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Wind Turbines.?

Governments in england are saying they want to build wind turbines out to sea where it is aparently windiest. What i've been thinking though, in geography we've been learning about hurricanes, and one of the things we learnt is that hurricane produce like million of megawatts of energy or something. So what i thought is why don't government build these wind turbines near hurricane prone zones? Make a use of all these natural disasters, convert them into energy! If a hurricane produces so much energy why don't we try and obtain that energy, make hurricane have some pro's and not just destructive cons. What do you think?

Public Comments

1. Easier said than done!
2. ... because of the destructive cons - the wind turbines are not engineered (as of yet) to withstand hurricanes... (much like oil rigs in the gulf of mexico getting destroyed by the waves and winds), and not ever KNOWING the true track of what a hurricane will be it is hard to put them out there and could cost alot of money with little production. . but this is a great question none the less.