Raymond J. Henry wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
> But you can put in enough wind farms to supply the US's electrical >> needs.
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> Has anyone attempted to determine the results of windmill farms?
> Science tells us that to create energy from the wind, we take that
> power out of the wind. If we intercept this force enough, what changes
> are we imposing on nature?
Wind is merely one of nature's way of equalizing the variations in solar thermal input across land and sea.(Hurricanes are another!) I seriously doubt we humans could interfere enough with winds to cause climatic changes.
> Not saying we *shouldn't*, but we've already gone way down the
> destructive road with other sources, maybe we need to do some research
> before figuring that wind-generated power is "free"....
>
The environmentals are now against windfarms;they kill too many birds.
Sen.Ted Kennedy (an environmentalist-supporter)is against them now,seeing as they want to put one off-shore from his Hyannisport compound.(FAR,far off-shore!) B-)