WIND POWER AND THE REST OF THE WORLD

Mankind has been using energy from the wind for hundreds of years. Windmills have been used for pumping water or grinding grain; and today the windmill’s modern equivalent – a wind turbine – can use the wind’s energy to create enormous quantities of energy. A single small or intermediate-sized wind turbine can generate enough electricity to power a house, or a farm, while a number of large, utility-scale wind turbines can form wind plants or wind farms that generate enough electricity for tens of thousands of homes.

As the cost of generating electricity from wind power continues to fall, many electricity providers are starting to view wind as an attractive, renewable alternative to fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas which are not renewable.

Europe has experienced the majority of growth in the wind industry and it is hoped that this country will soon catch up. The “catching up” will depend on which party wins the upcoming election.

(Hint: It’s NOT the one that’s been in power for eight long tortuous incredibly expensive years – the one in which we lost not only the lives of thousands of young men, lost our economy, lost our jobs, lost our homes, but we lost the admiration of the world at large, all because of fossil fuels.)

We have just lost eight years in renewable energy growth and it is hoped that the next four will put an end to corporate greed and good-old-boy politics as usual that has prevented this country from moving away from the enormous burden fossil fuels has placed on our citizens.

The rest of the world thinks we are dummies. Let’s show them we are not. Let’s get an administration in the Whitehouse that will put this country on the track to saving our people and our planet.

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