I am interested in wind farms and I going to make a wind turbine for the science fair any websites for tips and directions

I was thinking about wind turbines. They are becoming increasingly popular and it made me think about how it may affect the world climate. Large areas that have thousands of wind turbines would almost certainly alter the wind patterns in the immediate area. Could this cause adverse or unwanted affects? Especially if you have many wind farms all over the world. After all, no one thought when they first started firing up coal power plants that they'd be putting the world climate at risk.

Visually, would you prefer solar farms or wind farms?

I need to answer this question: a single windmill can produce some energy, explain the use of wind farms and where wind energy can be used to power a whole city?

It is for a science report, so please give as much detail as possible!

How many wind mills are in offshore and onshore wind farms?

I'm thinking of going into this business as a career move but cannot find information. What kind of salary do the people who work on wind farms make?

Many of the birds are protected species as well but somehow, its ok. Golden Eagles. ,000 fine and up to 5 years in the pen for shooting one but 200 are killed at 1 CA wind farm per year. Where is the EPA on this one?

http://www.wwltv.com/home/Small-lizard-threatens-oil-production-in-West-Texas-123835059.html

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203706604574376543308399048.html

Oil drillers are fined, wind farms are not. Oil drillers cover their equipment with nets now and have very few bird deaths.
No I didn't hug a tree but I did feed the birds.

Positives and negatives about Wind Farms

Assuming enough wind farms are made.
The power could come from windfarms miles away!

i am looking forward all kinds of generators which can be used in wind turbine(wind farms).
i search about real types and industrial of generators, not mankinds or labratoars ones.
thank you

I've got homework to do and want to know how many wind farms (not offshore) are in Denmark.

hi, I'm writing an essay for school on whether South Australia should be using wind farms to generate electricity, and I wanted to know if the money it takes to put up wind turbines comes out of taxpayers pockets?

Help is greatly appreciated,

Chelsea.

I was driving myself and my girlfriend out to her parents place the other day and passed one of those wind farms. It got me wondering how much do those commercial wind farms make annually in a windy part of the country? Im not interested in trying to buy one as im sure they probably cost millions to construct and maintain but I am curious to know.

Is it a valid argument to claim that: renewable energy is often produced through things such as wind farms which are often placed on working farms and land. Therefore the income gained by the farmers/ land owners through the use of their farms/land can help to support them, therefore supporting local produce and the local economy??
Or is this just too far feched?!

what are the benefits of off shore wind farms ?

please add detail xx

The Camelot Kennedys are big supporters of "green" energy like wind farms..... except when they are close enough to be seen from the Kennedy compound. Since they Hyannis Port area, with plentiful wind to spin the wind turbines, is a bad place, where would the "for the little guy" Kennedys propose we put them?
LOL... "ask the enginners", say the leftists. Not the Kennedys' fault. Uhh, sport, that had already been accomplished when the decision was made to put them in viewing distance of Fat Ted and Co.'s compound.

This is a weird one... my boyfriend and I want to move to Ireland (he's from there) and we're looking into jobs for him. He's an electrician, but NOT an electrical engineer. He'd love to get a job working on one of the new wind farms, but all the postings we've seen are for jobs at upper-management level. We figure they're outsourcing the more physical-labor-intensive jobs, but have no idea how to find one of those.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
I should clarify: He's not an engineer and doesn't know the industry. He's an all-around knowledgeable electrician. We're just looking for information on which contracting companies might be doing the labor.

As a right wing conservative, I hate the environment. When you drive hybrid cars, you ride with Hitler!

Hybrid cars are only for homosexual Liberals.

Wind farms - communist things that I hate because I don't understand it.

I believe we need more factories that shoot up soot for the sake of profit and the free market. The government shouldn't intrude and regulate the amount of carbon monoxide we want to shoot in to the atmosphere. Why does the DMV require that I have to get a smog check every 2 years on my car? That's the socialist government intruding on my individual liberties! And freedom!

