Warming the earth?
I suppose one could claim that my home heating system is warming the earth, or that when I smoke a cigar I am warming the earth.
But the earth knows.
ML/NJ
Questionable.
Turbines generally extract energy from the fluid passing through them, cooling it.
just proved researchers and experts don ‘t know jack.....
Sounds like a 6th grade science project.
Unless the first law of thermodynamics has been repealed (conservation of energy), even if there may be some localized increase in temperature where the wind turbines are, there would have to be some equivalent amount of cooling downstream.
If anything the net effect should be some very slight cooling, since some of the kinetic energy of the wind is transformed into electric energy by the wind turbines. Eventually though even the electric energy generated by the wind will be reconverted to heat as the electricity generated runs fridges and ovens and laptops and...
Bottom line there should be no global temperature effect by the operation of wind turbines.
As if we can actually change the temperature of the planet with a bunch of fans!
The arrogance of man is breath taking..... the ignorance is painful.
I think in this case that “Warming the Earth” really means “Warming the Dirt”
They distort the jetstream is my latest theory.. talk about man-made or man-assisted global varming. wow. Ted kennedy knew if they built wind farms off cape cod , we were all toast.
good thing the Pacific NW has backup.. ;-]
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meanwhile
BPA orders NW wind farms to curtail production
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/04/30/state/n131505D31.DTL
Portland, Ore. (AP) — The Bonneville Power Administration twice ordered Pacific Northwest wind farms to cut production in recent days because it has a surplus of power from hydroelectric dams.
The agency, which manages much of the power grid in the Northwest, confirmed it issued the orders during the early morning hours of Sunday and Monday, when demand is low.
The action rekindles a dispute from last year, when the agency curtailed wind turbines because the water from a large mountain snowpack left the region with more hydropower than the electrical grid could handle.
Heat causes wind.
Wind allows the heat to dissipate
Walls of Wind Generators slow down the wind, allowing additional heat build up.
It is so simple a concept that the “So called” Intelligentsia can’t grasp that simple concept.
Additionally, it kills birds who can’t see the propellers coming at them at 100 + mph.
Additionally, metal fatigues (always/eventually) and these things are monstrous and fail. In the process a broken propeller, takes out one or more of the others Million Dollar generators next to them.
It must be great to be “Smart” or (Think) you are “Smart”.
I wonder what the effect is over water.