What most don’t understand about solar or wind derived energy is that there is no free lunch. If you remove energy from the environment to channel it elsewhere, it will change the climate also. For instance, taking capturning sunlight and turning it into electricity keeps it from warming the area it would have normally. This will can the local environment with other consequences. Changing wind patterns by slowing wind to capture its energy also affects the environmnet where it occurs. What will be the consequences?
No matter how you generate or reroute energy, it will have environmental impacts. How serious, I couldn’t begin to say.
That example is not likely to cause any problems. The thermal storage of solar energy is far more affected by land use and natural factors. For example a parking lot would have a lot greater effect on the weather than an equivalent sized solar PV farm. Solar thermal might be a little different since it concentrates the heat, boils water and creates water vapor.
EGGSactly Batman. I just watched an eye opening documentary called: Windfall.
It was a shocker. Touched on all sorts of issues involving wind power that I never even considered.