{"id":1074,"date":"2009-06-23T12:25:54","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T17:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/72.233.35.22\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2009-06-23T12:25:54","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T17:25:54","slug":"wind-power-problem-acknowledgment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/?p=1074","title":{"rendered":"Wind Power Problem Acknowledgment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a concern about wind power that I rarely see acknowledged. My concern is what happens to the weather when you remove enough power from the wind to power the country. This <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/news\/2009\/06\/potential-in-the-wind-23-times-current-us-consumption.ars\">arstechnica article<\/a> is the first one I&#8217;ve seen in a while to mention this. <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/news\/2009\/06\/potential-in-the-wind-23-times-current-us-consumption.ars\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The last issue is that, at some level, putting this many turbines in place will undoubtedly change the dynamics of the lower atmosphere, with results that are probably difficult to predict.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It also provides a key number, which I&#8217;ve been lacking. That number is, that the wind power over the US, in the gross sense holds 23 times the current energy use. This ignores issues of efficiency and distribution. Everyone seems to always claim that what we&#8217;ll harvest from wind is a drop in the bucket, but even if 1\/3 of only our power came from wind, it is still a lot. I don&#8217;t consider 1\/69th of the energy in the atmosphere above the whole country to be a drop in the bucket. I&#8217;m just happy someone is acknowledging this problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a concern about wind power that I rarely see acknowledged. My concern is what happens to the weather when you remove enough power from the wind to power the country. This arstechnica article is the first one I&#8217;ve seen in a while to mention this. The last issue is that, at some level, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1078,"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions\/1078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}