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Letter: Stealing the wind

Published 14 April 2001

From Brian Moss

Andrew Walker wonders if wind power will affect the weather
(31 March, p 52).

A wind turbine will, just like a tree, slow the wind down a small amount.
Since we have cut down millions of trees and constructed only thousands of wind
turbines, I imagine each new turbine goes a little way towards mitigating the
effects on wind speed of removing all that woodland.

Tamworth, Staffordshire

Issue no. 2286 published 14 April 2001

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