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Not Zero | IEA Book Club with Ross Clark

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The Effects of Climate Change on Wind Speeds

The all renewable solution preferred by groups like the green party require spreading solar panels everywhere wind farms everywhere on and off shore. That causes problems like declining wind speeds as well as impacts on nature if you put one wind turbine on a hill it will generate certain amounts of electricity if you then build another wind turbine behind it sometimes that first turbine will steal some of the wind from the second turbine so yeah if you build it try and cover the countryside with wind turbines the amount they they will generate will reduce. It's also something which tends to get missed out the debate is actually there's a global decline in wind speeds because of climate change.

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