Wind Map of US Will Blow You Away

Hugh Pickens writes writes "Talk about visualizations. Ever wondered what the wind would look like if you could see it in action from above? A new project posted online by a pair of Google computer scientists, called simply Wind Map, has to be seen to be believed. "It can be quite hypnotizing to watch the gusty trails blast across the American continent, skitter over the Sierras, get roughed up by the Rockies, and whoosh over the great plains on its way to Canada," writes Chris Taylor. Wind Map is the brainchild of Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg, the co-leaders of Google's 'Big Picture' visualization research group in Cambridge, Mass. Wind patterns are constantly changing, of course, which is why the Wind Map designers have also given us a moving-image gallery of previous blustery days."

Comments

Yeah, but...

[echusarcana]

Its a pretty cool app, too bad wind is a stupid way to make electricity.

Re:Yeah, but...

[NeutronCowboy]

Actually, even your useless metric of comparing a country the size of the US to much smaller European states is wrong. Germany beats the pants off of the US in solar generation as does Italy, wind power per square mile or per capita is pityful compared to the rest of the world, and biomass statistics include wood burning, which can be a very bad idea.

Conservatives: where facts are created from the gut.

A few days behind google plus...

[damn_registrars]

This was posted on there on Wednesday or so. Usually slashdot is desperately trying to copy facebook, but this time slashdot is a few days behind google plus.