Introduction
What is wind energy? Wind energy is when wind turns turbines and creates energy. People started using wind power centuries ago. Today, we use water power more often than wind.
prosPros You use less fossil fuels, it does not harm plants
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consCons Noise pollution, not structurally stable because they can easy collapse or start fires, and it hurts animals that live in the .
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environmental impact
Wind power is good for the environment because we use less fossil fuels and fossil fuels are a non-renewable fact . If we use a lot of fossil fuels we won't have any more later on. By the turbine spinning it hurts the animals that fly
cost
The with energy does cost when you build the turbine but we use less fossil fuels so it's not so much money . you make turbine is 3000 to 8000 pretty pricey . It's not as much money as the other machines that are out there .
news
Wind turbines are now taking up lots of room. so now people are starting to put them overseas. that is a problem because it's already hurting nature in sky now it's hurting nature in the sea .
fun facts
wind turbines started in china ,one wind turbines can power 500 homes ,Wind farms are large groups of wind turbines,Wind mills date all the way back to the year 2000 BC where they were used in China, and Wind turbines create electricity while wind mills produce mechanical energy.
Bibilography
Gale Database
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/default/sacred?db=SCIC
Alliant Energy Kids
http://www.alliantenergykids.com/energyandTheEnvironment/RenewableEnergy/
Wind Energy Facts
http://www.softschools.com/facts/energy/wind_energy_facts/403/
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