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Wind Energy Disadvantages

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In recent years, there has been an increased interest in the use of alternative energy sources, which become more and more necessary due to the limitations of fossil fuels and the dangers of climate change. The aim of this essay is to describe the advantages and disadvantages of wind energy as a renewable source of energy and assessing if it a feasible alternative to the most common measures.

Wind energy has many advantages in comparison with other sources of energy. To begin with, it is an infinite source of energy, since wind will not just vanish. In the given lecture, Anton van de Ven mentioned that many renewables are very patchy, for example sunlight is very limited in some areas. While the wind power is changing in different areas …show more content…

This also applies to wind turbines, which according to Dr. van de Ven run “only around 30% of the time”. Most wind turbines also need electricity to start with, which means that they could never run as a sole independent form of energy generation. They also are not completely free of CO2 emission, since a small amount is released during construction and maintenance phases of the turbines. Other than that there are three major negative impacts of wind power, which are the dangers for wildlife, noise pollution and visual disturbance. Firstly, wildlife can become affected by the build of wind turbines in two ways, a direct way which for example includes collisions and an indirect way, which includes avoidance, habitat disruption and displacement. Birds are the largest victim group (A. Drewitt, R. Langston: Assessing the impacts of the wind farms on birds (2006)), followed by bats (F.E. Baerwald, G.H. D’Amours, B.J. Klug, R.M.R. Barclay Barotraumas is a significant cause of bat fatalities at wind turbines, Current Biology, 18 (16) (2008), pp. R695-R696)). The main cause of death is …show more content…

Electricity generated from wind power seems like one of the best possibilities to enable this transition, but like all the other measures it has disadvantages too and cannot work

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