Energy consumption and the environment


Will Wind Energy Be Blown Away?

Wind energy is form of renewable energy. Thistrees. All specifics can be read in this
'new' source of energy is getting morepaper: The Sound of High Winds: The Effect of
popular and not without reason. In variousAtmospheric Stability on Wind Turbine Sound
parts in the world big wind turbine parks areand  Microphone  Noise by Frits van den Berg.
placed by corporate businesses yielding big
quantities of energy that can be sold asIn Germany wind mills where placed in the
environmental friendly or 'green' energy.North Sea. Although the location for this
Wind energy is big business. Big companiespurpose is very good, the park doesn't seem
profit from renewable energy but also investto produce the calculated amount of energy.
substantially  in  this  new  energy  source.The windmills often don't work properly due
to malfunction. Whilst the location is good
As mentioned before wind energy is veryand wind is blowing almost constantly the
environmental friendly. In the search forwindmills often just don't work. The mills
alternatives for fossil fuels this energywere not moving at all and therefore not
source turned out to be very lucrative. Thisproducing electricity. This project turned
energy source makes us less dependent onout to be very disappointing, but the project
traditional fossil fuels. It is important tois still running and it is believed that it
lessen the dependence on traditional fuels.will function according to plan in the
There are many reasons why here we willfuture.
inform you with the most important once. The
traditional fuels are predominantly in theIn the United States in Vermont the local
hands of countries in troublesome areas.residents were opposed by the planning of a
Therefore you are not sure if the amount ofnew wind turbine park. The locals felt that
crude oil you request will be delivered duethe wind towers would ruin their beautiful
to instability in the region. Also the pricelandscape. It is a landscape that many
for these old fuels is increasing and thegenerations have fought to preserve and the
current reserves are diminishing. But most ofcurrent residents our proud of. It is hard to
all these old energy sources pollute ourconvince people to share their landscape with
planet. But as always the beautiful story oflarge wind towers that disturb these
wind energy has not only positive sides.beautiful views. The plans for building the
Let's look at some of negative points aswindmills  in  Vermont  are  of  the  table.
well.
Although is it a good and economical of
In the Netherlands a windmill park is locatedenergy, wind energy is taking some real
in the north of the country. Although theblows. The advantages are clear and the
local people here were in favour of thedisadvantages are becoming clear as well.
windmills they changed their minds when theWhen placed in a surrounding where the
mills were actually placed. The residentslandscape is cherished by the people who live
were complaining about a constant noisethere, one could argue not to place them
during the night that could be compared to abecause it might ruining the beautiful
747 taking of. These complaints were notlandscape and spoil the beautiful views.
taking serious by the corporate businessLocals and tourist would find these turbines
owners. Therefore the residents decided tojust plain ugly. Also it should be kept in
research their complaints by the localmind that wind turbines with these sizes can
university. The outcome of the research wasproduce a lot of noise during the evening and
that the residents were right and theirnight. Beside these considerations it has
complaints should be taken seriously. Itshown that wind energy is not always a big
turned out that the windmills produced moresuccess and there is more progress to be
noise in the evening and night than duringmade. Technically there are some steps to be
daytime due to a higher turbulence at nightmade, but a lot of people are working hard in
caused by very specific changes in the upperthis. Let's hope that wind energy is here to
air layers. During the day there is lessstay and we will find proper ways to utilise
turbulence and the sounds that are producedthis form a way that we all can benefit from
by the windmills are diminished by the noiseit.
of local traffic and wind blowing through the



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