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Re:Wind Energy Is One of the Cheapest, and It's Getting Cheaper by ams6110 on Monday September 04, 2017 @06:32PM (#15171249)
> we're just too miniscule to affect that in any meaningful way

Though this same argument is dismissed by those who support the idea that we're changing the weather by CO2 emissions.

Re:Wind Energy Is One of the Cheapest, and It's Getting Cheaper by fasquoika on Monday September 04, 2017 @10:35PM (#15172118)
You kinda took that out of context. "That" is "the amount of energy the sun radiates to the Earth's surface". That amount of energy 100% dwarfs anything the human race could ever hope to use
Re:Wind Energy Is One of the Cheapest, and It's Getting Cheaper by graphitezepp on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @08:42AM (#15174539)
Well dwarfs what we need before we start colonizing the galaxy.
Re:Wind Energy Is One of the Cheapest, and It's Getting Cheaper by flukus on Monday September 04, 2017 @09:13PM (#15171856)
> Though this same argument is dismissed by those who support the idea that we're changing the weather by CO2 emissions.

Our direct effect is minuscule, it just so happens that our efforts magnify the not so minuscule effect the sun has.

Re:Wind Energy Is One of the Cheapest, and It's Getting Cheaper by function_seven on Monday September 04, 2017 @06:55PM (#15171344)
In terms of wind energy, rotating mills are not going to have any measurable impact on wind energy or patterns.

But with CFCs, we clearly aren’t minuscule. We saw a hole in the ozone layer that opened when we used them, and is closing now that we’ve stopped.

For some things, we’re too minuscule, for others we’re not.

Re:Wind Energy Is One of the Cheapest, and It's Getting Cheaper by maxerickson on Monday September 04, 2017 @09:31PM (#15171909)
Who argues that human greenhouse gas emissions are minuscule?