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It doesn't say in the article but do they factor in that it is a redistribution? Wind is waste solar energy as airflow. So once you extract the energy and use i
by neilwilson 8y ago
It doesn't say in the article but do they factor in that it is a redistribution? Wind is waste solar energy as airflow. So once you extract the energy and use it you re-inject the heat elsewhere.
At the moment that is offset by reducing a carbon power plant, but if wind is used to cover power expansion then dont you just end up moving the wind to the heat islands over cities (say)?
- usrusr 8y agoIt says so in the article, but carefully hidden in plain view so that the reader is not likely to be distracted from the sensationalistic first glance message: whenever it talks about warming caused by wind installations it is explicitly qualified as local warming. People with an existing anti wind power bias will conveniently miss that detail. By the way, the numbers stated seem to be much lower than the differences in local temperature you would get by building a city, planting or harvesting a forest and so on.
- baxtr 8y agoI was wondering the same: we do terra forming since 10k years, deforest, farm, build cities etc. The effect of those should be an order of magnitude higher than wind installations... Am I wrong here?