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What is the advantage of using wind turbines rather than burning fossil fuel to produce electricity?
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∙ 13y ago
When energy is created from wind turbines the energy is created from the atmospheres wind currents and no chemical processes are required. With no chemical processes(burning) involved the atmospheres chemical composition is not altered. Burning fossil fuel, simply put is the chemical process of changing a form of concentrated carbon into heat and carbon dioxide. Ancient life on the planet absorbed the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and time and natural processes sequestered the carbon from the ancient life into coal and oil reserves. When you burn the fossil fuel you are placing the carbon, that was once sequestered through the millions of years Earth has had life, back into the atmosphere thus changing the composition of the atmosphere. The results of putting the carbon back into the atmosphere is debated.
Example A: A pin-wheel is attached to a generator. The wind blows the pin wheels blades and the generator makes electricity. This electricity runs into a coil and the energy is transferred into heat and you warm your hands up.
Example B: You have a dead stick from a tree in your yard that grew for a year and fell off the tree. During that year the tree converted energy from the sun and the carbon from the air to create the stick. You burn the stick and warm your hand.
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What is an advantage to using a wind turbines to produce electricity?
unlimited energy, safe, no effort.
How do coal power stations and wind farms generate electricity?
Coal power stations burn coal to heat water to produce steam, which is then used to spin electricity turbines to generate electricity. The burning coal releases carbon dioxide.Wind farms have blades which turn in the wind to spin electricity turbines to generate electricity. There are no harmful carbon dioxide emissions.
What is the best way to produce energy?
wind turbines are the best way to produce electricity
How can wind flowing water and tides be used to produce electricity?
They can all be used to spin turbines that will generate electricity.
How is electricity produced without solar energy?
There are many other ways to produce eletricity without solar energy, you have other renewables sources which include wind (wind farms) and water (turbines in water) some dams have water turbines to produce energy. The rest of our eletricity is produce by burning fossil fuels, there is also nuclear power as well.
What is an advantage to using a wind turbines to produce electricity?
unlimited energy, safe, no effort.
How is electricity generate by water?
its actuallly simple, the water turns turbines and the turbines produce electricity.
When generators are spun by turbines they?
produce energy
One advantage of using wind turbines rather than burning fossil fuels to produce electricity?
No air or water pollution as from burning fossil fuel. No chance of running out of wind. No territorial disputes over ownership of wind. No interruptions due to striking miners or civil war.
When generators are spun by turbines they produce?
Produce nuclear energy
What exactly is nuclear energy?
Certain elements such as Uranium 235 and Plutonium 239 give off neutrons. When a neutron hits them, they split into two or more elements and give off more neutrons. They also give off a lot of heat. That heat can be used to boil water. The steam produced can be used to spin turbines. The turbines can spin generators and produce electricity. Burning coal, oil, or gas, can be used to produce the heat to boil water to produce the steam to spin the turbines to spin the generators to produce the electricity. The advantage of nuclear energy is that it does not produce a waste material that is released into the atmosphere.
How does a wind turbines produce electricity for the community?
by wind
How are geothermal and hydroelectric energy similar?
they both use turbines to produce electricity
How do wind turbines affect people?
Wind turbines produce electricity for businesses that hire people.
What is one advantage of using wind turbines rather than burning fossil fuel to produce electricity?
One advantage is that we get energy to support our lifestyle without having to dump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide is bad for the environment, you only have to look at the planet Venus with a 95% carbon dioxide atmosphere and global warming with surface temperatures of 400-500 degrees C.
What is the best way to produce energy?
wind turbines are the best way to produce electricity
How do wind turbines affect people's jobs?
Wind turbines produce electricity for businesses that hire people.
