{"id":731,"date":"2008-09-25T11:53:13","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T15:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=731"},"modified":"2008-09-25T09:49:54","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T13:49:54","slug":"can-wind-power-turbines-affect-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=731","title":{"rendered":"Can Wind Power Turbines Affect Weather?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve wondered about this before, but couldn’t figure out how.\u00a0 It could remove some of the thrust of the wind and have … some sort of effect.\u00a0 Perhaps seeds don’t get blown as far or something like that.<\/p>\n

Well, this Q&A column<\/a> from the NY Times notes that one study suggests that the turbines \/ windmills could force the agitation of moister ground air with drier air higher up to produce a drying effect at ground level.\u00a0 That’s probably not a big deal if your windfarm is in the desert southwest, and maybe not even if it’s out at sea.\u00a0 But it makes it less likely you’ll want to toss up windmills in the middle of fields in the country’s breadbasket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve wondered about this before, but couldn’t figure out how.\u00a0 It could remove some of the thrust of the wind and have … some sort of effect.\u00a0 Perhaps seeds don’t get blown as far or something like that. Well, this Q&A column from the NY Times notes that one study suggests that the turbines \/ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,63,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-energy","category-environment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}