An article from National Geographic highlights the 10 quick reasons to be excited about Wind Power shared by Keynote Speaker Lester Brown, founder and president of the Earth Policy Institute:
- It is abundant. China, for example, has enough harnessable wind to increase its electricity consumption 16-fold
- It is carbon-free. Reducing carbon emissions is a key part of any plan to transition from fossil fuels.
- It is non-depletable. What we use today doesn’t affect how much we have tomorrow
- It does not require any water. This is in contrast to other water-intensive energy sources, such as nuclear and natural gas
- It does not use any fuel. Wind farm developers are ready to sign 20-year fixed-price contracts, Brown said, because the main cost associated with wind is building the farm.
- Wind turbines don’t use a lot of land. It’s true that wind farms take up a lot of land. But the turbines themselves only occupy 1 percent of a wind farm’s land area, which leads to the next point…
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