Provides reference material for wind energy's proponents
Provides a guide to
- aesthetically pleasing wind turbine and wind power plant design
- minimizing soil disturbance and erosion from wind plants
- minimizing noise impacts
- designing "as if people matter"
- estimating typical wind turbine performance
Calls attention to European success in
- designing aesthetically pleasing wind turbines
- building model wind power plants
- building reliable, quiet, and productive machines
- creating market incentives geared to energy production
- establishing national goals for wind energy
Calls attention to the
- failure of "top-down" or centrally-directed R&D
- failure of attempts to build giant wind turbines
- success of the "Davids from Denmark"
Alerts environmentalists to
- the value of wind energy
- the moral quandary all development produces
- he need for action in support of wind energy
- the realization that wind energy is a business
Alerts wind energy's proponents to
- the origins of the environmental movement
- the philosophies that drive environmentalism
Debunks
- the myth that wind energy is land-intensive
- the myth that wind turbines are inherently ugly
- the myth that wind energy won't make a difference
- the myth that wind energy is unreliable
Documents wind energy's
- reduction of air pollution
- energy balance
- contribution to residential energy needs
- reduction of water consumption
- effect on employment and tourism
