Carey Fisher wrote:
> Herbert Graf wrote:
>   
>>  Wind is a WONDERFUL choice, but
>> it just doesn't work everywhere, and worse it's not a constant source of
>> power.
>>
>> TTYL
>>
>>   
>>     
> I wonder...  if you extract energy from the wind, then the wind contains 
> less energy, doesn't blow as hard/far.  What are the unintended 
> consequences of extracting energy from the wind?  Change in weather 
> patterns causing famine?  Is it really a "WONDERFUL" choice or is it 
> just another choice with attendent negative consequences?
>   
EVERYTHING has consequences:

TAXES cause otherwise honest people to become liars. CARS moving on the 
freeway cause the earth
to slow down or speed up ever so slightly. POWER DAMS prevent fish from 
swimming upstream.
MARRIAGE causes divorce. Even in our line of work, placing a meter into 
a circuit affects the actual circuit,
and prevents us from EXACTLY measuring our circuit.

All we can hope for is that the consequences are as innocuous as possible.

--Bob
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