wind?
The day is hot and sunny allowing you to go outside wearing shorts, a tee shirt, and flip flops. The wind tugs a strand of your hair into your face and you casually flip it behind your ear as you continue to walk and bask in the suns warmth. The moment between you and the wind goes unoticed but perhaps we can take a moment to appreciate what the wind is and what the wind means in our lives.
The term renewable energy is used to describe wind because as long as the sun shines wind is blowing and we can use that energy of wind to create energy. The effect of wind is caused by the suns rays hitting the planes of the earth and heating the Earth up unevenly. The heat that rises from the Earth over land causes the cool air above it to rush in and take its place, creating the effect known as wind.
People have recently learned how to harness this wind and use it as a source of energy. Using the Earths natural resources to fuel our lives is far better on the environment and this is a source of energy we can continue to use without running out…Unless the sun stops shining and in that case we have bigger problems!
The next time that the wind blows chunks of hair in your face take a moment to engoy it who knows this might be the gust that is providing energy to your house!
