benefits of wind - final draft
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Hollyann Martin
ENG 102: Composition II
Benefits of Wind Power
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What’s so wrong with fossil fuels?
Air Pollution
Carbon Emissions
Non-renewable
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Why choose wind?
Abundant
Clean
Sustainable
Inexpensive
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How do wind turbines work?
Click here to view an animation of
how a wind turbine turns
wind into electricity.
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Large-scale Wind Energy Use
Fenton Wind Farm near Chandler, MN
Windmills south of Dumas, TX
San Gorgonio Pass Wind Farm in California
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Small-scale Wind Energy Use
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Global Use
(Left) A wind turbine being worked on in Halle, Germany. (Right) The Wakamatsu Wind Farm in Kitakyushu, Japan.
A wind farm in mountainous Galicia, Spain.
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Bibliography Brown, Lester R., Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization.
New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 2008. p 239-243.
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/windandhydro/printable_versions/wind_animation.html
http://www.awea.org/faq/rsdntqa.html#Howdoresidentialwindturbineswork
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_farm#European_Union
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_the_United_States#Wind_power_by_state
http://www.gogreenman.com/education/windenergy.htm
http://greenlivingideas.com/wind-energy/the-benefits-of-wind-power
http://www.kidcyber.com.au/topics/fossilfuels.htm
http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/04/07/dept-of-interior-offshore-wind-could-meet-100-of-us-demand/