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Wind power aplenty.
#295608 - 09/12/12 11:55 AM
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Re: Wind power aplenty.
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#295612 - 09/12/12 12:45 PM
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Nothing is free....What will that much energy removed from from the environment do to it? (I really don't know what percentage of wind energy would be removed...would it be significant?)
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> Nothing is free....What will that much energy removed from from the environment do to
> it? (I really don't know what percentage of wind energy would be removed...would it
> be significant?)
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Re: Wind power aplenty.
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#295624 - 09/12/12 05:20 PM
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i guess think of wind as electricity, and the generators as resistance. i suppose with enough resistance, we could cause changes in weather patterns.
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Re: Wind power aplenty.
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#295631 - 09/12/12 07:00 PM
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> i guess think of wind as electricity, and the generators as resistance. i suppose
> with enough resistance, we could cause changes in weather patterns.
I seem to recall reading somewhere that a large enough wind farm could disrupt the wind enough to cause very localized climate changes. Given that wind farms are often situated in rural areas where there are regular farms, I could see it being problematic. I highly doubt we could possibly build and place enough turbines to have a measurable impact on large scale weather patterns, though.
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Re: Wind power aplenty.
[Re: DMala]
#295635 - 09/12/12 08:42 PM
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> > i guess think of wind as electricity, and the generators as resistance. i suppose
> > with enough resistance, we could cause changes in weather patterns.
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> I seem to recall reading somewhere that a large enough wind farm could disrupt the
> wind enough to cause very localized climate changes. Given that wind farms are often
> situated in rural areas where there are regular farms, I could see it being
> problematic. I highly doubt we could possibly build and place enough turbines to have
> a measurable impact on large scale weather patterns, though.
No! They'll make the planet spin out of control! OMGWTFBBQ!
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Re: Wind power aplenty.
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#295636 - 09/12/12 09:05 PM
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> > i guess think of wind as electricity, and the generators as resistance. i suppose
> > with enough resistance, we could cause changes in weather patterns.
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> I seem to recall reading somewhere that a large enough wind farm could disrupt the
> wind enough to cause very localized climate changes. Given that wind farms are often
> situated in rural areas where there are regular farms, I could see it being
> problematic. I highly doubt we could possibly build and place enough turbines to have
> a measurable impact on large scale weather patterns, though.
It would probably have way less of an impact than a few skyscrapers grouped together. Sometimes I think we forget just how much energy we are dealing with in a typical weather system.
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