Wind Farm Concerns

Wind Farms Change the Weather
When anything and everything is built there are always opponents to the project no matter how necessary or not. Wind farms might not be the most important projects being invested in, but they do have the potential to help reach energy goals. As mentioned in the article, Obama hopes to have more energy be wind generated than ever before. Since wind energy is one of the most plentiful and easily accessible sources of energy it should be fairly easy to reach this goal. Some of the major concerns with wind farms is the negative effects they have on the weather and the danger it poses for people near by. Unfortunately, the danger of death from broken wind turbines is hard to avoid. The number of deaths from wind turbines is no where near the number of deaths involved in coal or oil production and consumption. As for the fact that wind farms change local weather, yes this is probably true. Planting trees, constructing buildings and even paving the ground also cause substantial changes to local weather. This does not mean that the weather change should be ignored, but rather it just needs to be monitored just in case.