Real-time Wind Resources

Here’s a fun little tool – a real-time wind chart for the continental U.S.  To me, it validates a couple of ideas that I hear often:

• When the wind isn’t blowing at point A, the chances are much more likely that it will be blowing at point B.

• The Southeast U.S. really doesn’t have good wind (or other good renewable) resources.

• We tend to over-estimate the wind resources in which we live.  We often think that we consistently have 20 MPH winds, and, in almost all cases, this is not true.

Again, a cool little site.