WIND POWER promises a clean and free source of electricity. It will reduce our dependence on imported fossil fuels and reduce the output of greenhouse gases and other pollution. Many governments are therefore promoting the construction of vast wind "farms," encouraging private companies with generous subsidies and regulatory support, requiring utilities to buy from them, and setting up markets for the trade of "green credits" in addition to actual energy. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) aims to see 5% of our electricity produced by wind turbine in 2010. Energy companies are eagerly investing in wind power, finding the arrangement quite profitable.
A little research, however, reveals that wind power does not in fact live up to the claims made by its advocates, that its impact on the environment and people's lives is far from benign, and that with such a poor record and prospect the money spent on it could be much more effectively directed. . . .
. . . Click here to continue reading "A Problem With Wind Power," by Eric Rosenbloom
(featured in At Issue: What Energy Sources Should Be Pursued, Greenhaven, 2005,
and Opposing Viewpoints: Global Resources, Greenhaven, 2007)
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![]() U.S. coalition of opposition groups Country Guardian the original British opposition group "The Wayward Wind," by Jon Boone incisive critique Articles by Mark Duchamp special attention to birds Report by John Mollica setback, icing, structural failure, noise "The aesthetic dissonance of industrial wind machines," by Jon Boone incisive critique of wind power's "aesthetic chic" Wind Turbine Syndrome, by Nina Pierpont adverse health effects "An Ill Wind," by Nigel Barnes extensive compilation of arguments |
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an archive of wind industry trade news American Wind Energy Association facilities in the U.S. British Wind Energy Association facilities in the U.K. Danish Wind Industry Association introductory technical guide, in English U.S. Department of Energy U.K. Department of Energy and Climate Change |
National Wind Watch (U.S. & international, with global and local feeds)
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