From: Damien Broderick (thespike@earthlink.net)
Date: Fri Jan 31 2003 - 15:46:18 MST
Rafal Smigrodzki mixes km and miles:
> ### The total land area of the US is 9,158,960 sq km. It would be easy to
> use a million square miles for windfarms.
I wonder if anyone has modeled the effect of all these large humming
energy-sucking things on weather patterns. Maybe it's a drop in the wind
bucket, but maybe not. (I dare say today's electricity generators pumping
waste heat into the sky or water might already have equivalent effects, on a
more localized basis.) Maybe, if there *is* an impact, it could be used, via
clever placement, to direct weather patterns to some small extent?
Damien Broderick
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