what are wind power's environment impacts?
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The blades of wind turbines kill birds and bats and tons of insects.\n\nThere is some evidence that the air turbulence disturbs weather patterns locally.\n\nThere are also problems related to making them in the first place, and when disposing of them when they are worn out.\n\nhttp://www.awea.org/faq/tutorial/wwt_environment.html
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Whatever is not sent via the transmission lines to users becomes heat, which is usually cooled using a fluid (eg,waater or air), depending on the type of plant, and released to the environment. This is the origin of "thermal pollution".
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i have no clue, not sure what this competition would be anyways, might want to include the goal of what the windmil will do, what size is it going to be...\n\ni'd say research with like those windmill powerplants, they are shaped like HUGE propellers i think, i'm sure that would provide alot of torque and be efficent.\n\nthe companies making those windmill powerplants put LOTS of money into research to figure out how they can have their designs make the most electricy, so researching what they have found would probably help your project
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The main benefit is that it produces huge amounts of energy for a smaller mass of fuel than many power sources, while not polluting the environment as badly.\nRisks include the left over waste fuel is radioactive and dangerous to all life for Millions of years until it comletes its transformation into lead. That and when the blow they BLOW taking out miles of land and releasing radiation clouds that travel with the wind. As a side note the French Nucleur power plants are mainly on the north shore facing england. If they blue the mainly northern winds would force radiation clouds over britain not france. Chenobyl is the best example of a nucleur accident and is still of limits after many many years, due to lingering radiation being deadly.
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Visit www.windfile.com
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how about looking at wind generators online and seeing how much power they generate.
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I have a small wind turbine which uses permanent magnets instead of a field coil.  The main benefit I can see is in keeping the electronics on the ground.  As the wind speed increases, the output voltage (and power) from the generator will increase as well.  I have a shunt regulator at the batteries to prevent overcharging.  Everything outside on the tower is very simple and less likely to break.  Other than mechanical breakdown, repairs to the system can usually be made on the ground level.\n\nOn a gasoline powered generator, sometimes permanent magnets are turned inside the AC output coils.  This eliminates the need for brushes and the voltage regulator board.  AC output coils have been designed to supply 120VAC at 3600RPM.  If the engine speed changes, the output voltage will change as well.  Output voltage will also change with load variations.\n\nI have more generator information online.\nhttp://members.rennlist.org/warren/genfaq.html\nhttp://members.rennlist.org/warren/generator.html
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Environmental ones I guess. It's pretty dirty over there.
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Wind energy is actually growing at a double digit rate, albeit from a very small percentage of the energy total.  Like solar and geothermal it's about as green as energy can get, so it is very responsible in that sense.   It will take strong government committment to spur it's use because it's still rarely competitive with fossil-based energy.   The Wall Street Journal had an article last week about the difficulty of the boldest experiment yet - a Danish island that has tried with limited success to get off shore wind energy as the primary source (it was going OK until the government withdrew subsidies).
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Sounds like you want your homework done by someone else..lol. Question is confusing.  15 effects of erosion, ok (you do the work, there)...what do you meant "its issue of this topic?"  the topic of environment? You're not clear. Look below for links.
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Over here on the Left Coast, on the Altamont Pass, there are windmill farms, wind power electricity generation to cut down on emissions.\n\nEnvironmentalists are suing to shut down the wind farms to stop the massive blades from killing the migratory birds.\n\nUseful idiots.
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All of this are plus gas,petrol and nuclear energy. Water, wind and sun are called renewable energy resources.
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There is no particular change in the regulations.  What likely happened, is the particular power plant negotiated with other plants that were more efficient in controlling polution and "bought" some of their credits so they could use these to pollute at a higher level until they get their act together too.
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Hydroelectric dams flood large areas of wildernness destroying it. If the area flooded is famrland that area needs to be replaced byt cutting down forests someehwre else. The cold water they trap kills fish. The dam itself prevents fish migration. The sediment trapped behind the dam is a major source of nethane, a potent greenhouse gas.\n\nWind farms kill birds that gt struck by the blades. Hundreds of thousands of birds each year. Wind farms are also a major source of visual pollution and noise pollution.\n\nThe growing of crops for ethanol or biodiesel production requires more petroleum than is rpelaced by the end product. That leads to increased pollution generaly and greatly increased greenhouse gas production.\n\nGrowing crops for biodiesl or ethnaol production requires us to cut down rainforests to produce the farmland. The production of those crops also requires irrigation, which disrputs the flow rates of rivers. It requires the use of synthetic fertilsiers which flow into rivers and oceans, killing coral reefs and causing toxic algal blooms. It reuires the use of pertsicides, with all the npormal environmental problems that causes.\n\nThe environmental effect of most alternative energy sources are negative.
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I guess it is an assumption by you but it can happen.  It would be a better world because it will replace the use of many contaminating fuels and will be of a great economic value.  Also the hole over the pole caused by industrial  emissions and others would have a higher probability of surviving.  Actually such a use is increasing and you can find windmill farms for the production of electricity.  They are contamination free except for an acceptable low noise.  Although great advances are being made on the subject,  more can be done.  I have found a lot of information about this topic in the Internet, as well as for other alternatives like gasohol and bio diesel.  Today  you can get heat from the sun as well as electricity  by using either common panels or vacuum tube collectors.
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The soil moisture and wind speed are both directly proportional to wind erosion.\n\nThe dryer the soil, the more effect wind has on eroding the soil.\n\nThe higher the wind speed, the more soil is eroded.
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Well that is a tricky question, because do you mean environmental like related to the planet or environmental as in a company's surroundings.\n\nEnvironmentally, all natural occurances affect business.  For example, snow could shut down a distribution center for a company in Florida, limiting the arrival of a new product.  But on the counterside, it increases business for a snow lodge, which is a positive effect, but one none the less.\n\nAs for surroundings, look at Porter's Five Forces.  Everything affects business, legal issues  consumer trends, new technology, all have an effect on how business runs.