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Why Is Wind Energy A Good Alternative Energy Source?
Author: Darren Chow
In addition to helping us lessen our expenses on home energy, it is also environment friendly. Unlike most energy sources that release chemical substances into the atmosphere, wind generators only uses wind power. It has no other byproducts that can damage our atmosphere causing ozone thinning and many other related problems. The only thing that the wind generator will produce is the cheap energy that you can use in to power the appliances in your house.
However, having wind generators installed by experts may still cost much. For homeowners, it would not make sense if you have to spend thousands of dollars in something that will only reduce your home energy bill by a hundred dollars per month. You would need to use and wait for several years for your investment to pay back.
To make this alternative energy source cheaper, you can install it by yourself. This is the reason why many homeowners now prefer to use this energy source. There is now an available guide to help us through the installation process. This systematic guide also has tips to ensure the proper installation of the wind generators. The guide or manual also contains information on the maintenance of the wind generator so that you do not have to contact a technician in case there something is wrong with your generator.
The DIY kit and the manual are much cheaper than the ready-made wind generator allowing you to save money even during the installation of it. All that you have to do is buy the kit, avail the manual and assemble it. Your wind generator will be up and running in no time saving you money from energy expenses. The guide is very easy to understand and includes some schematic plans to ensure that you are putting the right parts in the right position. If you are still having trouble installing the wind generator, you can look for help online.
Before putting up a wind generator, consider the location of your home. If you live in the city and surrounded by tall buildings, of course, wind generators is not applicable for you. As the name of this energy source implies, there should be wind to make it run and tall buildings can obstruct wind in reaching your house. For this, a suggestion is the solar panel as your alternative energy source.
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The oil companies would build BIG walls to block it and in turn, keep the illegal aliens out.
Pro: Its completely green, free power, but (Con:) they only work for a certain amount of time and leaves fields of useless wind turbines, which are more expensive to fix than it is to replace.
Geothermal generators only occur in places where there are forces which bring material from the earth’s mantle closer to the crust. That is why Iceland is the ideal place for Geothermal power because of the volcanos and earthquakes that occur on a regular basis.
I think you have to look at the particular climate and environment you live in, e.g. hours of sunlight, amount of wind, closeness to a suitable river system, closeness to the ocean, availability of hot-rocks and geothermal activity. All of these natural assets can be used to provide power in a clean and economical way. I think the best sources of “Green Power” are Hot-rocks/Geothermal sites and wave power as they seem to use the least use of expensive technology to utilise them. I think they would also leave the smallest “footprint” on our precious environment.
I think that the best energy source differs depending on where you are. It’s been said already that using solar energy in sunny places like California would work, but maybe not in other places.
I do not think nuclear energy is the answer. To me it seems very dangerous and something that should not even be considered as an option.
I think that just about every building in Australia (which is where I live) should have a solar panel and use solar energy for electricity and water heating. Some places in Victoria and Tasmania may not find that at all useful, but for the rest of Australia there is a lot of sunshine that isn’t being taken advantage of.
Other energy options include: kinetic, wave, geothermal, biomass and tidal.
Kinetic energy is the energy of something that moves. At the Science Centre we used to have in Adelaide, there was a bike you could get on, and as you pedalled it would tell you what you could power with that much energy. I think that this could be used so much – for example, it could be used in cars to make a car create it’s own electricity to move.
Wave energy is apparently one of the most difficult ones to turn into something useful. It’s done by the air pressure above the waves as they go up and down. The air pressure moves the turbines, which create energy. Provided it didn’t have a negative effect on the ocean environment, I think this would be a great resource to use.
Geothermal energy can be used for heating or to turn turbines and therefore create electrical energy. It’s done by pumping cold water down into the earth, and the heat in the earth forces hot water up.
I don’t really know much about biomass energy, except that it uses fermentation.
Tidal energy is generate pretty much the same way as hydroelectric.
I think we need to find ways of working with nature to create electricity. Exploiting unrenewable resources (coal, uranium, etc) does not help us in the long run. And in some cases could cause massive catastrophe if one tiny thing went wrong. Hydroelectricity forces nature to do what we want, and is also bad in the long run – dams don’t last forever.
I think the other thing we need is some kind of battery that will store enough energy from sources like solar and wind for when there isn’t any.
Why hasn’t there been much talk about geothermal power as an alternative energy source?
There’s a lot of talk about wind and solar power, but both sources are variable–the wind doesn’t always blow with the same intensity day after day throughout the year, and solar energy doesn’t do much when it’s cloudy and raining out.
But, with an inexhaustable source of energy just 10 miles below our feet, why don’t we exploit it more? I
If Iceland can do it, why can’t we?
Besides, with all of the drilling energy being used to search for oil, why not “follow the heat”, instead?
