Drought, windmills, and energy

Roger in Iowa · Jul 28, 2012

Could the current wide spread drought be due to the energy removed from the wind by the electrical generating windmills be contributing to the drought?

Air has been stagnant over Iowa for most of the summer. No three to four day winds blowing out of the south to bring moisture from the gulf, and no hurricanes to help either.

Lots of those windmills in California, Kansas and Iowa. Sure to be more in other states.

Yes, I have tractors.

Walt Davies · Jul 28, 2012

WHAT???

Fern(Mi) · Jul 28, 2012

Obviously we need to drive our tractors backwards to reverse these weather trends....
....ya 'spose.
Fernan

Greg K · Jul 28, 2012

hahahaa! thats a good one! Not true around here anyway. there used to be a windmill on every farm here probably 3 - 4 per section. Now there is about 1 farm for avery 3rd section, and NO functioning windmills. Of course this is in Nebraska where they were very predominant more so than in an area with a lot of trees(NW Wisconsin for example).

pete black · Jul 28, 2012

Today your tax dollars are being used to put them up; tomorrow your tax dollars will be used to take them down.

gene bender · Jul 28, 2012

How far did you fall when you tripped on something.

jackinok · Jul 28, 2012

think we could get a gov grant to do a study? talking to an old freind of mine a while back he had to drag me out to the pasture to look at a wind mill his boy had made a tower for and installed on an old well. said he had another one his boy was redoing but he didnt know if he would stand it up .he wasnt sure he had enough wind to turn two!

retired farmer · Jul 28, 2012

Look up-1. chemtrails and 2. government weather experiments on the internet. You will find the answer there as to why we are having such crazy weather these days. All a part of trying to control the world.

wisbaker · Jul 28, 2012

Wait until the earth stops spinning because of all the extra resistance the wind mills are putting on the earth increasing the amount of torque the earth needs to rotate. I'm thinking about writing a book and going on tour with this one.

paul · Jul 28, 2012

No no, tax dollar will be used to power them to replntish the wind the govt mistakenly removed from the skies. Electricity used will cost 4x as much for this project as it will need to come from Brailian ethanol.

But it willbe good for us.

--->Paul

LA in WI · Jul 28, 2012

One of our neighbors put up two big windmills a few years ago; he had to take one down this summer because there wasn"t enough air for two.

Our local river is so low it"s only using one bank. The water was tested and it"s only 65% moisture.

It was so hot here I saw a dog chasing a cat and they were both walking.
LA in WI

Big fat Mike · Jul 28, 2012

but I thought it was all Bush's fault?

Anonymous-0 · Jul 28, 2012

that you never sucessfully reproduced.

buickanddeere · Jul 28, 2012

Kidding or serious?

retired farmer · Jul 28, 2012

For future military purposes.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 28, 2012

It's obvious that half of the windmills need to be turning in the other direction.

Walt Davies · Jul 28, 2012

No that would put half of the electricity back into the air causing a disruption of economic powers. Man we got enough trouble as it is.
Walt

RamblinMan · Jul 28, 2012

Keep talkin so maybe the govment will forget cow fart tax with global warming.

Wile E · Jul 28, 2012

If you are serious then you are biggest Flipping Moron that has walked the earth.
You say you have a tractor? Be careful, you might fall off and run yourself over with the rear tire.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 28, 2012

Iffn you really want wind energy to work, put a windmill on obummers microphone, Viola, as the french say, perpetual motion machine!

Hoofer B · Jul 28, 2012

They make electricity with those windmills? I thought they ran electricity to them and ran an electric motor to make the wind. Apparently my thinking was bass ackwards. Thanks for clearing this up for me and everyone else.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 29, 2012

People have seen the clouds separate and disappear when they get close to the wind generators here in Nebraska from Petersburg to Bloomfield area, also the dryest it's been in my forty years. chris

Erik Ks farmer · Jul 29, 2012

I think not, we have had more wind here this summer than we have had for 6 or 7 years.

eastexan · Jul 29, 2012

(quoted from post at 20:19:06 07/29/12) I think not, we have had more wind here this summer than we have had for 6 or 7 years.

Finally, a good honest answer that wasn't meant to ridicule.

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