Are wind farms worth building

Answer 1

This remains a very heated debate among promoters of green technologies.

Advantages:

1. Provides energy which is renewable.

2. Producing electricity doesn't let out carbon emissions (unlike coal) or waste (unlike nuclear power plants)

3. Remote areas can use it for electricity, as before they had no access to power plants.

Disadvantages:

1. It relies on strong winds. This means at times it could produce no electricity, and it can only built in some areas, not everywhere.

2. A wind turbine can only supply energy for around 475 households, not enough to power a city

3. They produce a lot of noise, adding to noise pollution in normally soundless areas.

Edit:

They take up hundreds of square miles of land that could otherwise be used fro things like growing food and developing communities. And though it may be hard to tell from pictures, windmills are simply HUGE, making them extremely expensive to manufacture and especially transport.

However, as stated above, once all the windmills are set up, the farm becomes and invaluable source of zero-emission, completely clean energy. Also, the land the farm is built on may not be farm-able or fir for development, meaning that land is being put to its best use, not wasted.

Some say the benefits far outweigh the difficulties, and others claim the opposite, but all things have pros and cons, and wind farms are no exception. I'm sorry I can't give you a direct answer, but then again, no one can! I hope i was able to help you!

Second Edit:

(This question should probably be closed and a discussion made for it.)

Response to Edit number 1. ^

For the "windmills are simply HUGE" part of your argument, there are variants in the size of windmills, since farms usually only use a few small ones as they are only providing electricity for themselves. BUT, if the electricity from wind farms is being used for cities or big towns, then yes, the wind farms can be "HUGE".