Wind Power Turbines
Wind Energy: Utilize The Wind Power
An oil shortage in the 1970s lead to a new industry that had interest in alternative energy sources, that paved the way for new technology that lead to using windmills to give off electricity. The wind machine works like an old fashioned windmill, the wind machine uses blades to get to gather the winds possessing the energy. The wind that flows over the blades cause them to lift and spin, the blades are connected to a drive shaft that is able to turn an electric generator that can produce the electricity needed.
The wind farms usually has dozens of wind machines that are mapped out around a certain large area to produce energy. The history of the world’s largest wind farm located in Texas called the Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center, this center has 421 wind turbines that is able to generate electricity to power 220,000 residential homes per year. With large scale of the wind farms that are usually connected to the local electric power transmission network. The power source is favored by many of the environmentalist as a different source besides fossil fuels. Which it is plentiful, renewable, widely distributed, and with lower effects on greenhouse gas emissions on the earth. Even though the construction of the wind farms is not accepted due to the visual impact of the environment itself.
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