No, it’s asking a question about our knowledge of the scale and power of the devices and forces involved.

If it is a analog to wind turbines, the math will bear it out, but it’s a perfectly valid question to ask.

Exactly just a few decades ago CFC was a non issue, Lead caused no harm, smoking was good for health, and cocaine was a refreshing drink. Yet here we are again so full of ourselves that asking the question is unsettling.

So we should keep doing the known harmful power generation methods (coal) instead of experimenting with new methods (deep sea turbines) out of a diffuse fear of the unknown consequences?

It’s sad that this is such a common argument against progress. Where do people learn to think this way? Does it come from education? Failures in life?

Nobody said that.

The concern is that more information should be discovered about the effects, and that is usually done through experimentation.

> ”Where do people learn to think this way? ”

Where do people learn to create straw man arguments instead of actually replying to what was said?

Have you ever heard the saying:

"The grass is always greener on the otherside."

I believe that's where this line of thinking comes from.

Have you ever tried to change lanes because yours isn't moving, just to find that right after you change to your new lane it stops and your old lane picks up again? Man that sucks

Nopes move fast and break things. Only issue is that Earth is not a software system which can be fixed with upgrades.

There is a scale that they would. We are orders of magnitude away from that scale. It's an interesting line of thinking to imagine the scale required to significantly change the winds.

We’re arguing semantics but on a big enough scale they would eventually. That’s why you don’t just line up 100 of them directly next to eachother.

Agree that this is effectively arguing semantics, and it is taking energy from the wind. But the effect of each _is_ very small. There are definitely farms with >100 turbines close together. This one has >600 and has long runs of them close together. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alta_Wind_Energy_Center

while that one produces more electricity, this one has about twice as many turbines in close proximity: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Gorgonio_Pass_wind_farm