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Across America, clean energy plants are being banned faster than they're being built
(www.usatoday.com)
this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2024
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I had my conservative professor uncle tell me we can't use windmills because "they use up all the wind."
imagine having to explain to your elders that wind isn't some finite resource.
All that precious wind we need for top soil erosion
Wind is finite, and there has actually been research done to estimate the impact slower winds would have (a few degrees iirc), it's just that this is massively offset by the pros of using wind.
no, wind is not a finite resource. it's produced by the heating and cooling of the earth. Wind turbines aren't doing anything to stop the sun from coming up and going down.
Seriously? What Facebook University source did you get that from?
What else exactly did he think we needed wind for anyway?
Hate to break it to you but wind is a finite resource, it's unlikely that earths inhabitants would ever saturate it -it is still quite possible just excessively unlikely.