My brother was in town this weekend. We spent a lot of time chatting. We also spent a lot of time drinking, but I digress.

My brother has a mechanical engineering degree and currently works for a defense contractor designing rockets. It’s a pretty cool gig and he seems to know what’s he’s doing.

We got talking about renewable energy. Mrs. Hazard brought up the T. Boone Pickens wind farmin’ as a good idea. We’re both from Texas and if there’s one thing that state has a lot of, it’s wind. It also has a lot of fire ants, but again, I digress.

My brother said, wait, hold on there, not so fast. As he describes it, the Earth and its various ecosystems are a delicate balance. It’s hard to know what the full downstream impact of our actions are, until perhaps its too late. In the present example, Adam reminded us that we are taking energy out of the wind. This is energy that was previously going to something. Perhaps it was pollinating grasses and trees. Perhaps it was dispersing insects, or perhaps it was creating enough wind sheer to disaude some hurricanes from making landfall.

In other words, we don’t know what we are monkeying with here.

Something to think about, that’s all I’m saying.

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As for Al Gore…Need I say more?