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Re:Japan tested a giant turbine that generates electricity u... by Dylan16807 on Saturday June 04, 2022 @05:02PM (#31625025)
The reason COâ‚‚ emissions matter so much is that they accumulate over time.

> There seems to have been a lot of extreme weather in recent years. Could it be because harvesting energy from the wind alters weather patterns? A lot of people would rather just blame it on global warming than ask a question that might expose a flaw in our plans to wean ourselves off of fossil fuels.

Do you have anything other than wild speculation? Because in most cases slowing down air currents should calm the weather.

And of course this has been asked!

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Re:Japan tested a giant turbine that generates electricity u... by salawat on Sunday June 05, 2022 @01:14PM (#31632887)
Slowing down air currents doesn't necessarily decrease extreme weather. Air currents are a means of energy diffusion. Stopping up that process is more likely to just exacerbate local maxima. Stabilized local maxima can be useful for energy extraction while being quite inconvenient for just about everything else.

Energy races to heat. Heat tries to diffuse. If it can't, it's still there. Moving it still costs more energy.

Entropy always wins.

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