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Wind energy is a promising renewable energy source that will not run out. The wind resources over Europe's seas could theoretically provide all of Europe's electricity needs multiple times over. Wind energy is also safe, with no harmful emissions and few accidents related only to construction and maintenance work. While wind power output varies, large electrical grids can accommodate this variability through spare generating capacity and offsets between different turbines. Additionally, wind energy can be scaled for applications ranging from small battery chargers to utility-scale turbines capable of powering thousands of homes.

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Wind Energy

Wind energy is a promising renewable energy source that will not run out. The wind resources over Europe's seas could theoretically provide all of Europe's electricity needs multiple times over. Wind energy is also safe, with no harmful emissions and few accidents related only to construction and maintenance work. While wind power output varies, large electrical grids can accommodate this variability through spare generating capacity and offsets between different turbines. Additionally, wind energy can be scaled for applications ranging from small battery chargers to utility-scale turbines capable of powering thousands of homes.

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WND ENERGY

Wind energy is one of the most promising energy technologies for today, for the 21st
century, and beyond.
The energy in the wind is a truly sustainable resource. Wind will not run out.
The wind resources above the shallow waters in the seas around Europe could theoretically
provide all of Europe's electricity supplies several times over.
WND ENERGY S SAFE

Wind energy leaves no harmful emissions or residue in the environment. Wind Energy has a
proven safety record. Fatal accidents in the wind industry have been related to construction
and maintenance work only.
WND ENERGY FTS WELL NTO THE ELECTRCAL GRD

The major drawback of wind power is variability.

n large electrical grids, however, consumers' demand also varies, and electricity generating
companies have to keep spare capacity running idle in case a major generating unit breaks
down.

f a power company can handle varying consumer demand, it can technically also handle the
negative consumption from wind turbines. The more wind turbines on the grid, the more
short-term fluctuations from one turbine will cancel out the fluctuations from another.
WND ENERGY S A SCALEABLE TECHNOLOGY

Wind energy can be used in all sorts of applications from small battery chargers in
lighthouses or remote dwellings to industrial scale turbines capable of supplying the
equivalent of the electricity consumption of one thousand families.

Other interesting and highly economic applications include wind energy combination used in
with diesel powered backup generators in several small, isolated electrical grids throughout
the world. Desalination plants in island communities in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean
Sea are another recent application.

Wind turbines emit no pollutants. A modern 600 kW wind turbine in an average location will
annually displace 1,200 tones of carbon dioxide from other electricity sources. The energy
produced by a wind turbine throughout its 20 year life-time (in an average location) is eighty
times larger than the amount of energy used to build, maintain, operate, dismantle, and
scrapping it again. n other words, on average it takes only two to three months for a wind
turbine to recover all the energy required to build and operate it.

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