[MCN] A case of "critical slowing down" for big windpower?

[Lance Olsen]

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Public Release: 31-Aug-2015
As wind-turbine farms expand, research shows they could offer 
diminishing returns

Researchers from the University of Kansas found that a slowdown 
effect triggered by wind turbines is substantial for large wind farms 
and results in proportionally less renewable energy generated for 
each turbine versus the energy that would be generated from an 
isolated wind turbine.

JOURNAL
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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"Water is the biggest thermal sink on Earth, and we better be able to 
stand the heat."
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2015/08/31/climate-change-has-got-the-earth-in-hot-water/

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transforming the country into a developed nation, he meant that it 
really had to suffer through a deep real-estate recession, like those 
experienced by the U.S. and the U.K."

Steven Bergman. "Thriving Malaysia Propels an Office-Tower Boom In 
Its Biggest City, and You Know What Follows a Boom,"
Barron's, August 12, 1996.
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