I’ve heard that just 5 miles underground, the rocks and soil are 300 degrees Fahrenheit, more than hot enough to boil water?
The way I see this, it’s like being on an iceberg (tectonic plate), and searching for water, (liquid rock)!
What Alternative Energy Source do you think is the best?
With all the talk about global warming and 4 dollar gasoline, what do you think will be the new energy source that we use. May it be Solar, Hydro, Wind, Electric, Ethanol, or even Nuclear power.
Solar Power: I think Solar Power, is an intresting idea, I mean the sun isn’t going anywhere for a while and once you have installed solar panels, you basically get free energy. However, I like in California where it is mostly sunny year-round, I am not 100% sure how Solar Powering works, but I am guessing in places like Washington and Oregon, where it rains a lot, that it won’t work as well as…
Hydro Power: Heh… I have actually never been quite the fan of Hydro Power, I mean it worked well 300 years ago, but it just seems old fashioned… I know we have dams and such, but you know there is always the problem, of if the Dam will break causing massive flooding (I can’t tell you the exact numbers, but I know that at least more than 50% of Dams are not up to regulation) and besides, in our society that covets water and despises the waste of it, I just personally think water is for drinking… Although…. my teacher once told me about steam powered cars in the 1920′s that went up to like 90 mph, which sounds kinda cool.
Wind:………. I know almost zero about wind energy, but if there is no wind, I am guessing no energy? It would work in places that are windy, but places that weren’t… And Im not even sure what the ratio of power is, how much wind you need to get so much power….
Ethanol. Corn Fuel…. When I went to summer camp years ago, one of the camp leaders drove a truck powered on soy bean oil which I thought was pretty neat. I would take Ethanol no doubt, except that you would need a whole bunch of corn to fuel just america…. And Im not sure if it is even possible to create enough to fuel us, every single day…. And even if there was, what would we do during the winter when there is barley any crop?
Nuclear: Why did I put this? Well Nuclear, as far as I know, is the most powerful energy source, and is renewable. *Sarcastically* So whats the problem? Obviously it is too dangerous to use nuclear power in a car or other smaller mechanical units, but if there was same way to make sure that we could use nuclear power safely, that would be nice….
Electric: Saving the best (I think) for last. I think Electricity is the most practical solution, I mean we already use it for almost everything else, and theres no problem of losing it (Except during power outages). Electricity is powerful, clean, practically infinite… I really think Electricity is the way to go.
Well, what do you think? What alternative enery source do you think will be best? Maybe you think more than 1, infact maybe all of them working in harmony to balance eachother will work. Maybe you want to keep gasoline, and keep digging for it. There is one final option that I have not heard lots, if any people talking about… A new power source, maybe the answer isn’t here yet, maybe we need to invent a power source that is clean, and yet powerful, maybe something from space or inside the earth itself, or right under our noses…. So, what do you think?
Which alternative energy source do you think is most practical?
There are many, many, alternative energy sources solar, hydro-electric, wind, electricity, bio-fuels and such, geo-thermal, nuclear, and the list could go on for a long, long time, but which energy source do you think is the most practical? Like in the future, which energy sources will be used.
I think solar energy is a great idea, and that we have only scratched the surface of what it could do for us. However, as of now solar energy has some flaws, for example you could use solar energy in California easily because it is sunny for most of the year, but in states like Oregon/Washington where it rains a lot, you couldn’t use it as efficiently.
I don’t know why, but I have never been a big fan on hydro-electric power… I mean, I know dams can produce enough power to give energy to entire cities, but there is always the chance of the dam breaking, if you’ve happened to watch a special about dams, you might have heard that many dams that have been inspected are classified as not safe… I dunno… Lots of people like hydro-electric, it
just never seemed to turn me on..
Wind… lots of people like wind power…. I mean, it, out of all the energy sources is probably the cleanest… its just that, they don’t generate a tremendous amount of power as of now at least…
Electricity is my favorite, thus I’d give a biased explanation favoring it, so I won’t even bother.
Bio Fuels… The only problem that I really have is, what if there is a blizzard or drought how are you going to get your Bio Fuel?
Like solar, I think Geo-Thermal could be used to generate more energy than it does, but I have always thought it as.. I don’t know how to explain it… sort of an old idea… I know lots of people use it to heat there homes but I think it can be reinvented to be greater than it is.
Nuclear-Powerful, Dangerous.
So, which source do you think is the answer? Or do you think a combination of some of the energy sources will be the future. Or do you think we will find a new source of energy in the future that will surpass all the current forms, maybe from space or something. Or do you think we won’t survive to find out… So yeah… what do you think?
What are the pros and cons of wind power as an alternative source of energy?
What are the pros, and cons for using wind power as an alternative energy source?
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