One source of renewable energy often bandied about is wind power. It
seems some proponents would have "wind farms" all over the planet
harvesting the kinetic energy of air.
Given, however, the principle of conservation of energy, if we begin to
harness this energy and convert it to electrical energy on a sufficient
scale could we, in fact, disrupt weather patterns by removing so much
energy from the atmosphere?
I know I'm being a little facetious, and I suspect that we would have
to cover a large part of the earth's land mass with wind turbines
before we saw any appreciable impact on the total energy in the
environment. I just thought it was something interesting to
contemplate.
Dean
- posted 17 years ago