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Will Wind Power Change Earth's Climate?
lommer writes "The Globe and Mail is currently running an article on a recent wind power study. A group of Canadian and American scientists has modelled the effects of introducing massive amounts of wind farms into North America and have come up with surprising results. While still having only 1/5th the impact of fossil fuels, wind power will still adjust the earth's climate with the equatorial regions warmed while the arctic grows colder. Could this be a boon for the nuclear lobby, or is this just further evidence for a diversified power-generating system?"
Wow! so we can affect temperature by building wind farms.
Just hope they will build a lot of these north of my town so we can stop that freezing north wind.
This means it will reverse global warming.
Have big windmill/fans pointing at the nuclear plants so the radioactive steam goes AROUND my house and hits Indiana.
They won't notice.
the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur - A.N. White
I know that on a cold day, when I emit a little wind, my midsection gets warmer.....
So does this mean the United States is going to start invading windy countries?
Don't listen to him ! It's just this kind of thinking which is keeping people from investing in my perpetual motion machine !
Be quick about it, OK? OH, and when you kill yourself, do it in a forest by yourself so that you can be converted into plant material with the minimum of impact.
We can't get all of that last fifth of the 5 fifths -- though you worthless schmuck should do your part ASAP and stop ruining the environment with each extra breath or moment that you block the wind.
Thanks!
A firewall can not protect you from yourself. Turn off what you do not need. Do not use the firewall to do your work.
would it help if they make the turbines spin the other way?
Or else you'd know all we have to do is plug a couple cables into Daryl McBride and, combined with an advanced form of fusion, we can have an infinite self-renewing energy source.
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Then again, perhaps it wouldn't be such a bad idea to at least try
Quite an amazing piece of gear; if you ever get the chance to get up close to one, take it.
take it? and where the heck am I gonna go with a big noisy windmill sticking out of my pocket?
Wow, agreeing with the Bush admisitration, brave soul, I give you 5 minutes before you are modded troll, offtopic, overrated.
a) Is that a wind-powered generator in your front pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
-OR-
b) You know, a big, noisy, wind-propelled generator in one's front pocket would go perfectly with the big, noisy, wind-generating repeller that everyone carries around near their back pocket.
1. Walk to Taco Bell.
2. Buy 2 bean burritos.
3. Walk home.
4. Wait 8-16 hours.
5. Energy in the form of gas.
6. Sell gas to power company.
Repeat steps 1-6.
I'm sorry Mr. Newton, but in THIS universe we have friction...
"Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel." - A.B.
Wow. You're a bright one. Bright like that energy-creating sun of ours.
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Cluelessness concerning the laws of thermodynamics is grounds for revokation of your
Given a choice between free speech and free beer, most people will take the beer.
Nucular?? Is that you, George?
Put overweight people on generator exercise bikes.
You forgot about human power. Think if we wired those treadmills in health clubs all over the U.S. to the grid. I would love to know that some middle aged heath nut is paying monthly dues to make my porn machine run.
You can't win
Second Law of Thermodynamics:
You can't even break even
Thrid law of thermodynamics:
In the long run, you're going to lose your pants (skirt).
But would not the availability of free energy eventually cause people to use huge amounts of energy? Sooner or later we would have the new problem of efficiently radiating all that extra heat (the energy would turn into heat sooner or later) off this planet.
Ah, that's easy. Giant fusion powered air conditioning units.
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Actually, the worse problem is that if they are all facing to the west, it will slow down the rotation of the earth.
NO, silly! You attach it to the handlebars of your bicycle.
"I'm not impatient. I just hate waiting." - My Dad
And the fact that the economy will be hurt is BS
I beg your pardon, but do you have any idea of the income my company is expecting from global air conditioning sales once the planet really starts to heat up? Sheesh, can you stop only thinking about yourself for just one moment.
The problem with "free" is that there is no free lunch. The problem with Thermonuclear fusion is that it is producing HEAT. Even used to produce electricity, the end result (at my computer or light bulb or whatever) is HEAT.
That HEAT changes the environment, because it is a net addition of energy. The earth must dissipate that energy (presumably the atmosphere losing heat into space) or the environment will still be changing.
Hmm... maybe we could use wind turbines to remove some of this energy from the air?
Slashdot should just create a -1 Republican moderation.
You sound like an environmentalist, but you are only trying to protect Linux mascots' habitat. Admit it.
Table-ized A.I.