[Usagi_yo]

I never see anybody mention wind degradation. The laws of thermodynamics always apply. You can’t get something for nothing.

Maybe by altering wind patterns or sapping the strength from the wind we’ll inadvertently cause localized weather catastrophes which progress into regional then continental and finally world wide.

Wind is not an infinite resource.

[cripplecreek]

Actually I read something about that a while back.

Its certainly not magic. Its just a matter of energy conversion from one form to another and the more windmills you have you get diminishing returns downwind.

[Scrambler Bob]

I agree.

And solar farms, too. What are the (unintended) consequences of interrupting the heat of the sun impacting the earth?

I have been waiting for someone to do the calculations.

Until they do, I will make a forecast based on my estimates:
We will all die.

[Pearls Before Swine]

I never see anybody mention wind degradation. The laws of thermodynamics always apply. You can’t get something for nothing.

I've wondered if widespread use of tidal power would eventually slow down the moon's rotation around the earth, myself.

[Ben Ficklin]

I’ve wondered if widespread use of wind power would eventually prevent the sun from heating the earths surface.

[Osage Orange]

Sapping the strength from the wind?

I'm not totally sure....but that sound's like some of the left's nonsense.

Someone tell me I'm wrong.

[Vanders9]

Good point re wind degradation.

[Smokin' Joe]

I have mentioned it, here. One would think sapping the very wind currents of energy which distribute solar energy from the equator toward the poles would cause impaired thermal mixing, resulting in greater differences in barometric pressure in airmasses, and more severe weather.

[grania]

You refer to the "butterfly effect" of chaos theory, which as an example is if a butterfly flaps its wings on the west coast, the small changes it creates become greater over time and occurance, and can create a storm by the time it reaches the east coast. Or something like that.

These aren't just the occasional wooden windmills, They're huge metal turbines, often in groupings. They kill birds. Could they be one factor in weather weirdness?

I'm not convinced about fracking being good for the environment. Same problem, they're causing small relatively small changes surrounding the fracking site, but does that create even greater problems over distance and time?

So many questions, so few answers.

[Brett66]

If any change occurs to wind patterns it will be blamed on global warming and then we might agree to whatever tax or freedom-robbing idea they come up with to solve it.

Government is responsible for any changes in climate now, it’s up to them to create perfection in the climate through destruction of our freedoms.