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To: "globalchange" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 10:27 AM
Subject: [Global Change: 1507] Re: Effect of wind turbines on the climate
>
>> 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.
>
> Thanks for the link, that's pretty comprehensive and much better than
> what I've found through googling. My reading of it was that the 0.1
> K / TW is a best estimate, but with a pretty wide range of
> uncertainty.
>
> Technophile as I am, and as alluded to in my reply to James Annan, if
> wind turbines could be used to significantly affect weather, I
> wouldn't automatically dismiss that as a negative.
You are correct. We do not know whether its side effects would
be bad or good. However we can be sure that it poses a potential
danger!
Cheers, Alastair.
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