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Will Wind Power Change Earth's Climate?

Posted by samzenpus on from the hot-breeze dept.

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?"

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  1. I'm disappointed by naer_dinsul · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm a little disappointed... I mean, I can understand CNN or NBC or someone like that getting a story before /., but NPR?

  2. Re:Probably not gonna be significant... by kfg · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No, I think the affect of the wind farms gets added to the account of the blocky buildings, the blocky buildings being the root cause of the existence of the wind farms.

    Two sides of the same coin.

    Of course, it's the people inside of them that are the root cause of the blocky buildings. Aha! Now we're getting somewhere. Isn't reductionism fun?

    You can only put so many rats in the same cage before things start going all to hell, especially if the rats keep using more and more energy per rattus.

    Oh well, there's always Soylent Green.

    KFG