Community Impacts
The impact of wind turbines on wildlife, most notably on birds and bats, has been widely document and studied. Additionally, research into wildlife behavior and advances in wind turbine technology have helped to reduce bird and bat deaths. For example, wildlife biologists have found that bats are most active when wind speeds are low. Using this information, the Bats and Wind Energy Cooperative concluded that keeping wind turbines motionless during times of low wind speeds could reduce bat deaths by more than half without significantly affecting power production. There is no water impact associated with the operation of wind turbines.
Reliability
Windmills are very reliable for many reasons. First of all the energy is produced by wind which is a source that will never run out, this allows the energy to always be created. Secondly wind turbines are designed to last more than 30 years and wind mills can be altered and adjusted through out years to be improved making wind energy a reliable source.
Environmental Effects
A wind
turbine does not cause many environmental effects since wind energy is a
renewable source. Wind turbines create an extremely low amount of pollution
when built due to the clearing of the land but once in motion the wind turbines
do not cause any pollution which is a win win scenario. Although, there is a
problem concerning some residents about the amount of land which wind turbines
take up. Even thought this is a concern to some people, in our opinion we
believe that we are using the land for a beneficial reason. If there weren’t
wind turbines on the land there would be factories, homes and so on which
damage the land but since there are wind turbines we are not damaging the
environment as much. Also, near wind turbine there is often forest and trees for
a purpose so this is beneficial for the future. The last environmental effect
that wind turbines have is birds. When birds are flying over the land site they are hit which causes some birds to have injuries and/or die. Overall there are very few environmental effects but every system has a flaw and even though, the effects cause very little impact.
Safety!!!!
Wind energy is one of the safest energy technologies around. It has been recorded that no member of the public has ever been injured during the normal operation of a wind turbine. The wind energy industry enjoys an outstanding health and safety record. In over 20 years of electricity generation with more than 100,000 renewable energy technologies, poses a very low risk to human beings. Many of the risks concerning the public are reduced by the steel towers (instead than open lattice towers), locking systems on doors, intruder alarms, and protective safety fencing around the area. Wind turbines don’t burn anything to generate electricity and therefore, produce no harmful emissions hazardous. Machines installed worldwide, no member of the public has ever been injured during the operation of a wind farm. The reality is that wind power, like most are safe to us.
How Practical It Is For Ontario
Wind energy is very practical for Ontario since we have very high wind currents and a lot of land space so we can produce a greater amount of energy. It may not seem like it yet but wind contributes much energy and we believe that if Canada focused towards wind that the technology would improve doubling the amount of energy created.