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Will using more wind energy help to prevent global warming?

Monday, March 10, 2008

American Wind Energy Association
Yes! Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the most important of the global warming pollutants which are changing our climate. According to experts, if we are to avoid dangerous levels of warming, we must cut our CO2 emissions by 80-90 per cent by 2050. That means switching to forms of energy generation that do not produce CO2.

Wind power is a clean, renewable form of energy, which during operation produces no carbon dioxide. While some emissions of these gases will take place during the design, manufacture, transport and erection of wind turbines, enough electricity is generated from a wind farm within a few months to totally compensate for these emissions. When wind farms are dismantled (usually after 20-25 years of operation) they leave no legacy of pollution for future generation.

Given the scale of the CO2 cuts needed, wind power--as the least expensive, most developed renewable energy technology and the fastest to build--is the best placed renewable technology to deliver carbon emissions reductions on a large scale, quickly.

Will using more wind energy reduce health care costs?

Yes! In 2000, the Harvard School of Public Health looked at the human health effects from two fossil-fuel-fired power plants in Massachusetts. It estimates that the air pollution from the plants causes:

* 159 premature deaths
* 1,710 emergency room visits
* 43,300 asthma attacks

each year. Replacing as much of this electricity as possible with wind energy would clearly lower associated health care costs.

As published on
http://www.awea.org/faq/wwt_environment.html#What%20are%20the%20environmental%20benefits%20of%20wind%20power

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Will using more wind energy help to prevent global warming?
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