On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 5:22 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: ...one can only hope! However the truth is that most of the energy we use is > returned to the environment as heat, so taking it out as wind power and > putting > it back as heat would probably have very little net effect. > Regards, >
Also, I have a hard time imagining that turbines are going to have all that much affect on weather patterns. Imagine a model of the surface of the earth, sort of like the little model train terrains with the fake green grass and the small trees. My guess is that most of the volume of the air is moving through a space equivalent to several meters above the model terrain. So the amount of energy involved in moving it is quite large. The wind turbines are tiny little things that plink around on the surface, not doing a whole lot one way or the other in the big scheme of things. They are sort of making the terrain a little fuzzier, in an aerodynamic sense. Eric
