Turbine company knows which way the wind blows at your house

13.06.2012
That breeze you feel? It's more than just a pleasant sensation on your face.

We don't often think of it, but the wind represents the heating and cooling cycle of 5.5 quadrillion tons of air by a medium-sized star about eight light-minutes away. Heated air rises, and cooler air meanders, rushes, or otherwise moves in to fill the void.

While our atmosphere is fluid and dynamic, the shape of the land and the water over which the air moves is decidedly less so, which eventually creates patterns of wind and weather that can be predictable ... if you have enough data.

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Knowing the wind patterns is more than being thorough about the weather. It's also critical to optimizing wind energy production, which is growing in global capacity by double-digit percentages each year.

According to the , by the end of 2010, the power of the wind provided 430 terawatt-hours of electricity to the nations of the world, more than enough to completely power the United Kingdom, the sixth largest economy in the world.