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On a global scale, wind energy harvesting has a miniscule effect: "should wind supply the world's energy needs it estimates energy loss in the lowest 1 km of th
by polymer 15y ago
On a global scale, wind energy harvesting has a miniscule effect: "should wind supply the world's energy needs it estimates energy loss in the lowest 1 km of the atmosphere to be ~0.007%, which would be an order of magnitude smaller than atmospheric energy loss from aerosol pollution and urbanization"[0]. Of course, the local effect of a large wind plant is different, but given the numbers above I would think it's still negligible.
[0] http://www.wse.ie/articles/how-much-wind-energy/index.php http://www.wse.ie/articles/how-much-wind-energy/index.php
- protomyth 15y agoI'm just a little worried about the tendency to put these things in the same states that raise most of the crops and what might be the weather change. Local changes could be problematic.