Make Wind Power

Wind energy is indeed looked upon as the savior to today’s energy deficient world. It has become the fastest consumed energy source especially for the production of electricity. The primary reason for the widespread adoption of wind energy is due to its eco-friendly traits. The major sources of electricity are either thermal-based or hydro-based, both of which exhibit a large carbon footprint. Wind energy on the other hand, produces electricity by rotating turbines that emit significantly less amount of carbon dioxide when compared with its global counterpart there by mitigating risk of global warming as well.

Steel is another element which has contributed endlessly towards the success of the so far installed wind power utilities. Statistics reveal that more than 80% of the world’s wind turbines are outfitted with cylindrical steel structures. The use of steel has also proven to be cost effective since the total energy investment to manufacture and install a typical wind turbine can be recovered within nine months after configuration.

The fact of paramount importance is the wind power can support up to GWhs of energy with little or no environmental pollution, certainly not carbon dioxide. For instance, in Denmark, the Horns Rev wind farm can generate up to 650 GWh annually and all it takes to operate is 80 wind turbines. This figure is equivalent to the annual energy consumption of the entire population i.e. 319,000 of Iceland. And if compared to the amount of CO2 emissions the results are estimated to be breathtaking. The CO2 emissions of the entire farm over its entire tenure are estimated to be only 7.6 g of CO2/kWh.

Estimates and predictions from knowledge discovery databases and data mining agents depict a substantial amount of 500 TWh of global electrical energy to be generated by 2013 with only as much as 155% of wind energy. Also this would prevent the emission of almost 250 million tonnes of CO2 if the energy source would have been otherwise. Moreover the emission of CO2 in the entire life cycle of a wind power system is also minimal when compared with other sources. In the 20 year life span of a 1.65 MW wind turbine, the CO2 emissions amounts to only 6.5g per KWh and that too from while it is in the production or manufacturing phase. This emission is negligible if compared with the 504 g of CO2/kWh emitted by the other sources of electricity globally.

Undoubtedly, wind power continues to be the undisputed energy source and has now become the first choice of countries around the world. For instance, in 2007, US, China and Spain had brought about a global increase of wind power by 27% by installing over 20 GW of wind power. With this, the global installed capacity peaked to 94 GW. About 70 countries or more are currently enjoying the benefits of wind power and among them Germany tops the list to be the largest wind energy producer with 22 GW installed capacity. Europe solely had accounted for having a capacity of 8.7 GW of installed wind power in 2007.