Benefits
This is the most popular job related to wind power
What are wind turbine service technicians?
Wind is this type of energy resource
The impact that wind has on the air quality: maintains, degrades, or improves
What is improve? The more polluting other sources are, the more the environment benefits from wind energy.
What is a wind farm?
An area of land with a group of energy-producing windmills or wind turbines
Wind Farms produce this type of energy:
Clean energy which reduces air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.
This is what wind energy reduces emissions from
Green house gases/air pollutants
The definition of wind power
What is the process of converting wind energy into electricity using wind turbines?
The impact that wind power has on wildlife
A small one, but wind turbines can kill birds from collisions and changes in air pressure.
On a farm, turbines are placed this distance away from each other in units of rotor diameters
How much is 5-10 rotor diameters?
Wind is America's largest...
Source of renewable energy, providing 10.1% of the country's electricity and growing.
The level of carbon dioxide emissions produced per KWh
How much is 11g of CO2 per KWh
What is nothing?
Wind either maintains, degrades, or improves water quality.
What is the significant impact on water quality?
This wind farm layout pattern uses land most efficiently.
What is a nominal-centred hexagonal layout?
Early humans used wind power as...
What are Prairie Windmills?
The cost of wind energy per Watt is this:
Wind energy costs this much less per Watt compared to solar energy.
How much is a dollar less?
The amount of land turbines use
Less than 5% on agricultural land, with the remaining 95% used for farm activities
When wind generated from one turbine downstream blows in the way of another turbine, it causes it to generate less energy.
What are wake effects
There are about this many components in a turbine blade.
How much is 8,000?
In 2022, Wind energy generated this percentage of the US's net total energy
How much is 10%
The way wind generates energy
How does wind turn propeller-like turbine blades connected to a rotor that spins a generator and creates electricity?
Wind energy avoided this many metric tons of CO2 emissions in 2024
351 million metric tons, equivalent to 61 million cars' CO2 emissions.
The largest wind farm, located in California.
What is the Alta Wind Energy Center?
True or False, turbine towers are bigger than the Statue of Liberty.
True. Turbine towers are usually over 320 feet and the Statue of Liberty is 305 feet.