Wind Power: The Cheapest Way to Generate Energy
There are several to ways to convert wind power into wind energy and, subsequently, convert this power into more useful forms, most often electricity. Using wind turbines is a great way to generate electricity.
The global wind power generation actually quadrupled in the time between 1999 and 2005. Most major forms of wind power generation are utilized by the people of Europe. For example: the capacity of worldwide wind - powered energy generation accumulated to 58,982 megawatts. It currently produces less than a percent of what the overall production of energy in the world amounts to.
Twenty-three percent of this energy total from 2005 was accounted for in Denmark, Germany contributed about six percent, and about eight percent in Spain. However, the growing concerns about the environment may contribute to increasing efforts to utilize wind power conversion into inexpensive energy.
The majority of wind power is transferred into energy by the use of turbine blades. The turbine blades are transformed into an electrical current through a sort of electrical generator.
Windmills are obviously a much older means of using wind power, but the concept is exactly the same. Wind energy is ample in locations with large, full - scale, wind farms. Wind farms usually have huge electrical grids to serve a large population. Sometimes the wind farms are smaller for villages or small, rural areas.
Wind energy is renewable, powerful, clean, environmentally sound, and it has the ability to mitigate the greenhouse effect. Wind is especially dependant upon the greenhouse effect of sorts when used as an alternative to electrical energy derived from fossil fuels.
Currently Spain, Germany, India, Denmark and the United States of America, however, much more can and should be done to continue this environmentally healing method of collecting, dispersing and generating energy.
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Anne Clarke writes numerous articles for websites on gardening, parenting, fashion, environmental safety and sports. Her background includes home decor and gardening. For more of her articles on alternative energy sources, please visit Wind Power.
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