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To: marstegreg

There have been windmills (fans) in orchards for DECADES to modify the tree temperatures. This really can’t be NEWS can it?


9 posted on 11/01/2012 1:46:22 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

There have been windmills (fans) in orchards for DECADES to modify the tree temperatures. This really can’t be NEWS can it?

I think the size and amount of these turbines(I have seen huge fields of hundreds of these things) have a much greater impact than a few small ones here and there. What is amusing is that they are combating the very thing they are causing. In all seriousness, this could be catastrophic to weather and wildlife. Read the article.


12 posted on 11/01/2012 1:55:14 PM PDT by marstegreg
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To: Paladin2
There have been windmills (fans) in orchards for DECADES to modify the tree temperatures.

Yep, the vineyards around here use them for frost protection regularly.

13 posted on 11/01/2012 1:56:43 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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