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What toll are all these wind farms going to take on global weather patterns if they continue to multiply?
by xwdv 5y ago
What toll are all these wind farms going to take on global weather patterns if they continue to multiply?
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- eloff 5y agoBasically rounded down to none. While we continually underestimate our unintended impacts, I don't believe that's the case here. Even if we sourced 100% of the world's energy needs from wind it would be slowing a miniscule fraction of the total atmospheric movements. Think of the three dimensional space occupied by turbines versus the vast volume of air with no turbines.
- jandrese 5y agoI'm thinking they may have a double impact on combating global warming. Not only do they displace fossil fuel emissions, but they pull excess energy out of the atmosphere. However, the scale they operate at is a rounding error on a global scale.