<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">And the cities we have built? the changes have already been made in some places.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 22, 2024 at 5:45 PM Rusty Carruth via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Matthew Crews had an interesting reference, which I skimmed. Apparently <br>
there is a 6% change in <stuff> a non-trivial distance downwind from the <br>
wind farm. If my skimming was accurate, that was measured difference, <br>
but the simulation apparently was similar. (But now we've gotten beyond <br>
my skimming powers - there's a LOT of info in that reference!)<br>
<br>
On 6/21/24 18:57, George Toft via PLUG-discuss wrote:<br>
> Pump up the noise!<br>
><br>
> Whereas megawatts of power is being removed from the kinetic energy of <br>
> the wind, how much of the total is it? How wide is the wind, and how <br>
> high, compared to the size of the wind farm? The windmills remove some <br>
> fraction of a percent. I think this qualifies as "a gnat's fart in a <br>
> hurricane" worth of difference... unless you have some references to <br>
> support your assertion?<br>
><br>
> Regards,<br>
><br>
> George Toft<br>
><br>
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