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Enjoy my presentation on using wind power.
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Hollyann Martin
ENG 102: Composition II
Benefits of Wind Power
What’s so wrong with fossil fuels?
Air Pollution
Carbon Emissions
Non-renewable
Why choose wind?
Abundant
Clean
Sustainable
Inexpensive
How do wind turbines work?
Click here to view an animation of
how a wind turbine turns
wind into electricity.
Large-scale Wind Energy Use
Fenton Wind Farm near Chandler, MN
Windmills south of Dumas, TX
San Gorgonio Pass Wind Farm in California
Small-scale Wind Energy Use
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.
Bibliography Brown, Lester R., Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization.
New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 2008. p 239-243.
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http://www.awea.org/faq/rsdntqa.html#Howdoresidentialwindturbineswork
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_the_United_States#Wind_power_by_state
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