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To: reaganaut1

This is not prudent, tearing down a dam today for the promise of wind tomorrow. Everybody knows that global warming is decreasing the amount of wind available for wind farms. And, as we add more and more windmills, we will use up this natural resource.


3 posted on 06/12/2009 5:53:49 AM PDT by C210N (A patriot for a Conservative Renaissance!)
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To: C210N

People without a decent foundation in engineering won’t get the idea of “using up the wind”.

It comes down to the basic concept of energy transfer (and inefficiencies and loss). The whole reason that wind turns turbines is that it has energy in it - its motion is energy.

When part of that energy is used/captured to turn a turbine, multiples of that energy captured is lost in the wind itself, slowing it down, changing weather patterns.


4 posted on 06/12/2009 5:56:33 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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