Another Pipeline Believer

On Aug 2, 4:44 pm, jeff wrote:
OBROFF: Jeff, the thought was that energy transfer is energy transfer
be it from the wind or any other source. If you have a wind blowing up
a ridge in Wyoming and a field of windmills dampening it, what is the
reduced wind power on the lee side of the Ridge?

Your pal,

TBone
Guilt replaced the creel

i reckon it's just hard for me to "concept it". wrapping my brain
around the idea that wind is consumed on a large and static scale is
difficult...no doubt a deficit in my brain rather than the concept. i
know that wind gusts can be disrupted in a fixed time and space...as in
one sailboat covering another's wind as part of racing strategy...but
the idea that it is ingested or gone completely...smothered...so as to
alter climate or "respiration" is what i'm trying to grasp. certainly
there are microcosms or spaces within mountain ranges and ridges where
wind is disrupted in the manner that concerns you...what is the effect?

are the deserts in east washington a product of prevailing wind
disruption by the mountain ranges?

don't windmills allow large amounts of wind to seep between the blades?
does wind really operate in the linear and constant manner necessary for
the disruption you suggest?

is the lee side of the ridge on one day necessarily in the lee every day?

jeff (whose first wife, named "lee", was a lovely zephyr...and, yes, the
black rum is at work)

It's a good thing we invented steam and diesel powered ships. At the
current rate of global commerce we would have used up all the wind by
now.

BJ Conner wrote:


It's a good thing we invented steam and diesel powered ships. At the
current rate of global commerce we would have used up all the wind by
now.


well damn...and the journey was just beginning. took the wind right outa
my sails. you do have a nack for getting to the nub of it. g