RonM wrote: > I wouldn't think that wind turbines would have a significant impact on > weather patterns as a function of slowing down the wind. It would take > truly vast arrays of turbines to do this. I tried some cursory searches > and couldn't find anything on the topic, although there is lots of > discussion on other impacts, e.g. land use, effects on birds and bats, > health impacts on people, etc. > > The albedo of solar panels is a different matter. The Superfreakenomics > people have suggested that the low albedo of solar panels results in > more heat energy being trapped with a potential global warming impact. > The analysis of this claim that I've seen suggests it's not true, see > for example > http://www.quora.com/Do-solar-panels-make-global-warming-worse-by-storing-heat.
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