The Wind
Bridget Kendall and guests Dr Max Platzer, Professor Chris Scott and Nathalie Miebach explore the wind's impact on earth, in space and in art.
Wind is all around us on earth and in a different form, out in space - a powerful force which shapes our environment, and which increasingly we are trying to tame and harness. It is also the stuff of myth and legend around the World.
With Bridget Kendall to explore some aspects of wind, Dr Max Platzer, the distinguished aerospace engineer, once involved in some of Nasa's most iconic space launches, but now focused on harvesting energy from the powerful winds of the world's oceans using a massive fleet of sailing ships with the ability to convert wind energy into hydrogen. Earth and space meteorologist Professor Chris Scott from Reading University tracks solar winds which arrive on Earth from space, probing how they affect us and explains new research linking wind with lightening. And, from Boston in the USA, artist Nathalie Miebach weaves extraordinary sculptures and musical compositions out of storm data she takes from weather stations.
(Photo: the art sculpture 'Noel Hurricane'. Credit: Nathalie Miebach).
