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Wind power
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- 1How is wind power used to generate electricity?→ the wind turbine is a generator on top of a narrow tower.
→ The force of the wind drives the blades around - 2advantages of wind turbines→ No harmful gases/ green house gases
→ Renewable, so it will never run out
→ can be used in rural areas to supply energy to isolated places - 3disadvantages of wind turbines→ Make a whiny, annoying noise
→ interferes with TV reception
→ considered "unsightly"
→ unreliable
→ takes up a lot of land because you need many of them to supply a sufficient amount of energy
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- Hard. Physics Y9 Flashcards on Wind power , created by Aaishah Din on 06/07/2017.
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