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I've often wondered about a similar issue with wind power. Would enough wind turbines dampen the force of wind?
by nopelynopington 2y ago
I've often wondered about a similar issue with wind power. Would enough wind turbines dampen the force of wind?
- nprateem 2y agoIf a politician talks in front of a wind turbine, does it make a sound?
- padjo 2y agoOn a local level they absolutely do, in a wind farm one turbine can shadow another and reduce its output significantly. It makes wind farm layout a tricky optimisation problem. On larger scales the impact is pretty minimal though, there’s so much energy spread over such a large area that significantly reducing it a global scale is not a concern.
- bee_rider 2y agoFundamentally, yes, right? For some definition of “enough.” Actually, after some quick googling (so, maybe someone actually knows better) it seems like this is an issue where there’s an active discussion? Maybe somebody actually involved in the field knows more. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2004JD005462 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2004JD00... https://esd.copernicus.org/articles/3/79/2012/esd-3-79-2012.html https://esd.copernicus.org/articles/3/79/2012/esd-3-79-2012.... But that came out in 2012. I bet you could find some other article citing it, as rebuttals. It seems a bit implausible to think we could somehow pull enough energy from the wind to really matter, but then again carbon based climate change also seemed a bit implausible so, I guess, who knows?