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.

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