How the use of wind power helped in making the environment a better place

Wind power is the conversion of wind energy into a useful form of energy, such as for example using wind turbines in order to make electrical power, windmills for the use of mechanical power, wind pumps for pumping water and for drainage, or sails to propel ships.

Wind power, as an alternative to fossil fuels can be plentiful, renewable, widely distributed, clean, and it also produces no greenhouse gas emissions during operation and uses little land. In other words, wind power consumes no fuel and emits no air pollution.

Compared to the environmental impact of traditional energy sources, the environmental impact of wind power is relatively minor in terms of pollution. The energy consumed to manufacture and transport the materials used to build a wind power plant is equal to the new energy produced by the plant within a few months. While a wind farm may cover a large area of land, many land uses such as agriculture are compatible, with only small areas of turbine foundations and infrastructure made unavailable for use.

Surveys of public attitudes across Europe and in many other countries show strong public support for wind power. About 80% of EU citizens support wind power. For example, in Germany, wind power has gained very high social acceptance with hundreds of thousands of people investing in citizens’ wind farms across the country and thousands of small and medium sized enterprises running successful businesses in a new sector that in 2008 employed 90,000 people and generated 8% of Germany’s electricity.

How have people benefited from using the solar energy

Solar power can also be described as the conversion of sunlight into electricity. It can be an expensive procedure to set up at the beginning, but people will benefit from it over time.

Unlike fossil fuel based technologies, solar power does not lead to any harmful emissions during operation, but the production of the panels may lead to a small amount of pollution.

Because solar energy is not available at night, making energy storage is an important issue in order to provide the continuous availability of energy at all times. Solar power is an intermittent source of energy, which basically means that all available output must be taken when it is available and stored for when it can be used. 

I believe that many people can benefit from this type of energy source as costs are reduced over a long period of time. As a result of this, pollution is reduced and the environment is preserved more everyday.

This is a basic example of how solar energy powers a household on a daily basis.

How technology is having a massive impact in reducing CO2 emissions

The greatest way in which technology has helped in reducing CO2 emissions is through the electric cars. Electric cars have the potential to reduce carbon emissions, local air pollution and reliance on imported oil.

Although there is widespread understanding that electric cars can reduce carbon emissions, depending on the electricity they use can show us how effective they can be.

Even though people from all over the world can benefit from these electric cars, their carbon emissions are four times greater in places with coal dominated electricity than in countries with low carbon power.Where power generation is coal dominated electric cars are the emissions equivalent of average petrol cars, while in countries with low carbon power they result in less than half the emissions of the best petrol hybrids.

At the moment, Toyota and Honda are the greatest automobile manufacturers that have expanded the use of electricity.