Messing With The Environment “To Fight Climate Change”… Wind Farms Are Altering The North Sea

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Messing With The Environment “To Fight Climate Change”… Wind Farms Are Altering The North Sea
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By P Gosselin on 26. February 2022

Before their approval, largescale projects in Germany – almost without exception – have to be studied to determine their impacts on the surrounding environment. This step seems to be ignored for North Sea wind farms.

Hat-tip: Die kalte Sonne.

Wind farms are altering the North Sea

Atmospheric wakes extending from the bottom to the top of the picture [contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (Sentinel 2A-MSI 29/03/2021), processed by ESA & Hereon/ Dr Martin Hieronymie]

A team of researchers led by Nils Christiansen from the Helmholtz Center Hereon has published a study on the impact of offshore wind farms on ocean dynamics. The focus was on weakening wind and the accompanying changes in the physical conditions of the affected North Sea areas.

Turbines sap energy out of the wind

Wind turbines pose obstacles to water and air. The effects are of great importance with regard to the planning of future offshore wind farms. The study appeared in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/02/27/messing-with-the-environment-to-fight-climate-change-wind-farms-are-altering-the-north-sea/

[Smokin Joe]

I have been asking for years if the extraction of energy from major wind currents is altering the climate.

Good to see someone has had the time/money to investigate this.

If it is happening over the ocean, it is causing changes over land, too, interfering with the natural atmospheric mixing, and perhaps even causing more severe storms, something the more traditional energy industry (Coal/Oil/Gas) has been getting blamed for.