Re: Wind Power

From: LongmuirG (longmuirg_at_aol.com)
Date: 08/31/04 

Date: 31 Aug 2004 03:28:14 GMT

Dan Bloomquist wrote:
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>I've looked for this paper. Can't find it.

The paper apparently is in publication, and being distributed only by e-mail to
those who request it. Google the e-mail address of David W. Keith at
Carnegie-Mellon and ask him for a copy.

Ppaer is called:
The influence of large-scale wind-power on global climate

by David W. Keith, Joseph F. DeCarolis, David C. Denkenberger, Donald H.
Lenschow, Sergey L. Malyshev, Stephen Pacala and Philip J. Rasch

Submitted to Science. 8 October 2003

Abstract
Large scale use of wind power can alter local and global climate by extracting
kinetic energy and by modifying turbulent transport in the atmospheric boundary
layer. We explored the climatic impacts of extracting 3-20 TW of electricity
with a suite of numerical experiments using two independent atmospheric GCMs
and two
parameterizations of the wind-turbine arrays. Wind power has a negligible
effect on global-mean surface temperature, but at continental scales, the
average magnitude of climatic change due to wind power can be significant when
compared to the reduction in climatic change achieved by the substitution of
wind for fossil-fuels.

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