Wind Energy Development in the Caribbean

By  Dr. Emid Núñez Conde

Subtitle: Tales or Reality

Energy is an important issue for any nation in the world.

The oil energy source has its days numbered, either by scarcity, rising prices or a naval blockade.

Resorted need renewable energy sources, wind, water, biomass.

So the question was:

There are records of winds in the Caribbean region?

After starting a long search I found these two documents are in Digital Format:

1) http://www.wunderground.com/wundermap/

2) http://www.osti.gov/bridge/servlets/purl/971424-jwlI1r/971424.pdf

It is interesting that these two instruments, one of them is able to go to social media and the other is an old document just for esthetic.

                                                                                     

There is an infinite number of data on the internet but I asked an experienced data meteorologist and he said me that the winds are measured in the station of the U.S. federal government.

For me this is a incomplete data. But if we want to improve the Caribbean region where there are over 50 million people,  where there is power blackouts to ration to a scarcity population, over 50 percent their habitants in their household without income..

So even though these data are insufficient at least gives us a clue where to start the investigation.

Thanks to a map of social media. 

What you think?