Sometimes, I picture a drive in the country (perhaps a few decades from now) where immense "farms" of wind turbines stretch for miles on both sides of the highway, kind of the way wheat does on the prairies, today.
Would this kind of a scenario gradually have some sort of an impact on the global climate? Technically, energy is being transferred from the atmosphere to the turbines. Would this not cause slower and slower wind speeds? Or maybe atmospheric temperature would drop? I suppose the general argument is that it eventually it gets transformed into heat somehow, and then released back into the atmosphere? I dunno, any experts here?
2006-09-26
16:55:54
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TrickMeNicely
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