Advantages And Disadvantages Of Green Energy

Fossil fuel energy is slowly killing our planet earth. With fossil fuel use and consumption being so high these days we are slowly but surely warming our Planet’s climate causing: glacial melts, floods, more frequent and severe weather conditions, more acidic oceans, and higher sea levels. All those atrocities are caused by a side effect of fossil fuel use and consumption and it is called global warming. There is a solution to stop global warming and it is called green energy. The name of the solution to global warming is Wind Energy. There are many advantages of using wind energy, but one of the most important advantages is the fact that wind turbines emit absolutely zero greenhouse gases. Greenhouse gases are substances that are common in greenhouses because of nitrification in soils and cellular respiration in plants. A short list of greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. All these gases are not harmful, but carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide are huge factors in global warming. Global warming not only

Bird killings happened a lot more when wind energy was in its first stages. There was a place where bird killings happened a lot more often than other places and that was in Altamont Pass in California. The cause of the bird killings was that the wind turbines at the time spun at high speeds and they were located where a lot of birds flew about. Another disadvantage of wind turbines is that wind speeds and high wind occurrence are not always consistent. Because the wind is never consistent there will always be some fluctuation in exactly how much electricity is produced by the wind farm, making fossil fuel energy methods more dependable than wind energy. Wind farms are also very noisy, and it is said that the noise level of a wind farm can be compared the noise level of a busy street, which is can be extremely disturbing to people living near a wind