subject: Windmill Electricity: 3 Reasons It Will Succeed [print this page] Windmill electricity is becoming very popular lately. It has been around for centuries, but due to several factors, it is becoming even more popular just in the last few years.
These are the reasons we are seeing such a surge now...
High fuel prices - The way fuel prices have increased in the last 2 years it is no doubt why people have been turning her head towards renewable energy sources like home wind turbines. Because fossil fuels are a finite resource, meaning we only have limited supplies of all of them on our planet, prices will continue to rise whether we like it or not. We are simply just not finding enough of these resources to fuel our power plants and give us enough electricity to run everything we need to electrify. As we lurch forward into the future, we will find the prices will continue to rise as this price heat will be steadily turned up until we can't stand it anymore. At that point renewable energy sources will seem obvious to everyone.
Environmental concerns - We all know that pollution is caused by internal combustion engines. The internal combustion engine and the burning of fossil fuels that is required to produce power is the primary cause of pollution in the world today and the power plants that make most of our electricity are the prime culprits. They make most of the power and of course most of the pollution. As you take a step to produce power with your windmill at home you are reducing the amount of pollution created by a electricity generating plant owned by your utility.
Climate change worries - While none of this is hard science, we do have a gut feeling that the amount of pollution that we pump into the atmosphere is having an impact on climate change. While there is a lot of debate over whether climate change is really influenced by human factors and whether it is a true problem in the deepest sense of the word, we all intuitively know that we are contributing in some small way to a huge problem with multiple variables. We will ultimately never know how much influence we have had on that system.
These are the 3 reasons windmill electricity will work and we will see more and more of it in the future...
Reduced energy dependence on foreign sources - Not having to be dependent on the Middle East for our fuel would be an empowering revelation for America and Americans.
Energy from the wind is perpetual - We are on a constant search now for a new replacement fuel. Once wind and renewable energy really takes hold, that won't be necessary any more because the fuel source will be inexhaustible.
Roof real estate will work with a home wind turbine - There is a huge amount of residential real estate available in cities and rural areas all over the country on which we can install wind turbines to make power from. Roof real estate is the largest single source of surface area that can be used for power creation in the entire world.
In conclusion, windmill electricity is becoming a big part of the energy landscape for good reason - it works to reduce costs and it provides a concrete answer to many of the more philosophical energy problems plaguing society at the moment.
