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Re:The Way Humans Get Electricity Is About to Change by baakss on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @01:46PM (#9766321)
The scientific community does seem to be rethinking the environmental impact of wind energy at this point. Supposedly the drag created by windmills is enormous for the amount of energy they provide, so in order to take up a greater portion of our current energy needs, it would drastically harm the environment from essentially slowing down the wind. Local temperatures rise substantially, but there's meteorological effects beyond that that are not fully understood at this time. Here's a primer article on what's been found.

http://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2013/02/rethinking-wind-pow...

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Re:The Way Humans Get Electricity Is About to Change by nate_meurer on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @06:04PM (#9768154)
Do you have a citation for that? The link you provides says nothing about environmental harm from "slowing down the wind".
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Re:The Way Humans Get Electricity Is About to Change by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @03:09PM (#9766965)
I doubt it'd be more significant that planting trees, which is generally considered a good thing. Regardless of the wind effects. In fact slowing the wind is almost always a plus.
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