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...and conversely, you seem to have a view of "wind" as a magical entity which starts at ground level and extends upwards to no more than the height of a electrical wind turbine. Show me a cross section of an inflowing air mass about to fill the void left by the rising convecting cell with the height of commercial wind turbines thrown in on which you base your assumptions.

Life got to me. In the form of two little girls keeping me up all night, and working my butt off keeping me up all day! Yah, politics still nuts on this end of the world, what with a serial poligamist for a president, who's favourite thing to do at the end of a political rally is to sing a little ditty about killing my people. True story. Crazy crap for someone used to Western politics, I know. Any case, gotta run - 3:39 am over here, and the youngest just started nagging for a bottle...

I think the biggest problem with your Google hit rate for "que" vs. "queue" is simply that "que" is Spanish for "what?". So I guess the majority of hits generated by Google would be from questions asked by Spaniards than anything else. What happens if you tell Google only to search English pages?

How you guys doing, by the way? I've been gone for a while, raisin' kids an' such... A full time job, lemme tell ya...

I agree. Over here, in South Africa, sending a petty criminal off to jail is often seen as sending him to "Crime University". When he comes out, he's a much more dangerous and able criminal.

I've got another sort of idea, though. Not too much to do with your original post, but it does tie in, in a bit of an off-hand way:

Crime in itself is merely an individual stating, through his actions, that he does not agree with the Laws governing Society, and that he thus does not feel bound by them. Society says, for instance, that "Murder is wrong". This could be sourced from many different origins, some people will tell you that that particular clause in our mutual agreement to live together in a cohesive society might spring from "God" telling it to Moses many years ago, up on the mountain. Wherever it is claimed to spring from, under whoever's authority, the mutually agreed ruling that "Murder is wrong" is a fundamental building block necessary for our society to operate. Now, if someone kills someone else, premeditated, not an act of "passion" or whatever the case might be, that particular "criminal" simply states that he does not agree with the rules that makes it possible for us to live in a civilized society. So why should we entertain him for many years, at our cost, in a tax-paid institution where we try to conform him to our world-view? He already made it clear through his actions that he does not agree with our rules.

So what do we do?

Here's my proposal:

Cut off a piece of land, say, a few hundred kilometers square. Let the army patrol the borders, put up electrified fencing around the place. Declare that piece of land independent of your country. Throw every criminal guilty of breaking fundamental societal rules in there, and let them do in that piece of land whatever they please. There would be no rules there (that's what they wanted, right?), unless the criminals figure out that they need some sort of order and form their own "government". If they have to slug it out for the top position, let it be so. If most of them die in the process, let it be so. They made it clear through their crimes that they much prefer anarchy to order, so giving it to them is merely complying with their wishes. They're more than welcome to try and visit the original country, but they have to apply for a visa. And the original country simply won't issue a visa to someone with a murder charge on their record. Simple.

Oh well, dream on.

Wind is simply air moving horizontally. Convection is an air cell moving vertically. Granted, that air cell won't move upwards if it's space can't be taken by cold, denser air flowing inwards, horizontally. But the only way to prevent the denser air from flowing in to fill the gap left by the rising hot air, would be to build a solid wall many kilometers high around the rising cell. Wind farms are way too flimsy in the great scheme of things to have any impact on the inflow of dense air to fill the void left by the rising hot column.