AP Environmental Science / Unit 6: Energy Resources and Consumption
6.12 Wind Energy
Notes
Turbines turn wind's kinetic energy into electricity.
- Renewable, no emissions while running, land can still be farmed.
- Drawbacks: intermittent, bird and bat deaths, noise, visual impact.
Practice
A drawback of wind turbines:
Collisions.
Land under wind turbines:
Small footprint per turbine.
Wind power is intermittent, so it often needs:
Wind doesn't always blow.
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