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Actually, wind turbines do produce heat but we generally let it dissipate. It may be that it is not really usable, but wind turbines that only produce heat are a thing historically:

https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2019/02/heat-your-house-with...



I think the issue is you can’t really move heat too far physically, and turbines are located usually pretty far from houses themselves. Certainly relative to rooftop solar.


No argument here, I was just being a pedant really


I appreciated your comment because I hadn’t actually thought about that before!




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