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More research needed it seems, but it hasn’t been ruled out.
By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~
The effect of lots of wind turbines on weather and climate is a small but active research area. Wind power converts wind energy into electricity, thereby removing that energy from the air.
The research issue of how taking a lot of energy out might affect weather or climate seems to have emerged as early as 2004. Studies range from the global climate impact down to the local effects of a single large wind facility.
Here is a nontechnical article on a key global climate scale paper in 2011: “Wind and wave farms could affect Earth’s energy balance“in New Scientist magazine, March 30, 2011. Must register to read here: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028063-300-wind-and-wave-farms-could-affect-earths-energy-balance/
Here is the seminal technical paper: “Estimating maximum global land surface wind power extractability and associated climatic consequences” by L. M. Miller, F. Gans, and A. Kleidon; Earth System Dynamics…
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Interesting. Even solar panels “affect/effect the weather” . The interception of energy from one place to another effects the weather. It’s like adding resistance to an electrical circuit. It effects the circuit, it is no longer as it was. It changes how the circuit operates. Can it be undone? No. The changing pattern forced new ways, it killed a few birds, changed the weather patterns, and changed the lives of those downwind. Even the animals moved away from the sources.
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Theoretical energy capture of windblades is barely above 50%. The typical high tip velocity blade is not usually able to reach 50% energy capture. The wind continues on, though turbulent for some miles. This drop in wind energy undoubtedly creates a “vacuum” for higher energy fronts to move in. But I can’t see that this effect is anything but local to installations.
There’s a legal aspect to what the effects of wind farms may be, but it’s mainly about weather affecting the wakes, not the other way round.
WIND TURBINE WAKES, WAKE EFFECT IMPACTS, AND WIND LEASES:
USING SOLAR ACCESS LAWS AS THE MODEL FOR CAPITALIZING ON WIND RIGHTS
DURING THE EVOLUTION OF WIND POLICY STANDARDS
Wind rights and access to natural wind flow raise important legal
issues, policy questions, opportunities, and financial risks for
landowners, their neighbors, and for wind facility developers. This is
particularly evident with respect to the phenomenon called wake
effect (downwind effect) that occurs between commercial upwind
turbines and downwind turbines.
https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1192&context=delpf [50 page pdf]
NB they do say:
For instance, turbines, particularly larger ones that are 1.5 to 2.0 MW or greater in size and situated in a multi-row block pattern, cause changes in the air in the upper atmosphere, particularly when a group of turbines are in relatively close proximity to one another.
jb says: “The wind continues on, though turbulent for some miles.” Not just turbulent; with a lot of injected vorticity. Could that lead to more tornadoes?
and once again, the Law of Unintended Consequences comes into play with lunk-headed fern fondlers’ idiot ideas for producing energy. They are mentally playing checkers while the universe is playing three-dimensional chess.
This sounds a bit over-optimistic…
WIND TURBINES COULD SECRETLY REVERSE AN UNEXPECTED EFFECT OF CLIMATE CHANGE — HERE’S HOW
According to our new research, one byproduct of deep-sea wind farming is that the foundations of these floating turbines could help reverse the damaging effects of climate change on such seas.
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Water flowing past the floating turbine foundations will generate wakes, causing the warm and cold layers to mix together. In fact, we recently published research showing the wake from foundations at least doubles the natural turbulent mixing within the region of an offshore wind farm.
https://www.inverse.com/science/wind-turbines-warming-seas
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Dream on…
Here is another thought. Particles in the air are supposed to increase rainfall. The construction of wind and solar farms and the roads needed to build and service them, could leave land exposed that had been covered by vegetation and more particles could be picked up by the wind which might increase rainfall. The wind could be more turbulent around the structures and the windmill blades spinning could create more turbulence.
In places where there has been much more rainfall, was there more rainfall upwind of the windmill and solar farms also, or just more downwind.
Y’all should have learned by now not to ascribe the ability to change weather to Man.
Sure, turbines et al disturb the wind and take some energy out of it. But understand that Man is a mite on a dog that the dog doesn’t even notice. Ce n’est rien.