Why is wind power environmentally friendly?
It isn't. It kills birds who fly into them. And it takes more energy to make the things, move them, erect them, and maintain them than they will ever produce in their entire lifetimes.
What is expensive about building a wind turbine?
Power lines must be ran to the units, along with roads for maintenance crews to be able to service the units. The generators themselves and blades are also expensive, along with the tower itself. Rent or buying the land is also a factor. Newer systems also have inverters that will sync the power to the grid. All these factors go into the total cost of building and placing a unit.
How is wind power used to make elecricity?
Wind is caused by huge convection currents in the Earth's atmosphere, driven by heat energy from the Sun. The moving air has huge amounts of kinetic energy, and this can be transferred into electrical energy using wind turbines. Wind turbines cannot work if there is no wind, or if the wind speed is so high it would damage them.
"Yes, Wind turbines Cost money just one fan is as is as an airplane
What is the purpose and function of wind farms?
The purpose of wind farms is to generate electricity using wind energy as a renewable resource. Wind turbines within the farm capture kinetic energy from the wind and convert it into electrical power. Wind farms help reduce reliance on fossil fuels, decrease greenhouse gas emissions, and contribute to a more sustainable energy mix.
Are Wind farms used to transform the kinetic energy of the wind into electrical energy?
Wind turbines (in a wind farm) convert kinetic energy of the wind into electrical energy.
Not to be confused with wind mills - that turn the kinetic energy of the wind into mechanical energy.
Can wind power generate electricity?
Yes, wind power can generate electricity. Wind energy is considered to be an important contributor of renewable energy having no emissions of CO2.
Are wind farms a reliable source of energy?
No. Wind farms are very unreliable as a constant source of energy. They are also expensive to build and maintain.
How is nuclear energy sustainable?
nuclear energy is produced by taking advantage of natural decay in large nuclei of atoms. atoms with large enough nuclei can only be produced by very large scale nuclear fusion such as stars during a supernova, and making it on earth would take enormous amounts of energy. So no, nuclear energy is not totally sustainable, but a small amount of fuel lasts a long time. For this reason energy can be stored by scientifically making large nuclei atoms and utilizing them later.
Can you store wind and solar power for later?
Wind and solar power on a large scale isn't stored, it's just too difficult to make much sense. Smaller installations can use a stack of batteries to store the energy in. To use it, just hook something electric up to the stack of batteries.
Solar power, if used for heat instead of electricity, can feed that heat into a thermal accumulator, to be retrieved later, fed through a heat pump to raise the temperature and be made more useful.
What energy is produced when air moves large turbines that generate electricity?
Kinetic energy is produced when air moves large turbines that generate electricity. As the air pushes the turbine blades, they spin and convert the kinetic energy into mechanical energy, which is then converted into electricity through a generator.
What will the electricity of a wind turbine cost?
This is a question of how much electrical energy you want to produce, against the cost of the equipment to produce it.
How many wind turbines will you need to power your school?
From searching recent studies and owning a school powered Wind Turbines, Depending on how big the school is, is a key part in this. My school runs on 1.9 Billion Wind Turbines. Good luck bud.
In what places is Wind Energy successfully used?
Wind Energy is successfully used in western areas or farms or flat lands
Why can both wind energy and water energy be considered indirect forms of solar energy?
all energy on Earth ultimately comes from the sun.
When the winds of october wont make the leaves go then a frosty winter and banks of snow?
If you are asking wheter a mild autumn portends a harsh winter, one must observe that there is no evidence of any such correlation.
Some climatologists and meteorologist have suggested that climate change in the last few decades has produced milder summers, which seem to then be followed by colder, stormier winter. This may well be true, but others argue that there simply isn't enough data yet to say.
How does wind power compare to other renewable energy sources?
Renewable energy (solar, wind, water, hydro, tidal and wave, geothermal, ocean thermal, biomass, biofuel and hydrogen) is really the same things as alternative energies.
Alternative usually means alternative to fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas). So there is nothing to compare and contrast.