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1. What is the problem at hand?
The problem at hand is that we are wasting alot of energy and releasing profound amounts of CO2 in our atmosphere. Which causes the green house effect, which will ultimatley lead to Global Warming...which will lead to the destruction of our planet.

2. What is the driving force of the problem?
The driving force of this problem is, the little amount of care some of the people in this world have for our crisis. Some do not seem to believe it, and think that it is just the Earth's re-uccuring cycle; and we are heading towards the melt down.

3. What are poeple currently doing or not doing to solve the problem?
People are currently building wind farms to supply energy and using eco-friendly light-bulbs. However some people do not like having windfarms because they ruin the natural beauty of the earth, and the view. Some people also dislike having wind turbines because they have killed many birds and bats. What humans are NOT doing to help this dilema, is silly little things like, leaving the lights on, having the AC on with open windows, or leaaving anything that runs on fuel, on for no reason; these emmit CO2.

Quotes from people on the windfarms debate:
"When I first saw the so-out-of-place wind turbines and their Vegas-style strobe lights on the once quiet and majestic ridges of my eastern Oregon childhood home, I cried." — Lynne Stone, Oregon

"Until you see this up close, you don't understand the impact these turbines are having." — John Eichelberger, Pa. Senator,

5. Explain how it works
Firstly, a wind farm is a collection of wind turbines in the same location for production of electric power. Production varies with the wind. Individual turbines are interconnected with a medium voltage (usually 34.5kV) collection system and fiber optic communications network.

6. determine the amount of CO2 it produces or inhibits
Wind is a clean fuel; wind farms produce no air or water pollution because no fuel is burned!

7. determine the amount of water it can generate or purify
To clean wind turbine rotor blades just small amounts of water is used (rainfall alone does not keep the blades clean). Blade cleaning is very important, it eliminates dust and insect buildup, which otherwise deforms the shape of the airfoil and degrades performance. ..
 * WATER CONSUMPTION--CONVENTIONAL POWER PLANTS**
 * **Technology** || **gallons/kWh** || **liters/kWh** ||
 * Nuclear || 0.62 || 2.30 ||
 * Coal || 0.49 || 1.90 ||
 * Oil || 0.43 || 1.60 ||
 * Combined Cycle || 0.25 || 0.95 ||
 * Combined Cycle || 0.25 || 0.95 ||
 * WATER CONSUMPTION--WIND AND SOLAR**
 * **Technology** || **gallons/kWh** || **liters/kWh** ||
 * Wind [1] || 0.001 || 0.004 ||
 * PV [2] || 0.030 || 0.110 ||
 * PV [2] || 0.030 || 0.110 ||

8. highlight the best aspects of it
The best aspect of the wind farms is how much less CO2 we (the world) would be emmiting into our atmosphere, which, in time will generally stop Global warming. And quite frankly, I think they look cool.

9. describe how the critics would discuss it
This is a double sided argument, some people are in favor of this idea, but others do not agree. A large group of our population think that the Wind farms will ruin the view. They will take away from the Earth's natural beauty. Although some wind farms are placed, deep in the oceans, were they are hardly noticed. AND what beauty will the earth have in several thousand years, when we maybe be many feet below sea levels, thanks to US melting the glaciers!

10. If it already makes up a lot of the world's fuel/energy supply explain why.
"The U.S. has installed 9,100 megawatts of wind power capacity. The U.S. wind industry installed a record-breaking 2,400 megawatts of wind power in 2005" Wind Power is a rising provider of energy around the world, mayeb not the biggest, but it is getting there.

11. If it doesn't make up much of the world's fuel/energy supply explain why.
The reason why Wind Energy/farms do not make up much of the world's Fuel/Energy supply is because,of contrasting feelings about their appearence, and partially because some nations do not want to change their ways, they have bonds with other countries who provide them with fossil fuels.

13. Try to include quotes from scientists or policy makers. 14. Explain how it could help solve some of the problems or contributes to those problems. If the world had more wind farms we would not have to worry about wasting electricity. The wind causes them to turn creating electricity.
 * "Wind is the world’s fastest-growing energy source with an average annual growth rate of 29 percent over the last ten years."-Joseph Florence
 * "Global wind electricity-generating capacity increased by 24 percent in 2005 to 59,100 megawatts. This represents a twelvefold increase from a decade ago, when world wind-generating capacity stood at less than 5,000 megawatts. "- Joseph Florence

15. Explalin what it would take to do your thing better or in a larger scale. To get people to build wind farms we would have to show them how much of an impact it can make in the world. Just because they may not look good to some people they create a good source of electricity.

16. Explain who uses that technology and why. If it isn't used very much explain that instead. Everyone could help by using this technology. If every town in the united states had one wind farm it would make a big difference.

17. After learning about it what would you do next to change how its used? why? After learning about how much it can help I would suggest to people to consider to build wind farms in their cities.