Global Environmental Effects

Recently, scientists have begun exploring the global climactic effects of large scale wind power generation. An article from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America titled The influence of large-scale wind power on global climate demonstrated that huge quantities of wind power (approximately 10% of the global demand) could have an effect on the global mean temperature “….by extracting kinetic energy and altering turbulent transport in the atmospheric boundary layer.” However, the article notes that this effect would actually counter the effects of CO₂ and have an indirect benefit to global warming by reducing the emissions of CO₂ from power plants.

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