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Wind Energy
Wind farms are clusters of wind generators that produce electricity, often utilizing a new, large-scale turbine technology that requires far less wind than did their early predecessors. Unlike conventional coal- or dam-driven power plants, these wind plants tend to be owned by private businesses (like Boone Pickens), not public utilities, that then sell their electricity back to electric utilities for distribution. And the wind works is catching on around the country. By 2006, 28 different states had functioning wind machines with Texas, California, Iowa, Minnesota and Oklahoma leading the way. Texas alone comprises the world’s sixth-biggest wind energy market. It’s now a proven technology that’s here to stay. The largest project, located in Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center, is spread over 47,000 acres in Taylor and Nolan county, Texas and has 421 wind turbines that generate enough electricity to power 220,000 homes (735.5 megawatts). There are now many sources of information for this industry, and growing interest across the world map.
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Wind Energy
Wind energy is the usage of a wind turbine to catch the energy that is in the wind. This is a relatively common form of renewable energy. It produces less energy than geothermal only because there are much larger-scale geothermal plants and geothermal energy has a longer history. Wind energy systems are similar to solar power in that there are lots of residential and very small-scale areas that have person wind turbines. For example, in Denmark, the country with the largest proportion of wind energy to overall energy, almost all of the turbines are privately owned, rather than owned by private companies.
Wind energy has a huge potential, with a large enough industry. Theoretically, with maximum employment of all available resources, it is possible that North Dakota alone could supply more than a quarter of all United States energy demand. Texas, Montana, South Dakota, and Kansas have similar wind energy potential. Furthermore, there are already some countries that have vast portions of their energy needs met from wind sources, including Denmark, with 20% of their energy coming from wind. Worldwide, the United States Department of Energy predicts that various wind energy projects could supply up to fifteen times its current amount of energy, which means that it would account for about ten percent of the world’s energy usage.
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