As our world continues to grow and develop, we switch over from energy resources such as wood, agricultural residues, and manure to new, highly valuable energy sources and gases. These modern energy sources help achieve basic human needs of health, lighting, and temperature, as well as, reduce the labor involved in creating the energy. This encourages industrial growth and development, but these new energy sources also have a downside. They emit harmful substances into the atmosphere, and as a consequence pollute the air. The problem with this is the negative health effects it has on human beings. As a culture, we are always looking for ways to improve, this topic being a prime example. Our challenge is to find a way to eliminate these pollutants
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1). In an article published by Charles Bryant (2015) titled, How Living off the Grid Works he states, “Wind power is the cleanest and cheapest energy technology in the world” (p. 3). The average price per kilowatt hour for coal-burning energy was 10.4 cents in 2006, while wind power costs just 3 cents per hour in ideal conditions. Just solely considering this, wind energy has become more appealing to our world recently (Bryant, 2015, p.4). Because of the low cost, over 400 American manufacturing companies construct wind combines. Not only does wind energy from wind turbines not pollute the air, producing a clean source of energy, but it also assists in keeping the electrical bills to a minimum (Hordeski, 2011, p. 290). Since the cost of wind energy has gone down drastically over the past 20 years, 2,400 megawatts of power were put in place in 2006 and around 3,000 megawatts in 2007, as reported by the American Wind Energy Association. With this being said, enough energy is created by wind to power over three million homes nationwide (Homsy, 2012, p. 127). To promote the installation and use of wind energy on both the corporate and residential level, the US Department of Energy offers incentives, such as tax credits, grants, and loans. This makes the cost of wind energy even
1). In an article published by Charles Bryant (2015) titled, How Living off the Grid Works he states, “Wind power is the cleanest and cheapest energy technology in the world” (p. 3). The average price per kilowatt hour for coal-burning energy was 10.4 cents in 2006, while wind power costs just 3 cents per hour in ideal conditions. Just solely considering this, wind energy has become more appealing to our world recently (Bryant, 2015, p.4). Because of the low cost, over 400 American manufacturing companies construct wind combines. Not only does wind energy from wind turbines not pollute the air, producing a clean source of energy, but it also assists in keeping the electrical bills to a minimum (Hordeski, 2011, p. 290). Since the cost of wind energy has gone down drastically over the past 20 years, 2,400 megawatts of power were put in place in 2006 and around 3,000 megawatts in 2007, as reported by the American Wind Energy Association. With this being said, enough energy is created by wind to power over three million homes nationwide (Homsy, 2012, p. 127). To promote the installation and use of wind energy on both the corporate and residential level, the US Department of Energy offers incentives, such as tax credits, grants, and loans. This makes the cost of wind energy even