Notes - Importance of Renewable Energy

The following notes are taken from Wind Turbine Technology by Ahmad Hemami.

• Earth has limited energy resources
• ancient times, number of people small, pollution unnoticeable, plant growth rate renewed energy resources
• modern times
• forests vanishing
• fossil fuels causing pollution
• not enough fossil fuels, small replenishment rate
• Its everyone's responsibility to care for the environment
• Modern Commodities
• heating/cooling
• transportation
• manufacturing
• Energy consumption measured in
• kilowatt hours
• coal plant per kilowatt hour generates 1.57 lb of CO₂

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