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Flashcards by Aaishah Din, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Aaishah Din
over 7 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| How 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 |
| advantages 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 |
| disadvantages 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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