This reminds me of the cartoon of the fan plugged into the wind turbine, with the fan pointed at the turbine to create wind.
Seriously though, the guy at least is acknowledging that renewable energy is not free and infinite or without consequence as treated by mainstream media and most people. He has no real basis behind the suggested idea though.
Taken to the detail level, I have yet to see one of these ideas hold up to the 1st and 2nd laws of thermodynamics. Until the full mechanism for an open system of energy collection is described this remains pseudoscience or outright fantasy. Weather control, thermals, updrafts, vortex, whatever you call it is hardly going to be a 'free lunch' , even were it possible.
It is shocking to me that finite sources of kinetic, thermal, or photoelectric energy are treated as infinite potential. I strongly suspect that enough deployment of so-called renewable energy sources could have dire consequences or disturbances to the planet. Careful balance is the key while we continue to learn how everything works together and disturb it as little as possible.
What is never considered, that is abundant and clean and already well understood, is nuclear. We are so scared of it because of the terrible reactor designs and operation practices of the past, when in fact many molten salt reactors, pebble bed fuels, and modern designs are inherently safe against a total loss of coolant, power, control, etc. and self stabilize and stop reacting in the absence of any kind of controls. Very few inherently safe designs are in operation, but the designs exist. In over 60 years, there has been only one widespread dispersal of radiation at a nuclear plant and that plant had a terrible design and worse operational safety. With more focus and money, we could be learning to develop thorium or similar fuels where most waste can be reprocessed as more fuel.
