If you did knock back the wind, then you'd knock back the waves on the
sea or lakes etc. So anyone trying to use wave energy would have a
problem with it.

However, being able to enough energy out of the wind to have any
effect is pretty unlikely in the short term.

RP

On 01/09/06, Herbert Graf <mailinglist3@farcite.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 20:50 -0400, 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?
>
> It's a good question. I'd expect that to have any noticeable impact the
> amount of wind generation would have to be on a scale many magnitudes
> larger then our power needs would probably be.
>
> Suffice it to say that it's very likely we could extract a good deal of
> power from wind before that becomes an issue.
>
> TTYL
>
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