Wind+Energy

Here are some other pages on similar topics to wind energy: Alternative Sources of Energy and Nuclear Energy Here is a video about a current event on Wind Energy : []

__**Current Event:**__ //**Article Name:**// Wind’s $168 Billion North Sea Boom Lures Oil Industry []? The article above goes in depth about projects led by oil industries such as [|Technip SA (TEC)] and [|Subsea 7 SA (SUBC)] that are working together in order to invest in wind energy around the north sea. __**Description of Topic:**__ The use of the Wind’s Energy began in Holland and in farms around the United States as __windmills__. They were mainly used to pump water and grind grain. Nowadays thanks to modern technology the world has created a device called a __wind turbine__, and it can be used to generate the wind’s energy into electricity. The wind turbine is a __renewable source of energy__, which automatically is healthier for the environment. Wind Turbines are mounted on a tower, because it is the most efficient way of capturing the winds energy. By standing so high in the air, and with propeller-like blades mounted on a shaft forming a __rotor__, they are able to use the faster less turbulent wind. What happens is that the force of the wind turns the rotors, automatically causing the rotors to turn the turbine. As the turbine turns, it rotates the __generator__, resulting in the creation of electricity. As the world’s temperature rises and the risk of global warming grows; it is crucial to find alternative ways to produce things such as electricity, which is used worldwide and daily. People will often claim that these innovating machines are not truly good for the environment, stating that they kill birds, are ugly, and make to much noise. However, due to modern technology the turbine turns slowly helping birds identify them before collision; a bird is killed by a wine turbine about once every eight to fifteen years. Since the turbines move slower, the noise is automatically reduced. Also, the turbines are now formed into slim modern-looking machines, making them “pretty”. There are basically no reasons on why not to use wind energy to produce electricity for cities around the world. They produce zero __CO2 emissions__, are renewable, __self-sustainable__, free (no one has to pay for wind, however everyone pays for oil and other sources of energy), they create more jobs, are quick to install, and have a low impact to wildlife and natural habitats. Wind turbines are the safest, cheapest way to create electricity in our world today. Sources: [|http://www.he][|althlink.org/wind-pros-cons-37.html] [] []

__**List of key terms about wind energy:**__ A machine that runs on the energy generated by a wheel of adjustable blades or slats rotated by the wind. [|For Wind Energy's Future, Researchers Look High in the Sky] **4. //Rotor://** The blade and hub assembly of a wind generator. []
 * 1.** //**Wind energy:**// energy that is created by the movement of wind around the earth.
 * 2. //Windmill://**
 * 3. //Renewable Energy://** Energy that comes from natural resources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat, which are renewable (naturally replenished)
 * 5.//Wind Turbine://** A machine that captures the force of the wind. Called a Wind Generator when used to produce electricity. Called a Windmill when used to crush grain or pump water.
 * 6.** //**Wind Generator:**// A device that captures the force of the wind to provide rotational motion to produce power with an alternator or generator.
 * 7. //Self-sustainable://** Something that can maintain itself by independent effort.
 * 8. //Fossil Fuels://** Fuels formed by natural processes such as anaerobic decomposition of buried dead organisms.
 * 9. //CO2 Emissions://** Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a colourless, odourless, and non-poisonous gas formed by combustion of carbon and it the respiration of living organisms and is considered a greenhouse gas. Emissions means the release of greenhouse gases and/or their precursors into the atmosphere over a specified area and period of time.

John Droz jr. is a physicist and and environmental activist. He believes that Wind energy could be a good alternative for energy, however he suggests that there is corruption behind the whole concept. Droz states that most times people choose to install wind turbines as a way to promote economic development in their community. He is strongly for finding alternatives for coal and fossil fuels, but he wants to invest in true methods, and not methods such as wind turbines with he believes it “illusionary” and corrupt.

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