And the same is true
for scooters and
electric cars !
Massive wind farms
are said by some leftists
to be the “renewable”
energy source of the future.
But two Harvard scientists
found that the spinning blades
create more climate warming
than coal plants !
Wind turbines give off
more heat than any
fossil fuel energy
source currently
in use.
Published in
the journal Joule,
the paper
concluded that,
if all of the electricity
used in the U.S.
was suddenly
supplied only
by wind turbines,
the surface of
the continental
48 states
would warm by
+0.24 degrees Celsius,
greater than
the 0.1 degree C. global
emperature reduction
that climate alarmists
want to achieve by
“decarbonizing”
the U.S. electricity
sector.
“If your perspective
is the next 10 years,
wind power actually has
– in some respects –
more climate impact
than coal or gas,”
says David Keith,
a professor of
applied physics
and public policy
at Harvard, and
one of the study’s
two primary co-authors.
“If your perspective
is the next
thousand years,
then wind power is
enormously cleaner
than coal or gas,”
he added,
in a statement.
“Our analysis suggests that
– where feasible – it may make
sense to push a bit harder
on developing solar power
and a bit less hard on wind,”
Keith carefully noted
in an email about he
and his colleague’s
findings.
The study explains,
that when the
wind turbines extract
energy out of the air,
they effectively
slow down the wind,
which alters
“the exchange of heat,
moisture, and momentum
between the surface
and the atmosphere.”