Yeah, but they look terrible. There is no better way to rape the mountain ridges than to cover them with these nasty looking devices. It amazes me that the environmentalists are not going bananas over what is happening. Once, they could be counted on to make an effort to keep wilderness as it is, now they are playing dead. One day there will be an enormous back lash against windmills and they will start to go away.
I suppose that going away would be actually relocating most of them off shore or in places where no one cares about maintaining nature. Who would want to look out and see these in the yard next door, or on what was once beautiful mountainsides? Everything has a price. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Eric Walker <[email protected]> To: vortex-l <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Feb 27, 2013 10:34 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Rethinking wind power 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
