In Lancashire we frequently get gales, fence-downer strength, but we never get hurricanes. A lot of coastal resorts (California) always seem a bit gusty, maybe because of sea breezes. And even in the middle of deserts, you get sandstorms. Is there anywhere that doesn't get blowy from time to time?
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California doesn't really get the fence-downer strength winds, it's mostly the steady and regular afternoon breeze blowing in from the ocean when the sun is shining inland. Once in a while you could get a windy storm during the rainy season in winter, but it's nothing like the monster winds that blow regularly in the gulf of Mexico or in Tornado alley.
There are some parts of the world that are sheltered from wind. In California for example, Los Angeles is surrounded by mountains and doesn't get much wind, which accounts for its smog issues.
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Where I live almost never gets wind, as we are in a depression in the mountains (I live 700 m up, but am surrounded by mountains of approx 1500m and greater). So, basically we only ever feel any wind when it blows from one very specific direction, which is incredibly rare. (or those winds that you get with thunderstorms)
This is lucky as in the winter the temperature drops to round -30 and with wind that would be unbearable. As it is, it is bearable.
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tratorello wrote: Apologies if this is a stupid question but if we keep building wind farms which take energy from the wind, will there end up being less wind overall?
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Apologies if this is a stupid question but if we keep building wind farms which take energy from the wind, will there end up being less wind overall?
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Evariste Euler Gauss wrote:Apologies if this is a stupid question but if we keep building wind farms which take energy from the wind, will there end up being less wind overall?
See, renewables will destroy us all!
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tratorello wrote: Apologies if this is a stupid question but if we keep building wind farms which take energy from the wind, will there end up being less wind overall?
Does that make sense?
If there was an impact on wind reduction though, it wouldn't necessarily be negative. In arid or agricultural regions that have high winds, planting trees has been promoted in order to reduce wind-driven soil erosion. Conversely, deforestation has contributed to higher winds and adverse effects.
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Tourist postcards and promotion material should include wind. All those shots you see of beautiful New Zealand scenery? Look closer - why are the trees bending over? Why is that scantily clad woman on that pristine beach clutching her hat?
I could do with less of it, myself.
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Bored, I think you've hit upon something that could be of global importance here — this could tap into the potentially unlimited power of sod's law, in a similar way to how buttered cats should be able to solve the problem of perpetual motion. We can conquer the problems of wind-scouring in places where there has been deforestation and soil erosion: all we need to do is air-drop thousands of small children holding cheap plastic kites. There is no force on earth that could stop the winds dead more effectively than clusters of disappointed five-year-olds each clutching the end of a limp length of string attached to a grounded kite.
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Velvet Android wrote: Bored, I think you've hit upon something that could be of global importance here — this could tap into the potentially unlimited power of sod's law, in a similar way to how buttered cats should be able to solve the problem of perpetual motion.
It doesn't matter which direction you're riding in, what the weather's like or what time of year it is - you always have the sort of headwind that transforms your face into a giant repository for your own snot.
So if you put the kids with the kites onto the handlebars of the snot-faced cyclists and then rotated them by 180°, then there would be no wind. Or twice as much wind. Or something.
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Kites are a bit shit, really.
You get the Star Warsy one for your kid and have to listen to him nattering on about you taking him out to fly it until you can actually take him out to fly it. Only then it's not windy, is it ? But you go anyway, because he doesn't understand.
So you're there, kite out, slight breeze. He's holding the string, you launch the kite and shout at him to run. No, not that way - into the wind.
Reversing roles is just as futile, though differently, and after a few more tries he buggers off to the swings and leaves you to it.
Sorry. I've had that bottled up for a long time.
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