This made me think of a cool sci Fi post apocalyptic idea. A colony that has its base in the middle of violent tornado or storm country but it has a huge array of wind machines that harvest the storm for energy. On the leeward side of the array, where the colony lives, the air is calm, robbed of its energy.
This has in the past been scientifically proposed as a legitimate way to cure the US of tornadoes while yielding significant energy in the process.
Sounds like an idea that is technically sound but economically a dead end. Like harvesting lightening for electricity. It might not seem it locally but the energy is too defuse at a large scale.