Wind-Renewable

These warm patches of air rise, other air blows in to replace them - and we feel a wind blowing. We can use the energy in the wind by building a tall tower, with a large propellor on the top. The wind blows the propellor round, which turns a generator to produce electricity. || ||
 * The Sun heats our atmosphere unevenly, so some patches become warmer than others.

[] This is the link to the paragraph found above. The website also has general information about wind power and turbines. I can conclude based on just that paragraph above that wind energy is renewable, because as long as there is a sun that heats the atmosphere unevenly and warm air rises, there will be wind. We can always turn the wind into electricity through turbines, so wind will always be a renewable resource for electricity. ~By Kim Blazer

Renewable Energy This is a page with an article about how one city has gone completely on wind power. ~By Kim Blazer

[] This website has a lot of information on how we can use wind energy as an alternative source for electricity. I learned that wind energy is renewable, so I think that it is a good alternative to nonrenewable resources such as coal, but this article gave me even more knowledge about what complications there are. A small wind energy system such as this: [|wind_power.jpg] (Source: Ontario Wind Smith, although the image was found on this website [] ) could be a beneficial alternative for a source of electricity for your home if you're property has enough wind, is big enough, far enough away from neighbors, is in a local zoning that allows wind turbines, your are comfortable making a long term investment, and have such high energy bills that investing in a wind tubine would //save// you money. If you think of how many people all of that applies to, it isn't many. However, there are larger wind turbines that are usually installed many at a time at a what's called a wind farm. These turbines can produce up to hundreds of megawatts (MW) of electricity, which could power hundreds of home. With more wind farms it would be more beneficial to power homes because there are less requirements that each person would have to have in order to use wind power. Also, I think that there will come a time when the price for electricity is higher (because it is non renewable) than the investment it would take to get a turbine, so maybe not now, but soon wind power may be beneficial economically as well as environmentally. ~By Kim Blazer