{"id":135016,"date":"2025-10-21T00:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T00:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/135016\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T00:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T00:46:07","slug":"wind-power-as-a-technosignature-on-m-dwarf-planets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/135016\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind Power As A Technosignature On M-dwarf Planets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Wind-Power-As-A-Technosignature.png\" alt=\"Wind Power As A Technosignature On M-dwarf Planets\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                                                            Alien Wind Power \u2013 Grok via Astrobiology.com                                                                                                    <\/p>\n<p>We suggest that the large-scale deployment of wind turbines on an M-dwarf planet could produce observable technosignatures.<\/p>\n<p>Motivated by observations of hypersonic wind velocities on WASP-127\u2009b, we note that the atmospheres of such planets could serve as vast reservoirs of energy for an extraterrestrial civilization.<\/p>\n<p>A large-scale deployment of wind turbines in a hypersonic environment would produce heated shock waves in the hypersonic stream, cause strong frictional heating from the rotation of the blades, and be a source of infrared radiation.<\/p>\n<p>We mention possible scenarios that could lead to the deployment of wind turbines on a gas giant and also note that similar features could exist on terrestrial M-dwarf planets.<\/p>\n<p>The idea that aerodynamic peculiarities could be a technosignature is worth keeping in mind as ground- and space-based exoplanet observations continue to improve.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.3847\/2515-5172\/ae13a7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Wind Power as a Technosignature on M-dwarf Planets<\/a>, Research Notes of the AAS (open access)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Astrobiology, SETI,<\/p>\n<p>                                                                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/keith_cowing.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA Space Station Payload manager\/space biologist, Away Teams, Journalist, Lapsed climber, Synaesthete, Na\u2019Vi-Jedi-Freman-Buddhist-mix, ASL, Devon Island and Everest Base Camp veteran, (he\/him) \ud83d\udd96\ud83c\udffb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alien Wind Power \u2013 Grok via Astrobiology.com We suggest that the large-scale deployment of wind turbines on an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[18,19,17,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-135016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-science"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}