You can't own the wind, but you can, apparently, "steal" it. Enter "wind theft" — a phenomenon that wind farms across Europe are encountering as more of these renewable power plants pop up across the continent, the BBC reports. As powerful and vast the currents of air that wrap our planet may be, the effects of hundreds of wind turbines tapping into them aren't negligible, it turns out. "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," Peter Baas, a research scientist at […]