Research from a wide variety of sources in various countries shows that support for wind power is consistently between 70 and 80 per cent amongst the general public.
Beyond any doubt wind power is the lowest cost type of renewable energy.
It is a simple idea, to make electricity from wind. But there are other uses for wind power as well. One of the earliest, original uses of wind was of course to power boats.
In a typical residence that uses under 10,000 kilowatt hours per year of electric power, a 5-15 kilowatt wind turbine should more than suffice.
Wind power is used to run large scale wind farms to run national electric grids.
Wind power is free of charge, it’s only the cost of conversion into electricity has to be paid for. This represents s strong advantage over fossil energy technologies.
Cost reductions, technology improvements and government incentives are all responsible to the rapid growth of wind power.
An ancient use of wind power was to grind grain using a wheel that was turned by the wind.
If the output produced by the wind turbine exceeds the draw from the structure (and/or storage devices, like batteries), the excess power is then sold back to the pubic utility company.
One of the easiest and most attractive ways for farmers to benefit from wind power is to allow developers to install large wind turbines on their land.