The right thing to do is to deregulate everything and let Americans drive bicycles with diesel truck engines if we want. The government should stop telling me to stop dumping used motor oil in the storm drain! I'll dump as much as I want!

Solar power is Marxist & communist in nature -- it's taking a FREE handout of energy from a collective source and allowing the REDISTRIBUTION of energy to heat homes and power lights! And that hurts the Big Oil corporations that would prefer you use coal-based energy! It goes against capitalism and the free market!

Environmentalism is for pansies & terrorists!

Socialism! Marxism! Muslims! Kenya! Birth Certificate! Bill Ayers! Van Jones! Trying to take away our guns!

I'm not sure why I said that last line... but hopefully someone will get scared and just go along with everything else I said.

- The Rightwing Conservative

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/wind-power-equal-job-power/story?id=9759949

Nearly billion in money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has been spent on wind power, funding the creation of enough new wind farms to power 2.4 million homes over the past year. But the study found that nearly 80 percent of that money has gone to foreign manufacturers of wind turbines.

So Where Are the Green Jobs Obama promised?
Steel Rat - You didn't read the story and what you are whining about is not addressed in this story.
Steel rat - Last time I was in California I literally saw hundreds, possibly thousands of the windmills generating electric.

What you don't see to understand is that my article states that the money spent in the bailout did not create any jobs here in the USA. While we have manufacturers here in the USA, the money was shipped to an overseas manufacturer.

This was not what Obama promised and I am pointing this out.

If a wind farm works, more power too them. But I should not have to subsidize it with tax money. If it stands on its own and it can make money, then that is great. Otherwise don't force me to send tax money to Washington to subsidize a private company.

Who would oppose the development of wind farms and who would support the development?

a resident overlooking the new development in favour of renewable energy

a NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) supporter of wind energy

an electricity-generating company director

a member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

a member of Greenpeace for action against climate change

a resident who wants cheap electricity

Give reasons

I have been wondering about the wind power, like windmills lately, here's some other things i wondered
Where is one of the largest wind farms in the world? how many wind turbines are on that largest wind farm?
which country generated the mostwind energy? How much did they generate in 2003?
which country generated 686 megawatts of wind enerrgy?
U.S. wind energy can power how many U.S. homes?

I recall the unintended consequences of forced use of ethanol (more toxic than regular gasoline) and the ban on DDT, the latter of which resulted in the loss of millions of lives lost to malaria. Wouldn't it be prudent to avoid such disasters? [below are excerpts. Please see link for entire article]

Can large wind farms tweak weather downwind?

By Peter N. Spotts | 06.24.09

A battle over a wind farm in our backyard – off the island of Martha’s Vineyard – has shown that folks can raise a host of objections over unintended consequences, real or imagined.
They’ve included hazards to boaters, hazards to endangered migratory birds, hazards to aircraft flying between the Vineyard and the mainland, and of course, hazards to the property value of big-buck homes with scenic views of Nantucket Sound. Oh yes, one can’t forget the installation of transmission lines to link the turbines to the utility grid. And that’s just for one relatively small wind farm.
Now researchers are looking at another potential “unintended consequence” – the likelihood that collectively, groups of large wind farms in one region could alter weather patterns downwind of the turbines in another region.
So far, evidence suggests that large collections of wind farms could have small but measurable effects on atmospheric circulation patterns, cloudiness, and temperatures over substantial distances.
……. if the whole Midwest “is somewhat roughened over a large area, then you could imagine having a large-scale impact on the atmosphere.”
…….. he and his colleagues are trying to refine their estimates with an eye toward wind farms of the future – “how to design wind farms in ways that make them innocuous,” he says.
At first blush, the thought of vast collections of wind farms affecting weather patterns seems a bit far-fetched. But scientists have long studied the effects that changes in the roughness of Earth’s surface can have on low-level wind patterns. And large, regional collections of wind turbines would rough up the surface. In effect, it’s like planting very tall trees (roughly 300 feet high).
Last year, Mr. Kirk-Davidoff and a colleague, took a more detailed look to figure out how and why the climate changed. They found that the presence of rougher landscape over large areas introduced “appreciable” changes in wind, temperature, and cloudiness.
At the moment, Kirk-Davidoff acknowledges, the work is “pretty speculative.” Real-world measurements of wind farms’ effect on wind patterns are few and far between. In 2005, scientists in Europe published a study of the effects that large off-shore wind farms had on wind patterns, using satellite-based radar. But no one so far has built collections of wind farms on continental scales.
Yet “the possibility of relying heavily on wind power is not unreasonable,” he says – especially in light of wind-energy’s potential as outlined in the paper from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
For Kirk-Davidoff, his work involves examining potential unintended consequences – at least the ones people can think up – “as the technology ramps up, so hopefully we don’t get into really surprising consequences before we have a chance to realize what they might be.”

