shiv sastry wrote [at 07:47 AM 12/15/2007] :
Since my mind works in this manner, let me make an unsubstantiated and AFAIK currently unprovable assertion.
Accepting this hypothesis for the purpose of the discussion, exactly what is it you are recommending?
If enough countries in the world tap surface winds to meet most of their energy requirements, they will certainly alter surface wind patterns to an extent that is likely to have environmental consequences that nobody knows anything about. We will being to see the fallout perhaps 50 years after wind farms become commonplace when we are celebrating the fact that less carbon is going into th air.
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