Environmental Issues

Climate change
Energy development focuses on providing enough energy to fulfill the demand and reduce environmental pollution. Many activities within the society nowadays depend on energy for their smooth processes. Energy is the backbone of every process within the organizations and the transport sector, manufacturing and other government sectors depend on energy for their efficient operation.

Wind power
The traditional energy production methods have caused greater effects on the environment and climatic changes. Heating and ventilation involved in energy production causes rise in the environmental temperature (Burton et al, 2001). This therefore calls for the adoption of alternative energy that has little or no impact on the prevailing environmental conditions. This type of energy uses the power of the environmental wind to rotate the wind turbines. The rotation of the turbines causes the propulsion of the magnates and in the process producing electricity. Wind power is very effective when properly harnessed.

Advantages
Wind power reduces the environmental pollution by greater magnitudes because there are no chemicals given out as by-products (Burton et al, 2001). This is because the process of wind power generation does not involve any chemical activity or process. By using wind power, global warming is eliminated since there are no greenhouse gases produced during the process. Wind power also has an advantage of being a renewable source of energy hence it cannot be depleted.

Drawbacks
The strength of wind blowing at any given time is varying hence it is not a very reliable source of energy (Burton et al, 2001). The lower the strength the lesser the amount of energy produced. Wind farms have also been discovered to cause insecurity since they are likely to block radar coverage and communications and negatively affects weather forecasting. The wind turbines also pose insecurity to the birds and consequently affect their migration patterns.