Posted on 04/30/2012 6:27:28 PM PDT by Kaslin
The kinetic energy lost downstream turns into heat.
Even a loon town in the NE area several years ago banned their outdoor
Christmas lights for the same reason.
Go figure. But H. L. Mencken (1880 1956), journalist magazine editor once said:
"[The news media] is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier". He went on to say:
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary".
For example:
A "cooling fan", as used on many types of equipment, adds energy to the fluid flowing through it, warming it, but nonetheless helps to cool equipment by increasing the effectiveness of heat transfer across a thermal gradient.
The atmosphere of the planet loses a lot of heat to space. How effectively heat gets carried from the surface of the planet and out into space varies depending upon many factors. Conceptually, things which reduce the intermixing of different-temperature volumes of air would, all else being equal, likely reduce the effectiveness of the heat transfer. Of course, there are so many interacting feedback mechanisms that it would be impossible to honestly identify the exact balance of effects caused by any particular action.
Yes, a cooling fan adds energy to a fluid, but that’s not the same as a turbine, which extracts energy from a fluid.
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