Posted on 10/25/2022 9:17:02 AM PDT by aimhigh
Opponents of wind power have always known and been mocked, but now serious studies prove them right: Wind turbines can apparently really increase global warming. They may even trigger droughts (German business news, October 19, 2022).
The fact that wind turbines are environmentally friendly was previously considered almost undisputed by the general public. Some residents were only bothered by their noise and appearance. But that's probably not their biggest problem. The latest findings suggest that at least larger wind farms are heating up the climate regionally and thus increasing the risk of local droughts. Among other things, a study by ArcVera Renewables shows that the wind turbines inhibit precipitation in their area and increase the temperature. Both can lead to a drought. Thus, the interactions between a wind turbine and its surrounding air layers strongly affect the moisture and heat flows between the earth's surface and the atmosphere.
The wind turbines slow down the air flow as it hits the rotor and swirls it around as it leaves. This is a problem, especially for large wind farms. They remove moisture from the atmosphere and additionally heat the ground. The complex exchange of air creates turbulence, which dries out the surrounding fields and meadows. The physical process is called the wake effect, is particularly observed in summer and is now considered to be well documented with data. The wake effect increases with higher wind turbines and larger rotor blades. There are more studies on the subject. One was done by Harvard University meteorologists and they published it on ScienceDirect in 2018, entitled “Climatic impacts of wind power”. The climate in the vicinity of US onshore wind farms was examined. The Harvard researchers demonstrated that the overturning of natural temperature layers in the vicinity of the wind farms studied causes higher average temperatures and lower soil moisture. Accordingly, the turbine effect during the day moves cold air from higher air layers down and warmer air, including moist soil air, up. The opposite effect occurs at night. This significantly increases the average temperature two meters above the ground.
In 2019, the German press reported that the 1,300 offshore and 29,000 onshore wind turbines installed in Germany at the time had caused a temperature increase of 0.27 °C over a period of five years. The research in question came from the University of Wageningen in the Netherlands. The first US studies on the subject date back to 2004.
I have always thought sucking that much energy out of the atmosphere would have deleterious effects besides chopping the birds…
interesting....also...think about solar farms and upsetting mother natures soil/sun relationship with sun/sun.
Oh, the hughmanity.
*** The fact that wind turbines are environmentally friendly was previously considered almost undisputed by the general public.***
Yes, just ask all the eagles and birds they’ve slaughtered about how environmentally friendly they are.
I wonder how they’re going to spin that.
This is of course as much bs as carbon based global warming etc…
But it’s funny and should be used against the climate change cultists.
But migratory birds with a death wish really LOVE them!
What you said.
You would have thought that with so many “greens” believing in “the butterfly affect” that they would have naturally assumed large wind farms would alter air and temperature conditions on the ground. Maybe they did but feared saying anything so as to not spoil their “renewables” agendas.
If we built them from NE Texas over to and through Florida we could dry it out a bit and have outdoor air conditioning.
Imagine all the people we could save from AGW. Im starting a 501, there has to be grant money out there somewhere.
What causes wind?
Why, it’s the trees waving back and forth that make the wind blow!
Did you really not know that?
(j/k)
Awesome idea! Should be worth a $5 million grant to study that...at least!
Thanks for causing more problems than we already have stupid libtards
Ping!
In WA state, they put up a literal Fanguard on the lower hills and mountains between the desert of E Wa, and W Wa. Wouldn’t the effect of the warmer winds off of the drier half of the state, be pushed down onto the cooler ocean air, trapping the daytime warm temps, and preventing night time cooling. That would raise the daytime temperatures and make the climate warmer in theory.
Ever since they went to solar farms and turbine farms here, it doesn’t seem to cool off at night in the manner of my younger days. It is markedly different since they put these in.
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