Mapping Wind Energy as Art

31 Mar, 2012

The live wind mapEngineers Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas from Google have pro­duced as astound­ing per­sonal art project called the Wind Map. It is a live visual demon­stra­tion of wind pat­terns in the United States.

According to their web­site, “Surface wind data comes from the National Digital Forecast Database. These are near-term fore­casts, revised once per hour. So what you’re see­ing is a liv­ing por­trait. And for those of you chas­ing top wind speed, note that max­i­mum speed may occur over lakes or just offshore.”

If any­one still har­bors doubts about the use­ful­ness of wind as an energy source, this map should allay them.

Below is a video cap­ture of the map in action. Click here to visit the live site.

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