Apologies as I meant to include this, but I used the wrong reply-to address, which bounced it from PLUG.

Here is the article.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-02089-2

I don't know if the wind power we are capable of collecting is sufficient enough to alter weather patterns, but there are more issues we need to think about than simply NIMBY effects and impacting bird migration routes.

-Matt

On 6/22/24 4:56 PM, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss wrote:
And the cities we have built? the changes have already been made in some places.

On Sat, Jun 22, 2024 at 5:45 PM Rusty Carruth via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
Matthew Crews had an interesting reference, which I skimmed. Apparently
there is a 6% change in <stuff> a non-trivial distance downwind from the
wind farm.  If my skimming was accurate, that was measured difference,
but the simulation apparently was similar.  (But now we've gotten beyond
my skimming powers - there's a LOT of info in that reference!)

On 6/21/24 18:57, George Toft via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Pump up the noise!
>
> Whereas megawatts of power is being removed from the kinetic energy of
> the wind, how much of the total is it? How wide is the wind, and how
> high, compared to the size of the wind farm? The windmills remove some
> fraction of a percent. I think this qualifies as "a gnat's fart in a
> hurricane" worth of difference... unless you have some references to
> support your assertion?
>
> Regards,
>
> George Toft
>
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