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2021-09-30
The United States is caught in an anti-wind power wave. Will wind turbines also harm the environment?
Two thousand years ago, humans have already started to use wind power. In the 1970s, under the fear of the "oil crisis", people recalled renewable clean energy, which brought wind power generation back to the horizon of mankind and gradually gained popularity. However, in recent years, many scientists and environmentalists have questioned wind power generation, thinking that its harm is amazing. Is this correct?
Let's first understand wind energy. Wind energy mainly uses "air flow" to work. Strictly speaking, the prerequisite for its appearance is sun exposure and then generated by air convection. The flow of the atmosphere is from a place where the pressure is high to a place where the pressure is low. To be precise, wind power is actually a method of energy utilization based on solar energy, and the atmosphere as an energy conversion medium.
With the technology currently mastered by mankind, just a breeze can effectively drive a wind turbine to start generating electricity. Its advantage is that it does not need to use any fuel and does not produce the so-called air pollution. Can such a wind turbine be very harmful? In fact, most of the hazards brought by wind power are reflected in the ecological aspects. According to data, in USA, averagely, there are more than 100,000 birds unfortunately killed by the impeller of wind turbines every year. More and more survey results show that wind power generation areas are not suitable for birds to inhabit and forage, and the existence of these buildings may affect the local ecosystem.
Wind power has accelerated the path to extinction of endangered birds, so Americans often initiate protests for this. Obviously these people do not know that more than 500 million birds are killed by the impact of tall buildings in the United States each year, and the number of birds killed by cats in the United States exceeds 100 million each year. Only one out of ten thousand birds die from wind power, and the impact of wind power on birds is far from terrifying.
However, this is only one of the so-called hazards of wind turbines. A study by Harvard University in the United States has shown that when the wind turbines in a wind farm rotate, they also cause the air with high temperature in the upper layer to be replaced with the air with low temperature in the lower layer. Scientists believe that this sign has enhanced the greenhouse effect. In fact, from the perspective of wind energy, it is inevitable that wind energy will drive the change of airflow. At the same time, from the perspective of energy conservation, this statement is unreasonable.
Nothing can be truly perfect. From the previous discussion, we can indeed see that wind power has unfavorable factors for the ecology, but to a large extent these effects can be improved. For example, someone has proposed that people can use The design makes the impeller look like an eagle eye when it rotates, allowing birds to actively avoid the impeller, thereby reducing their mortality.
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