storm actually knocked over the tower taking measurements to get wind power from that site they would have needed to install more expensive wind turbines that could work properly in those conditions in fact it's been suggested that that community might benefit more from a different kind of green energy tidal power but okay let's say you've picked the perfect spot for your wind farm windy but not too volatile now you also need to worry about the other wind farms because wind turbines disrupt the flow of air in the area around them they can mess with other nearby turbines within a wind farm it can be hard to work out the best way to arrange them so they don't interfere with each other which also means that competition between wind farms for the best wind can get fierce in NUMBER_TOKEN a new wind farm in texas was turned on upwind of another farm a few hundred meters away and reduced the first one's output by five percent which might sound small but it costs them about two million dollars a year luckily one country knows a solution to this problem the netherlands after all they have been dealing with wind stealing for centuries and netherlands has really strong regulations about building windmills near other windmills and it's been suggested that similar principles could help with wind farms as well because it turns out wind turbines don't like working in conditions that are too volatile unpredictable or crowded something that i think we can all relate to wind energy is one way we are going to bring down the world's carbon emissions but if you want to learn about your own carbon footprint and take action there's ren ren is a website where you can calculate your carbon footprint then offset it by funding projects that plant trees and protect rainforests all you have to do is answer a few questions to see what your carbon contribution is and learn a few ways you can reduce it and if you sign up to offset your carbon footprint you'll get updates telling you where your money went like what trees you planted we've also partnered with ren to protect NUMBER_TOKEN additional acres of rainforest for the first NUMBER_TOKEN people who sign up using our referral link you can get started at the link in the description and thank you for supporting scishow
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