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Wind Farms Warming Texas
Discovery News ^ | April 29, 2012 | Eric Niiler

Posted on 04/29/2012 4:01:29 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

New research finds that wind farms actually warm up the surface of the land underneath them during the night, a phenomena that could put a damper on efforts to expand wind energy as a green energy solution.

Researchers used satellite data from 2003 to 2011 to examine surface temperatures across as wide swath of west Texas, which has built four of the world's largest wind farms. The data showed a direct correlation between night-time temperatures increases of 0.72 degrees C (1.3 degrees F) and the placement of the farms.

"Given the present installed capacity and the projected growth in installation of wind farms across the world, I feel that wind farms, if spatially large enough, might have noticeable impacts on local to regional meteorology," Liming Zhou, associate professor at the State University of New York, Albany and author of the paper published April 29 in Nature Climate Change said in an e-mail to Discovery News.

Analysts say wind power is a good complement to solar power, because winds often blow more strongly at night while solar power is only available during daytime hours. But Zhou and his colleagues found that turbulence behind the wind turbine blades stirs up a layer of cooler air that usually settles on the ground at night, and mixes in warm air that is on top.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.discovery.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: climatechange; environmentalism; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; greenreligion; texas; wind; windfarms; windmills; windturbines
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1 posted on 04/29/2012 4:01:37 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The title should be: “Green Energy Causes Global Warming.”


2 posted on 04/29/2012 4:03:56 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Free ThinkerNY
D'OH!

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3 posted on 04/29/2012 4:05:10 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Brilliant

These people aren’t going to be happy until we are all living in caves.


4 posted on 04/29/2012 4:05:15 PM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Another goofy liberal idea turns into a disaster. What a bunch of losers.


5 posted on 04/29/2012 4:05:30 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Dumb, dependent and Democrat is no way to go through life. - Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Just dang.


6 posted on 04/29/2012 4:06:32 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
THEOREM: Wind farms cause ACTUAL global warming.

COROLLARY: The universal law of unintended consequences never sleeps.

7 posted on 04/29/2012 4:08:15 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the sociopath.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I love so much about living in TX , but dang it all, last summer was beastly hot.........thanks greenies.......


8 posted on 04/29/2012 4:09:02 PM PDT by Kimmers (Fair isn't everybody getting the same thing, fair is getting what you need to be successful)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Wind Farms Warming Texas

That's a riot!
Bring back coal.

9 posted on 04/29/2012 4:09:36 PM PDT by libertarian27 (Check my profile page for the FReeper Online Cookbook 2011)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

But Zhou and his colleagues found that turbulence behind the wind turbine blades stirs up a layer of cooler air that usually settles on the ground at night, and mixes in warm air that is on top.

so we are talking about mixing of a couple hundred feet of

wait for it..... wait for it..... AIR

And the net difference to the planet is???


10 posted on 04/29/2012 4:11:10 PM PDT by calljack (Sometimes your worst nightmare is just a start.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Maybe, just maybe, it's time to relegate the enviro wackos to the dustbin of history...
11 posted on 04/29/2012 4:12:43 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Stop feeding the beast; spend money only with those who support traditional American values.)
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To: texasredhead8712; TexKat; TheOldLady; U-238; ValerieTexas; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; ...

Thanks Free ThinkerNY.


12 posted on 04/29/2012 4:13:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (FReepathon 2Q time -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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“...a phenomena that could put a damper on efforts to expand wind energy as a green energy solution.”

Don’t count on it. When so called scientists toss the scientific process into the trash by telling us that AWG is real beyond a doubt, logic and reason have nothing to do with it.


13 posted on 04/29/2012 4:18:28 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: Free ThinkerNY

A wind farm will essentially take energy (heat) from one area (where it is collected) and transport that energy (heat) to another area maybe hundreds or thousands of miles away.

Of course it changes local climate...


14 posted on 04/29/2012 4:20:09 PM PDT by babygene (Figures don't lie, but liars can figure...)
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To: MichaelCorleone
Unfortunately, the people responsible for “relegating” are the same enviro wackos.
15 posted on 04/29/2012 4:20:23 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: Free ThinkerNY; SwinneySwitch; Diddle E. Squat; deport; Ben Ficklin; zeugma; MeekOneGOP; ...

Local Warming Ping!


16 posted on 04/29/2012 4:20:48 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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"It shows that we need to think carefully about the unintended environmental consequences of any large-scale energy development," Dabiri said, "including green technologies."
Really?? Say it ain't so! This also applies to recycling.
17 posted on 04/29/2012 4:23:13 PM PDT by Clara Lou
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To: Lurker
These people aren’t going to be happy until we are all living in caves.
Living in caves, eating turnips, driving donkey carts and dying off in our 40s. That's what THEY want for US.
18 posted on 04/29/2012 4:23:23 PM PDT by samtheman ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ-4gnNz0vc)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Hahahahahahahaha


19 posted on 04/29/2012 4:23:32 PM PDT by MattinNJ (Romney? Really? Seriously?)
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Just in case there’s anybody in FR who hasn’t seen this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ-4gnNz0vc


20 posted on 04/29/2012 4:24:47 PM PDT by samtheman ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ-4gnNz0vc)
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