Energy Sources Project: Wind
Important Reminders...
CITING INFORMATION
- You may not simply copy and paste information from notes, the internet, or other students. It must be put in your own words.
- You must include a list of sources you used for each slide in the speaker comments on the slide. It does not need to be in MLA or APA format, just include the name of the source and a link to it. "Google", "Yahoo Answers", etc. are not the names of any source.
- You should start with Google Slides of notes, classwork, and resources on this website. If you found a source not on this list and want to use it, let me know and we will vet it together.
BEWARE OF BIASED SOURCES
Energy is a very complex and political issue, so most of the information on the internet is biased (not balanced, influenced by opinion). The websites below are good places to start for information... but some are made and paid for by industry, making them biased (I put "BIASED" after their name in the advantages/challenges section). They tend to have misleading information that focuses on the advantages and ignores and downplays the challenges. Occasionally they have misinformation (wrong/lies). This is especially the case when a source of electricity is claimed to be "green", "clean", or "better for the environment". I tried to avoid websites that have a lot of misinformation, but many have a little. How can you tell? You should always consider the source of your information and compare it to other ones that are either unbiased or biased the other way!
LINKS TO INFORMATION ABOUT WIND
Unit Notes and Study Guides:
- Unit 1: Energy Types, LOL Diagrams
- Unit 2: States of Matter, Phase Changes, Phase Change Diagrams and LOLs
- Unit 3: Periodic Table, Subatomic Particles
- Unit 4: Chemical Bonding- Ionic and Metallic- Conductors/Insulators
- Unit 5: Chemical Bonding- Covalent and Hydrogen, Polarity
- Unit 6: Materials Science
- Midyear Review Unit: Sources of Electrical Energy Project
- Semester 1 Full Study Guide
How wind power works:
- Class notes about Wind Power
- The National Energy Education Development Project:
- Wind Energy Flow Diagram Packet (last 2 pages especially)
- Wind At A Glance
- Wind Information Packet
- US Energy Information Administration:
- Environmental Protection Agency (This site was created in 2011 and removed in 2017. The link here is to an archived version.):
- American Wind Energy Association:
- US Department of Energy:
- How Wind Turbines Work (a little more advanced, but explains how wind happens and has a nifty simulation where you can see inside a cartoon turbine and hover over parts to learn more)
- Video about wind (also in our class notes and embedded on this website below)
- Union of Concerned Scientists:
- How Wind Energy Works (more advanced, lots of details)
US Department of Energy video (we watched this in class):
How much and where wind power is used in the US, MA, Hingham:
- Class Notes:
- Maps and just a Google Doc of the Sankey Diagrams (made using: US Energy Information Administration: Energy Use by Region of the U.S. and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: Sankey Diagrams if you want to explore them on your own for fun)
- Hingham Municipal Lighting Plant:
- Annual Reports (how much of each source of electricity Hingham uses)
- US Energy Information Administration:
- US Environmental Protection Agency (This site was created in 2011 and removed in 2017. The link here is to an archived version.):
- Wind Energy First paragraph talks about where wind works well.
- Vineyard Wind 1 (BIASED)
Benefits & concerns of wind power:
- US Energy Information Administration:
- The National Energy Education Development Project (probably BIASED- you can see who funds it here and who runs it here):
- Wind Information Packet at the very end
- American Wind Energy Association (BIASED):
- Benefits of Wind
- Counter-arguments against challenges with wind power
- US Department of Energy:
- Union of Concerned Scientists (BIASED):
- World Nuclear Association (BIASED):