Wind Power

In the last few years, wind power has emerged as virtually a new science and technology creating new companies and new jobs, as a vital adjunct to solar power, and a tool to break the grip of the oil cartels and reclaim our beautiful land from the pollution that engulfs it. Wind power graphs measure the relationship between the speed of the wind and the power output (watts) of a turbine. Soon, this measurement may come to mean as much as miles per gallon mean now.

Enbridge Wind Power, also a Canadian producer of natural gas, is partnering with wind corporations and wind farms, discovering “new efficiencies” for wind power products.

Southwest Wind Power is the world's leading manufacturer of personal size wind turbines, for home wind power.

At some point, the pioneers of this new technology had to ask themselves,” What is wind power, and how does wind power work?” Wind energy converts kinetic energy that is present in the wind into more useful forms of energy, such as electricity. As water, steam, and any number of fuels have powered turbines, or their earlier versions, so does wind. Residential wind power, with the technology of wind power generators, in the combination of solar wind power, bring these applications into use today.

There are those, of course, who see disadvantages in wind power. The strength of the wind is not constant, meaning that turbines don't produce the same amount of electricity all the time. The countryside should remain untouched. Turbines are noisy; each one can generate as much noise as a car. Some find the structures unsightly. Pollution is produced when manufacturing turbines. The largest turbine can only serve four hundred and seventy five households when running at full capacity; extrapolate that into a town of one hundred thousand and there's not enough electricity for everyone.

Those are some of the disadvantages; now let's look at the advantages for wind power: Wind is free. Once built a wind turbine doesn't cause any greenhouse gasses or other pollutants. Even though wind turbines are very tall, they only require a small plot of land to stand on. Aesthetically pleasing to some. Useful in remote areas not connected to the power grid. Wind turbines have a role to play in both the developed and Third World. Turbines are available in a range of sizes, so a vast range of people and businesses can use them.

As the producers of gaslight said, at the dawn of electrical power: Unproven dangerous technology!