t is important that we insure our earth can support us for generations to come. We have to think about ways to protect our environment and that means finding new ways to sustain energy methods. We must account for present needs while not endangering available energy or a healthy environment for our future. Wind energy is an excellent sustainable energy source and has the lowest impact because it uses the fewest resources to develop and is renewable.
Wind Is Cleaner Than Other Forms Of Energy
Harmful substances result from many kinds of energy production. For example, sulfur dioxide is the result of burning coal. Sulfur Dioxide causes acid rain. Other pollutants are carbon dioxide (a greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change), nitrogen dioxide (which causes smog), or mercury (which causes neurological damage.)
Power produced from wind has zero emissions. By supplying power from a clean, renewable resource, wind energy helps reduce pollution, and therefore keeps our environment healthy for future generations
Wind Is Abundant And Renewable
Unlike fossil fuels, which are non-renewable and will ultimately become more and more expensive, wind is free and will always blow. This means that wind will always be an inexpensive, constant and abundant source of electricity. Wind power has the potential to produce three times the total electricity generated in the U.S. today, while emitting no pollutants into the environment*.
*Source: AWEA
Wind Is Safe For People And Animals
A single wind-turbine has many advantages for both people and animals. They are safe for animals on the ground, and since they take up a very small percentage of land so that the local landscape can maintain its natural state.
Deer and cattle habitually graze under wind turbines, sheep seek shelter around them. While birds tend to collide with structures such as electrical power lines, guide wires, masts and buildings, they are very rarely affected directly by a single wind-turbines. According to many studies, wind's overall impact on birds is low compared with other human-related sources of their mortality, such as hunting, house cats, buildings and automobiles.
Unlike fossil fuels, which are non-renewable and will ultimately become more and more expensive, wind is free and will always blow. This means that wind will always be an inexpensive, constant and abundant source of electricity. Wind power has the potential to produce three times the total electricity generated in the U.S. today, while emitting no pollutants into the environment*.
*Source: AWEA
Wind Is Safe For People And Animals
A single wind-turbine has many advantages for both people and animals. They are safe for animals on the ground, and since they take up a very small percentage of land so that the local landscape can maintain its natural state.
Deer and cattle habitually graze under wind turbines, sheep seek shelter around them. While birds tend to collide with structures such as electrical power lines, guide wires, masts and buildings, they are very rarely affected directly by a single wind-turbines. According to many studies, wind's overall impact on birds is low compared with other human-related sources of their mortality, such as hunting, house cats, buildings and automobiles.
Wind Can Help America Gain Energy Independence
Every megawatt of energy that America can produce using its own natural resources means a megawatt less of reliance on foreign energy sources. By harnessing the renewable and inexhaustible power of wind, we reduce our nation’s dependence on fossil fuel imports, conserve natural resources and expand the diversity of our energy supply.
Conserving valuable water resources
Wind energy uses no water in energy production and emits no mercury, a cause of contamination of our rivers, lakes and ocean from conventional electricity production.
Reducing health risks
By offsetting the need for fossil-fueled generation, wind energy may help decrease particulates and pollutants in the atmosphere, urban smog, and toxic heavy metals found in fish.
Every megawatt of energy that America can produce using its own natural resources means a megawatt less of reliance on foreign energy sources. By harnessing the renewable and inexhaustible power of wind, we reduce our nation’s dependence on fossil fuel imports, conserve natural resources and expand the diversity of our energy supply.
Conserving valuable water resources
Wind energy uses no water in energy production and emits no mercury, a cause of contamination of our rivers, lakes and ocean from conventional electricity production.
Reducing health risks
By offsetting the need for fossil-fueled generation, wind energy may help decrease particulates and pollutants in the atmosphere, urban smog, and toxic heavy metals found in fish.
Preserving Local Lands
Wind farms enable local property owners to maintain the current use of their land, such as farming, grazing cattle, or logging, while creating a new source of clean energy.
Wind farms enable local property owners to maintain the current use of their land, such as farming, grazing cattle, or logging, while creating a new source of clean energy.