This is another good one. http://www.ucalgary.ca/~keith/papers/66.Keith.2004.WindAndClimate.e.pdf
One of their findings is that you can get average regional perturbations (both positive and negative) of about 0.1 K / TW from wind farms. So if wind really were scaled to be a primary energy source in the future (e.g. 10+ TW [terawatt], in a world that may consume 30 TW by 2050), then you would have to start looking at its climate implications as well. However, 10 TW of wind power is still hundreds of times more than we have now, and is still likely to be better than the effects of the ever accumulating carbon dioxide that it would offset. -Robert Rohde http://www.globalwarmingart.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
