The rising alarm of diminishing fossil fuel in the next forty years must make the world to feel energy crisis sooner or later. The growing concern on receding fossil fuel reserves has urged the human folk to cut back their dependency on fossil fuels. It reports are to be believed, nearly half of the world's oil reserves are emptied and it's time for everyone to think of alternative renewable energy solutions to prevent fossil fuel extinction and minimize the level of pollution. The benefit of preferring renewable resources is that they never get emptied like coal, oil and gas. You can accomplish all your energy requirements with renewable resources like wind, solar and water (hydro).
It has been reported that wind is an expensive renewable energy solution as compared to other sources, even though, technology today has left no stone unturned in efficiently generating wind energy at lower cost. Basically, wind has been considered as an unreliable alternative energy resource. Like all other sources of alternative energy, the expenditure in harnessing wind energy is higher than other traditional sources. As a result, the advantage of using wind as a renewable energy solution is suppressed by the cost it incurred in generating. A study conducted by Midwestern wind farms in the USA has been revealed that they yield 17 to 39 percent return on the power consumed by them whereas the standard return on a coal plant is just 11 percent.
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