Wind tools
Used to determine wind direction.
What is a wind vane?
The movement of air caused by atmospheric air pressure differences
What is wind?
Type of pollution that wind turbines reduce
What is air pollution?
When the first windmill was made
What is 1888?
Number of states renewable electricity will be an important source in by 2050
What is 50 states?
Used to measure wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
Winds from the coast caused by the differences in heat and cooling of the land and sea
What are land breezes and sea breezes?
The amount it costs get fuel for a wind turbine
What is free?
Two types of wind turbines
What are horizontal and vertical axis?
Wind energy has the potential to support over 600 thousand ___ in services by 2050
What are jobs?
The most common type of wind turbine. Has a horizontal axis. Looks similar to an airplane propeller.
What is a horizontal axis turbine?
What the ability to generate energy is measured in
What are watts?
Provides a risk for what group of animals
What are flying animals?
Amount of windmills used in Europe in the 1800s
What is 30,000?
Wind energy could avoid emission of around ___ giga tonnes of greenhouse gasses by 2050.
What is 12?
A (usually red and white) tube used to show wind direction and give an idea of speed.
What is a wind sock?
A group of wind turbines in one given area made to produce large amounts of electricity
What are wind farms?
Can provide ___ for livestock
What is water?
Amount of energy produced by wind energy in 2010
What is 95 billion kilo hours?
Wind energy will save consumers 280 billion ___ by 2050
What are dollars?
The first machines used to turn wind energy into mechanical energy
What is a windmill?
The blades of a wind turbine
What are rotor blades?
May require this to produce wind turbines
What are fossil fuels?
The top five countries using wind energy in 2021
What are China, US, Germany, UK, and India?
Amount of water that could be saved by 2050.
What is 260 billion gallons?