Monthly Archives: December 2012

Fuel for Offshore Wind

For a couple of decades now, people have been debating over the benefits and costs of wind turbines and wind as a renewable energy resource. Specifically there have been debates of the pros and cons of using offshore wind for energy. Many of the same arguments for and against onshore wind farms are used in […]

Assessing the Health Effects of Wind Turbines

  Greg Pica Professor Grace EK 131 Wind Energy 2 December 2012 Assessing the Health Effects of Wind Turbines   With the rise of vast amounts of renewable energy across the world, wind energy has got to be one of the most recognized of the bunch. It has primarily been praised for its many environmental […]

Wind Turbine May Cause Serious Health Issues

Wenyuan Yin Ek132 Wind energy is a clean energy that can be converted into wind power of which wind turbines is the most useful method to make electrical power. Compared to fossil fuels, wind power has obvious advantages. For example, wind power is renewable, plentiful, widely distributed and does not emit green house gases[1]. The […]

Wind Turbine Placement: Rural vs. Industrialized

Jeremy Lee Today, wind energy is one of the fastest growing renewable energy sources in the world. By creating a source of electricity without the air pollution of fossil fuels, wind energy has provided a feasible, “clean” way to power homes and other electronics across the world. From 2000 to 2009 alone, wind energy capacity […]