Wind farms make climate change WORSE: Turbines act

[Maxf1ex]

www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2137170/Wind-farms-link-rising-temperatures-detrimental-impact-wildlife-weather-say-scientists.htmlWind farms make climate change WORSE: Turbines actually heat up local areas



Might be fun to keep track of this one and see how it turns out in a hundred years or so.


(chuckle, guess we are going back to global warming)

[george1861]

Wind turbines spin in existing wind, don't see how that can cause warming vs a wind machine that creates artificial wind that is used to keep crops from freezing.

[Maxf1ex]

Not really sure just what (or how) they mean it. But any cable which carry power gets warmer the more power it carry. Much like the way a power transformer heats up with use.

Then metal poles do reflect the heat from sunlight. Plus less trees which produce shade allowing the ground to soak up more warmth from the sun.

And while I do think that added heat from wind farms is minor, so it the waste from a car. But when you start having hundreds of them it can add up.

From Link : ‘The temperature change could be due to the effects of the energy expelled by farms and the movement and turbulence generated by turbine rotors.‘These changes, if spatially large enough, may have noticeable impacts on local to regional weather and climate.’

But they warned that firm conclusions should not be drawn until more research had been carried out.