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Wind power utilizes wind energy to generate electricity through wind turbines, with a history rooted in early windmills. A case study in Wyoming highlights the state's significant wind energy capacity and its environmental impacts, while also facing challenges from fossil fuel industries. The document advocates for increased investment in wind energy to combat climate change and reduce reliance on non-renewable energy sources.

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Wind Power

Wind power utilizes wind energy to generate electricity through wind turbines, with a history rooted in early windmills. A case study in Wyoming highlights the state's significant wind energy capacity and its environmental impacts, while also facing challenges from fossil fuel industries. The document advocates for increased investment in wind energy to combat climate change and reduce reliance on non-renewable energy sources.

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Wind
Power
Jacob Cameron, Julia Feldman,
and Ryan Lee

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Overview
- Wind power is the usage of wind energy to create power and
electricity.
- Harnessed using wind turbines.
- History begins with first windmills and sails.

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Case Study: Wyoming
Story State Wind Energy Facts
Built on a reclaimed coal mine,
symbolizing a transition to renewable Ranks 8th in the U.S. for wind
energy. An example of repurposing old energy capacity. Wind energy
industrial sites for sustainable use. doubled its contribution to state
electricity from 2019 to 2021.

Environmental Impact Challenges


Collisions with turbines and
changes in air pressure have Strong pushback from coal and
caused “minor damageˮ to bird oil industries. Delays in
and bat populations, though, permitting and funding for new
according to scientists, not
projects.
enough to cause lasting impacts
or threaten any species.
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Pros/Cons
Cons: Pros:
- NIMBY - Very eco-friendly
- High initial cost - Very cost-effective
- Blade shatters - Sustainable!
- Barons get sad - Doesnʼt annihilate the
- Birds get hit ozone layer
sometimes :( - Climate change

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Conclusion
Wind power is a fantastic
alternative to other energy sources
and should be harnessed in a much
greater capacity than it is at the
moment. In fact, not doing so is
actively harmful to not only the
environment, but to humans as
well. The main reason we havenʼt
invested more in it is due to
lobbying by fossil fuel corporations
and barons paying for policy. More
pro-wind legislation would allow
less dependence on inferior forms
of power and pave the way towards
a cleaner future.
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References
● Adobe Stock Images
● wyomingrenewables.org
● Renewables.ninja
● Anon. Mr. Brush's Windmill Dynamo Archived 7 July 2017 at the
Wayback Machine, Scientific American, Vol. 63 No. 25, 20
December 1890, p. 54.
● https://windexchange.energy.gov/states/wy
● "Glenrock Wind Project." PacifiCorp. 2011.
● Bureau of Land Management 20110722. "Chokecherry/Sierra
Madre Wind Energy Comment Period Opens".

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