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Thursday, 05/14/2009 1:38:02 PM

Thursday, May 14, 2009 1:38:02 PM

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Wind Power Facts

The world's fastest growing energy source on a percentage basis

Access to low-cost financing

Technology is steadily improving (rotor blade airfoils specially designed for
wind turbines, variable-speed generators, power electronics, sophisticated
computer modeling of design changes)

Wind is "inflation-proof" – once a wind plant is built, the cost of energy is
known, and is not affected by fuel market price volatility

Wind plants can be built quickly to respond to predicted electricity
shortages

Domestic energy source

Inexhaustible supply – U.S. winds could generate more electricity in 15
years than all of Saudi Arabia's oil, without being depleted

If a wind plant is damaged, there is no secondary threat to the public
(such as in the release of radioactivity, explosions, or the breaching of a
dam)

Pre-construction site surveys are now standard, reduce threat to birds to
minimal levels; cats, hunters, glass windows, communications towers are
far more dangerous to birds

Minimal footprint, can be placed on working farms or ranches

No pollution impact on people, wildlife, or habitats

Sound reduced to low levels – a wind turbine a quarter of a mile away is
no louder than a kitchen refrigerator

No mining or drilling required for fuel

No toxic waste

A single 1-MW turbine displaces 1,800 tons of carbon dioxide, the primary
global warming pollutant, each year (equivalent to planting a square mile
of forest), based on the current average U.S. utility fuel mix

To generate the same amount of electricity as a single 1-MW turbine using
the average U.S. utility fuel mix would mean emissions of 9 tons of sulphur
dioxide and 4 tons of nitrogen oxide each year

To generate the same amount of electricity as a single 1-MW wind turbine
for 20 years would require burning 29,000 tons of coal (a line of 10-ton
trucks 11 miles long) or 92,000 barrels of oil

To generate the same amount of electricity as today's U.S. wind turbine
fleet (25,170 MW) would require burning 36 million tons of coal (a line of
10-ton trucks over 13,000 miles long) or 112 million barrels of oil each
year


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