http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/06/24/can-large-wind-farms-tweak-weather-downwind/

Paul... you are absolutely wrong!..
"Finkel writes that Robert Gwadz, a malaria specialist at the US National Institutes of Health, says the worldwide ban on DDT that eventually followed the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, which condemned use of the chemical, "may have killed 20 million children." The quote by Gwadz does not include the huge number of adults that have also died since "DDT become nearly impossible to procure" because "the chemical was outlawed by most of the world for agricultural use".

The deaths caused by malaria, however, are only the beginning of the problems caused by the disease. A far greater number of the continent's people are regularly afflicted by malaria, which often causes life-l

To sort out all the problems about where to situate wind farms, can we not just put a small wind turbine on top of each electricity pole? The electricity generated can be put into the wires and transported round the network.

Green solution. Done.

The most common pro-wind argument is that we are already losing lots of birds due to collisions with buildings, cars.... etc. Does this mean that Wind Farm supporters feel that they are entitled to kill their share of wildlife? Should the Wind industry be forced to pay the hefty fines that the oil industry pays for similar violations? Should Obama order a moratorium on any further wind farm development until we can be guaranteed that they will be safe to wildlife and the environment (as he has done with offshore oil development? Your thoughts?

"Bird deaths soar at wind farms"

by: Associated Press
Monday, September 21, 2009

"For years, a huge wind farm in California's San Joaquin Valley was slaughtering thousands of birds, including golden eagles, red-tailed hawks and burrowing owls.

The raptors would get sliced up by the blades on the roughly 5,400 turbines in Altamont Pass, or electrocuted by the wind farm's power lines. Scientists, wildlife agencies and turbine experts came together in an attempt to solve the problem. The result?

Protective measures put in place in an effort to reduce deaths by 50% failed. Deaths in fact soared for three of four bird species studied, said the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area Bird Fatality Study.

The slaughter at Altamont Pass is being raised by avian scientists who say the drive among environmentalists to rapidly boost U.S. wind farm power 20 times could lead to massive bird losses and even extinctions.

New wind projects "have the potential of killing a lot of migratory birds," said Michael Fry, director of conservation advocacy at the American Bird Conservancy in Washington.

"There's concern because of the scale of what we're talking about," said Shawn Smallwood, a Davis, Calif., ecologist and researcher. "Just the sheer numbers of turbines we're talking about - we're going to be killing so many raptors until there are no more raptors, in my opinion."

Non-wind utilizes fined heavily

Some see a double standard for wind farms.

ExxonMobil pleaded guilty in federal court in August to the deaths of 85 birds at its operations in several states, according to the Department of Justice. The birds were protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, and Exxon agreed to pay 0,000 in fines and fees. In July, the PacifiCorp utility of Oregon was ordered to pay .5 million in fines, restitution and improvements to their equipment after 232 eagles were killed by running into power lines in Wyoming, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

That is far fewer than the estimated 10,000 birds (nearly all protected by the migratory bird law) that are being killed every year at Altamont, according to Robert Bryce, author of Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of "Energy Independence.""

http://www.tulsaworld.com/site/printerfriendlystory.aspx?articleid=20090921_298_0_Fryasu871005

Trevor..... So what you are saying is that the Wind industry wants its share of the killing!!! Sheesh!!