Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Harvey Ussery <huboxwood@earthlink.net>]

> One bright spot - here in NM the utilities are investing *big time* in wind
> generation - not PV. The cost and payback is realistic.   ~paul

Sounds great, but a nagging question comes up if we start generating a 
lot of electrical energy by tapping the wind--I'm not talking about 
individual or even community-scale systems, but truly massive wind farms 
meant to take over a big chunk of feeding the grid: So what are we doing 
when we generate electron flow with a wind turbine? We are sucking 
*energy* out of the *wind*. Read that last sentence again. Scale the 
process up sufficiently, and we are reducing wind energies over a wide 
geographic area. At what point (scale) do we start affecting weather 
patterns? Anybody know of any research/thought that's been given to that 
one?

~Harvey in northern VA
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