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The World’s Largest Wind Turbine Has Been Switched On (www.iflscience.com)
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The World’s Largest Wind Turbine Has Been Switched On::It’s turbo time.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

What happens when we're harvesting say, 1% of all the kinetic energy of the atmosphere. Or 10%. Surely that will have major weather and climate effects.

What else should we be doing to prevent wind power from turning into the next generation's climate disaster?

Stop making assumptions, don't jump to conclusions. Do the science, gather data, apply math.

Until then, we can at least appreciate global warming means an increase in atmospheric energy or wind speed and availability. We should rather be worried about storms damaging turbines.