Many people who care about conserving natural resources would choose to use wind energy to power their homes. However wind power is not an option for people in many parts of the country. Explain what the benefits of wind power are, and why it is not available to everyone in the United States. Please help, I’m in desperate need of assistance #notasciencewhiz!!!!!!!!!!
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I do not think I have to tell you that wind and solar energy is less stinky than coal or oil burning. However,
Some times the wind blows and sometimes it does not.
Some places the wind blows, some places seldom.
So, when the wind does not blow, you need one of two things to run your TV:
1. stored energy (battery charged during wind or water pumped upstream behind dam with wind power or similar.)
and or
2. a way to move energy from windy place to calm place.
Much work is going into storing energy for example as hot melted salt or in capacitors or huge batteries.
There is also effort in improving the electrical grid to move windenergy from windy place to calm place when it blows and o move solar energy from sunny place to dark place. They could be thousands of miles apart. That means very high voltage needed because loss is proportional to current squared but power is current times voltage so high voltage means low current and low transmission loss.
Well, maybe that can get you started.
Some times the wind blows and sometimes it does not.
Some places the wind blows, some places seldom.
So, when the wind does not blow, you need one of two things to run your TV:
1. stored energy (battery charged during wind or water pumped upstream behind dam with wind power or similar.)
and or
2. a way to move energy from windy place to calm place.
Much work is going into storing energy for example as hot melted salt or in capacitors or huge batteries.
There is also effort in improving the electrical grid to move windenergy from windy place to calm place when it blows and o move solar energy from sunny place to dark place. They could be thousands of miles apart. That means very high voltage needed because loss is proportional to current squared but power is current times voltage so high voltage means low current and low transmission loss.
Well, maybe that can get you started.
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