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[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[3rdcoastislander]

“Wind power is already one of the worst options in the renewables market. Wind is unreliable, and the unreliability of energy production causes numerous problems for distribution.”

Not to mention how terrible they look at night. Lighting up the night sky like a Christmas tree with a non stop coordinatied blinking.

[BillM]

Energy and Work are both transferred from the air to the windmill. This will result in the air slowing and cooling locally. The slower air will then be heated by surface contact and radiation. It will stay over the site for a longer period because it has been slowed. This will cause the local temperature to rise, but the effect is very localized

[Brilliant]

Of course. It reduces the circulation of air. How can it not cause greater disparities in temperature?

[sickoflibs]

RE :”Wind power is already one of the worst options in the renewables market. Wind is unreliable, and the unreliability of energy production causes numerous problems for distribution. The manufacture and maintenance of the windmills requires a lot of energy, costs a lot of money, and creates a lot of waste, although perhaps not as much as Solyndra left behind. The blades kill hundreds of thousands of birds a year already, and any expansion will make that destruction much worse.
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Of course, the rise in temperature might be beneficial. No one has shown that even if a warming period occurs naturally or artificially that the overall impact will be relentlessly negative. At one time, most of Greenland was used for farming and habitation, a period that lasted a few centuries until global cooling eventually covered most of it in ice. However, if the wind-farm advocates argue that warming is good for the environment, it negates the stated need to build expensive and inefficient wind farms in the first place”

Politics trumps the laws of physics ping!

Under GWB my Republican neighbors used to preach to me about the benefits of windmills. Not knowing anything allowed them to imagine an untapped source of unlimited free energy for us that would make all our lives better. Who wouldnt want that ? Look how ethanol worked out. I noticed there were no windmills on his property.
He is less trusting with Obama as POTUS, fortunately.

A sucker is born every minute and then he votes.

[KarlInOhio]

At one time, most of Greenland was used for farming and habitation, a period that lasted a few centuries until global cooling eventually covered most of it in ice.

Bzzzt! wrong. During any time when people where there it was ice covered. There was just a time during the medieval warm period when the coasts were a little more hospitable than now and some cattle and a few crops could be raised, but it was never a temperate region in human history.

[Moltke]

The results, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, showed a warming trend of up to 0.72 degrees Celsius per decade in areas over the farms, compared with nearby regions without the farms.

I'm waiting for the first "journalist" to point out that the warming will then be 7.2 °C over the next century - and a whopping 72 °C over the next millenium! (Luckily "journalists" have trouble with math, so multiplication by 10 is too difficult for them.)

[NoLibZone]

Lobs oppose all forms of energy.

Sen Feinstein sued to stop solar farms in order to protect a turtle.

[Haiku Guy]

Next time you are in wine country, check out the Wind Machines.

The purpose of these windmills is not to generate electricity. In fact, they are powered by electic motors, and their purpose is to disturb the airflow over the vinyard to keep the ground level warmer at night.

They have been using these things out in California for as long as I can remember, so at least thirty years. This is not exactly a newly discovered phenomenon.

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[Reeses]

The manufacture and maintenance of the windmills requires a lot of energy, costs a lot of money, and creates a lot of waste

Money is a pretty honest indicator of how much total energy something uses. If it costs more, it uses more energy and has more of an impact on the environment. Cheaper is greener.