The Benefits Of Wind Energy

Nowadays, we usually use the newer term called “wind turbine”.1 About four percent of the energy created in the United States comes from wind energy,2 and over 100 countries are now following in this trend and produce energy through the use of wind. This not only shows that a wind energy has great potential in the future, but also how popular it already is. It can be said that the more countries there are that using wind energy the better it is for our world. It is better because wind energy is a sustainable energy source.3 Looking back already at around 1000 AD wind power used and spread around northern Europe, starting with Holland.

“Renewable power creates jobs and generates revenue for local communities.” (Clean Line Energy Power, n.d.) The renewable power generates revenue for communities, which means that the revenues from it may allow local economies that needs new roads, schools, etc. Energies we use a lot nowadays such as fossil fuel and nuclear energy are both nonrenewable energy, which produces a huge amount of waste. For nuclear energy, once it’s all extracted, then the nuclear plant will be out of use.

According to the Energy Information Administration (solar vs coal 2), 15 years ago, the electricity industry made a huge shift towards renewable sources of energy because of its cheap availability and increasing popularity. The author also compared the coal and the solar energy of at this time as a new electricity generation. Both solar and coal produce energy, but solar energy is more beneficial because of its efficiency, construction cost, and is environmentally safe and healthy. Everyone needs energy for various purposes.

Take an example from the world banks in the 1950s and '60s, huge hydropower projects. Making dam cast huge but produce less energy than expected. Their biggest beneficiaries are mining companies and aluminum smelters, while Africa's poor inequality increase. This means the world bank got benefit by mining but the people who want or need help couldn’t get much support from this project. Only the debt increased.

Most of the time wind turbines are forced to operate depending on the wind speed. But running under half its amount means lower energy production. The flow of the blades and the cogwheels make most of the noise. Cogwheels make noise inside the turbines tower. The noise is carried to the top of the wind turbine and it is given off across an area and thats the humming noise that the locals can hear2.

Many electrical generation methods pollute the air by burning carbon-containing fossil fuels that create carbon dioxide. The Three Mile Island accident was not as expensive as other disasters. Hurricane Katrina was the most expensive United States disaster. It affected 19% of United States oil production and briefly increased gas prices. (“Amadeo”)

“Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy.” Michael Burgess Prior to the introduction of nuclear energy, fossil fuel was thought to be the only available source in producing energy. Although fossil fuel, such as coal, petroleum, and natural gas, contains high energy value, it produces too many harmful byproducts that ultimately pollute our environment. With the rising concerns over global warming as more and more greenhouse gases accumulate in our Earth’s atmosphere, many voice such opinions that new alternative, yet sustainable method must be adopted to produce energy.

The first practical windmills were used in Sistan, early in the Middle Ages. Eventually they became used by many Asian and Middle Eastern civilisations, for example "by 1000 AD, windmills were used to pump seawater for salt-making in China and Sicily". We still use the wind to sail today In the 19th century, along with the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, we started to see even more practical purposes for windmills. We had started to provide electricity with windmills.

Angel Hsu A block Solar Energy 12/22/2015 “Because we are now running out of gas and oil, we must prepare quickly for a third change, to strict conservation and to the use of coal and permanent renewable energy resources, like solar power. ”(Jimmy Carter, televised speech,1977) Just like what he said, we should develop other energy than fossil fuel because we will run out of it some days and fossil fuels are the main reason of global climate change.

Over the past half-decade, the world has known a near-exponential increase in the consumption fossil fuels. It plays a quintessential role in the proper functioning of the globe. However, over the past few years, oil reserves have been depleting at a quick rate. There will be a day when there will not be any fossil fuels left to assuage the energy needs of the world. There is currently a few alternative resources lined-up but the most promising for fossil fuels to pass the torch to seem to be nuclear energy.

Domestic oil was being produce oil at 100%, but the production was still not enough to supply Americans demeaned. The Graph in PDF, displayed the energy consumption by source. It showed how much oil Americans were using and the beginning of the downfall in the United States, due to how much oil we used. Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana

Xel Energy, one of the power plant compony that use wind, generate a large amount of power for use at a low cost on money and environment. Obama’s climate action plan make the United States the leader of solving the problem of climate change. It called for the reduce emission of carbon dioxide, reform on the power plants, and use renewable resources. EDF works with other organization to help control and watch the change in climate and population. But the process of solving the solution problem and climate change is never easy.