Wind Energy usage in U.S. soars to new heights!

[asinjames]

“The U.S. wind energy industry shattered all installation records in 2009, chalking up the Recovery Act as a historic success in creating jobs, avoiding carbon, and protecting consumers,” said AWEA CEO Denise Bode. But there is still much to be done; it will take effort to keep it that way, and allow wind to flourish into a great energy solution for the nation. One way to keep on this track is national Renewable Energy Standard (RES), which help provide the necessary stability to keep expanding US operations in the wind industry.

[ribonzz]

Great! cause wind energy is less used in the states..

[EsylltDulcie]

Wind power is the conversion of wind energy into a useful form of energy, such as using wind turbines to make electricity, wind mills for mechanical power, wind pumps for pumping water or drainage, or sails to propel ships.

[John Marsh]

Small places, like a remote house or an island, might have batteries. A large place, like a city, would be connected to a "Grid", or electrical energy transmission system. If the wind stopped blowing, deep in the night, they would pull energy off the grid, from a nuclear plant, or coal-burning generation station, or hydroelectric project many miles away. A town on an island might have a large diesel generator.