Thursday, April 09, 2015

04-09-2015 Wind Turbines Affecting Weather Patterns in United States?

I'm traveling down and then back up the west coast of the United States (US) for a month in search of drier weather I can hang my hat during Northwest US (Seattle, WA) tree pollen season because my asthma kicks in and I can hardly breath for three months out of the year.

I have quite a bit of general knowledge across a broad brush of subjects. This allows me to see subtle patterns not too many other people notice. I can piece together complex interactions and pose critical questions for others who have more specialized knowledge to test the possible impactful patterns I am noting on my journey through life. So here is a pattern I noticed on my western US journey.

Power companies are constructing several dozen wind turbines generating electricity which is fed into the national power grid to supplement power hungry western US cities. Many of these wind turbines are being built on the east (leeward) side of US West Coast Mountain ranges.

In previous publications I have proposed the idea part of global warming may be caused by all the creation of freeways across mountain passes acting as heat ducts with multiple heat generating sources (cars and trucks) pushing warm air more efficiently over mountain passes and raising the average temperature at the summit of those mountain passes to the point the snow pack is melting earlier than it used to at the summit of mountain passes with freeways punched through them. Kind of makes sense, right? Freeways can be thought of as heating ducts you find in most US houses to efficiently push warm air from a central furnace to various rooms in the house.

On my western US journey I stopped in Tucson, Arizona and visited a Flight Museum with all kinds of old planes from World War II (WWII) until today in it. I took a guided tour about the various types of planes used by US, Japanese, German and Russian pilots used in WWII. The journey from learning to build and fly airplanes to applying this new found air technology to wage war was fascinating to me. One thing the guide said that stuck in my mind was the fact we learned all about "Jet Streams" and how these powerful streams of air flowing across the US and around the world affect weather and can affect the speed planes can travel around the world!

Another fact I picked up in Tucson from watching the local weather forecast on TV is the fact rain coming from the west over the deserts surrounding Tucson, AZ often evaporates before it has time to hit the ground! This happens all the time. It is hot enough in Tucson to evaporate falling rain before it hits the ground. Fascinating!

It seems to me all these wind turbines we are building on the leeward side of mountain passes on the west coast of the US could increase global warming in the same way adding a fan to a home furnace more efficiently pushes warm air to rooms of a house.

Could the dozens of wind turbines on the leeward side in Palm Springs, CA and Ellensburg, WA increase global warming by efficiently pushing warm air from the west side of the mountains to the east side of the mountains? There has to be some impact on air flow over mountain passes from freeways being punched through mountains passes. I believe it opened a path of warm air from the Pacific Ocean and Hawaii to the Midwest and Eastern US Seaboard as well as moving all the warm air cars and trucks generate along the congested western US freeways.

Adding the wind turbines on the leeward side of US West Coast Mountain Passes is just like adding a fan to a house furnace with heating ducts (the freeways) to push the hot air all the way from the West Coast Pacific Ocean to the East Coast of the US!

These new wind turbines at key junctures on the leeward side of the West Coast US mountain range could also be mixing cold air of the mountains with warm air of the desert enough to melt snow packs early at the summit of the mountains even more than before and perhaps even cause rain to evaporate before it hits the ground! That would mean all the moisture laden air is delayed from falling to the ground causing super flooding further along the way in Midwest and East Coast US states!

We need to do further research and find out the effects wind turbines on the leeward side of mountain passes and freeways may have on the jet stream or general flow of air from the west US coast to the Midwest and East Coast of the US.

Another even more bizarre idea that needs to be tested is the idea that the electro-magnetic forces generated from these wind turbines is causing a perpendicular electron flow of charged particles across the US and super charging hurricane force weather in the Midwest and East Coast states of the US!

I would think you could generate a computer model showing the increased air flow across the US caused by placing dozens of wind turbines on the leeward side of mountains passes on the side of the freeways punched through those mountain passes.

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