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'Wind theft': The mysterious effect plaguing wind farms

    From BBC World News By  :- Sophie Hardach Edited by :- Amal Udawatta Getty Images As wind farms expand, some can accidentally "steal" each others' wind – causing worries over some countries' energy transition to net zero. As offshore wind farms are expanding around the world in the race to meet net zero climate targets, a worrying phenomenon is attracting growing attention: in some conditions, wind farms can "steal" each other's wind. "Wind farms produce energy, and that energy is extracted from the air. And the extraction of energy from the air comes with a reduction of the wind speed," says Peter Baas, a research scientist at Whiffle, a Dutch company specialising in renewable energy and weather forecasting. The wind is slower behind each turbine  within the wind farm  than in front of it, and also behind the wind farm as a whole, compared with in front of it, he explains. "This is called the wake effect." Simply put, as the spin...

Experts dispute claim dire wolf brought back from extinction

    From :- BBC World News     By:-  Victoria Gill  ( Science correspondent, BBC News)    Edited by :- Amal Udawatta                                                            Watch: Experts dispute claims dire wolf brought back from extinction There is a magnificent, snow-white wolf on the cover of Time Magazine today - accompanied by a headline announcing the return of the dire wolf. This now extinct species is possibly most famous for its fictional role in Game of Thrones, but it did exist - more than 10,000 years ago - when it roamed across the Americas. The company  Colossal Biosciences is behind today's headlines . It announced that it used "deft genetic engineering and ancient DNA" to breed three dire wolf puppies and to "de-extinct" the species. But while the young wolves - Romulus, Remu...