Wind Turbines

Due to the lack of wind in the United States, blackouts may become more frequent. Without wind to power our wind turbines, the amount of energy in the US has declined. The loss of wind energy in the USA is much worse then if a county in Europe was to have less energy. This is because there are many different climates and local geography. Also, wind powered energy is the leading renewable energy. Because of this lack of wind, INESC Porto was requested to make a new wind platform in order to reduce wind power and costs of the machines working.Wind platforms are similar to oil rig platforms in the oceans, but instead will hold wind turbines. The reason why they will be placed in the ocean is because wind is not obstructed in the ocean. These platforms should be operating in 2010 . I think this is a very clever idea and will increase the amount of energy produced by these mills. As you can see, scientists are coming up with energy solutions everyday to help improve our earth.

Link: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090204085311.htm

Link: http://www.windplatform.eu/