As we all know, renewable energy sources are the new big thing. With current energy consumption levels, we can not keep using unrenewable sources for long. Wind power is one of the good new energy sources that has very low environmental impacts. Of course there are environmental impacts from the production of the windmills but the usage is emission free. Images of wind turbines in Finland
Wind is never-ending and wasting a perfectly good energy source is frankly quite dumb. In Finland we have to import a great amount of energy just because of our low energy production and that costs a lot of money. With more windmills we can cut down on energy import and we can gradually lower the usage of power plants. So why aren’t there that many windmills? Well, windmills are most productive where there is a lot of wind. That means mainly on the coast of Finland and maybe on the hills in Lapland. Constructing humongous wind power plants all around the coast is not the prettiest option and the locals don’t really like looking at these huge white rotation turbines. The biggest downside to windmills is then the noise. Windmills with greater efficiency can not be too close to housing as the noise is already harmful. With only one smaller efficiency windmill the nearest housing can’t be closer than 2km. The noise problem aside, I believe wind power is a good energy source. Of course the energy production isn’t as efficient as power plants but at least wind power is not consuming all the unrenewable sources and it isn’t polluting the air or the earth. Constructing wind power plants isn’t with out it’s faults but what is? |
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