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Caveat: I'm pro wind if it gets us off fossil fuels. It's better than doing nothing and perfect cannot be the enemy of good enough (for now).
That said: in the late 1890s and early 1900s, scientists already knew about fossil fuels and greenhouse gasses and they didn't speak up loud enough.
Take the idea of wind energy and project it's growth a hundred years. From a pure physics perspective, when harvesting wind energy, you must steal kinetic energy from the wind. 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. Or some far future anime sci fi outcome where we've captured 100% of the kinetic energy of the atmosphere and no air is moving except through turbines...
This turbine is very cool. What else should we be doing to prevent wind power from turning into the next generation's climate disaster?
Wow. It’s great that you thought of that!! Thankfully, scientists almost as smart as you have already created a model that specifically keeps us from stealing all the wind. It’s somewhere around 60% and under and we’ll be fine.