Informative Essay: Wind Power

H. Sterling Burnett, a senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis, writes about wind power in his article "Wind Power Puffery." He says that the benefits of wind power are usually overstated despite its limitations and drawbacks. Wind power hardly improves air pollution. When wind speed is not in suitable range, wind towers don't operate. This is followed by supplement power from power plants which cause the emissions of pollutants and CO2. Being similar to highways and industrial zones, wind farms are very noisy. They also cause unsightly landscapes instead of "green parks" which was imagined before. Although wind farms require the acreage of land hundreds times as much as common power plants, they just can produce a tiny amount of power. Worse, wind power affect negatively environment. Wind farms put some birds and bats in jeopardy.
I strongly agree with the author’s ideas. Firstly, wind farms are

In details, wind turbines kill birds and bats including protected species like Bald and Golden Eagles. The cause of this problem is that wind farms are often located in travel routes for migratory birds where wind blows continuously. In "Advantages and Disadvantages of Wind Energy," Roy D'Silva (2014) indicates that due to the staggering height of the windmills, birds are often at collision course with them, and a significant number of deaths have occurred due to this reason. Wind turbines are usually made of blades which rotate constantly and ferociously. Because the blades are usually put high up in the air, they kill birds that fly over it. There is a huge number of birds killed by wind turbines every year. Burnett (2004) also illustrates that scientists estimate as many as 44,000 birds have been killed over the past 20 years by wind turbines in the Altamont Pass, San Francisco. The decrease in the number of birds can put ecosystem in