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/WIND FORMATION: QUICK WIND FACTS
DID YOU KNOW...
that on average, it takes only a few months for a wind turbine to recover the energy that was used to create it?
that wind energy leaves no harmful emissions or pollutants in the environment?
that wind energy is a renewable energy resource? The wind will never be used up.
that the wind industry today provides more than 100,000 jobs worldwide?
that on wind farms, wind turbines usually occupy less than 2% of the land, leaving the rest available for other uses?
that almost every country has some areas with good wind resources?
that a wind turbine is built tall enough (at least 100 feet off the ground) so that animals like cows, deer, elk, and horses aren’t harmed by the rotor?
that wind power plant electricity generating costs have decreased by nearly 90% in the last twenty years?