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Letter: Wind and weather

Published 6 July 2005

From Mike Taylor

Another slant on the energy problem: lots of people are lauding wind power as the way forward, but if we shift a major part of our energy requirement to wind, what effects will we have on weather systems? If you take energy out of the wind, you must alter that wind and this must eventually have an effect on the wind patterns that drive our weather. Why is no one studying this before we make a bad mess even worse?

Borough Green, Kent, UK

Issue no. 2507 published 9 July 2005

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