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> Part of the concern for renewable energy folks is that you could argue that God is arranging for more coastal property

Not really though, the overall coastline length will shrink so assuming constant coastal property size, the number will go down not up.

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Climate change will make climates in parts of the globe more extreme though, no? Is that beneficial to wind power?

No. More extreme = less consistent, and likely too violent, these are not things you want for wind power.

You want consistent wind within the efficiency band of your turbines. Wind spikes are not a good thing, best case your turbines go into protection (they brake and the blades are feathered), worst case they're on fire. Significant gusts also increase wear of the blades, aging them prematurely and increasing the risk of catastrophic failure.

what about offshore wind farms? More water wouldn't be "so bad". haha. Plus, there was a cool idea about how they could be use in mass to mitigate hurricanes' strength to some degree but I'm not sure how feasible that is

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