Advantages Impact
There are many benefits of wind energy, such as reducing the unemployment rate, financial savings, and especially is to protect the environment.
Since the main fuel for Wind Energy is wind, it's really friendly to the surrounding environment and reduces the environmental impacts caused by use of fossil fuels to generate electricity . In the top ten list of the cleanest energy sources, Wind Energy creates no pollution, no greenhouse gases, and there is no waste to dispose of.
According to the statistic by the "Energy Center of Wisconsin", For every thousand kilowatt-hours of energy generated from the wind instead of from coal, we avoid 2,200 pounds of carbon dioxide, 9.4 pounds of sulfur dioxide, and 4.6 pounds of nitrogen oxides.
According to the statistic by the "Energy Center of Wisconsin", For every thousand kilowatt-hours of energy generated from the wind instead of from coal, we avoid 2,200 pounds of carbon dioxide, 9.4 pounds of sulfur dioxide, and 4.6 pounds of nitrogen oxides.
Even though Wind turbines are generally 20 stories high, they take up less space than the average power station; only required about a half acre of land. This includes land for the turbine and any access roads. For that reason, it allows the land around the turbine to be used for many purposes, agriculture is an example for that.
Wind Energy has been creating many jobs throughout 2004 to 2010. According to the "American Wind Energy Association", employment in the wind industry’s manufacturing sector has increased almost 10 times from 2,500 jobs in 2004 to 20,000 in 2010, with an estimated additional 14,000 manufacturing jobs planned.