On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 07:47:34AM +0530, shiv sastry wrote: > 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
No, on several counts. Wind farms don't stop wind dead, nor can you build enough wind farms, and there's more than enough energy in the atmosphere to be enough for the entire humanity. Ditto applies to solar and albedo forcing, only more so. > 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 In 50 years there will be probably less wind farms than today. > commonplace when we are celebrating the fact that less carbon is going into > th air. Wind farms don't kill birds -- but the damn things kill sleep, if you live nearby. They're NOISY. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
