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Kaylie Samantha Ryan

Samantha: Good evening! ladies and gentleman! girls and boys! welcome to our evening Generators of the future talk show, the show where we talk about pros and cons of wind power - an important thing to consider.. today we will have some guests on our evening talk show: lets welcome meteroligest Elizabeth. host needs to introduce herself

Kaylie: Hi I'm glad to be here. As a meterologist, I have researched wind and what to use it for. Today i will be talking about some pros on the show.

Samantha: and another guest that will be telling a little about windpower tonight is professor David of the university of Wisconsin.

Ryan: its great to be on the show. I teach environmental engineering at the University of Wisconsin. I have researched many ways to help the earth, and I feel that wind power is not the solution, so today I will talk about some cons or bad things about windpower.

Samantha: Before we get started,let's talk about the definition of wind power. Wind power is our electricity that we take from air. We get electricity for our homes buildings schools even churches. It’s an environmental electricity project instead of fossil fuels or nuclear power plants we use windmills. They are polluting free because they don’t use smoke or electricity. The windmill turns air into electricity by its big blades that generate mechanical electricity. Every day at least we have lots of electricity and we don’t even pollute air. So let's have professor give us some cons about wind power. this needs just a little rewording

Ryan:yes. #1 Windmills are expensive. One that could power a home could cost $35,000 - $50,000. It would take many years to get that money back. Or some people could run out of money buying windmills. #2 they use a lot of space. They need to be in big open areas, and they're not small. #3 when some people see them they call them big ugly things. They block views. #4 they take up room in the wild life. Areas need to be cleared of trees in order to build them, so nature is destroyed. #5 lightning is atracted to them and that could make them fall over if they are struck. #6 birds are dieing if they fly too close. This can cause species to become endangered #7 someone could get hurt climbing up to the top. They are difficult to fix if they break. missing one or two key ones

Samantha: thank you Those were some interesting cons now lets see what Elizabeth says about pros on windpower.

Kaylie: #1 the more turbines their are, the more electricity it makes. #2 it does not use electricity, it makes it. #3 the windmill generator sends the electricity to the transsmission box and the tansmission box sends it to lines above or under ground and those lines send the electricity to homes and buildings in your community. This means that it could be used to power just about anything. #5 It is renewable energy. It can be used (not quite) over and over and you won't run out of it. #6 it lowers your taxes by using windpower because there are tax breaks available #7 some people call them beutiful enviormentol future savers because they reduce pollution.

Samantha: now I myself know a lot about wind power because my day job is scientist so I will tell you some facts about wind power Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin are very popular of wind farms. #2they put them on the ground in areas that have at least have 14 mile per hour wind. #3 wind turbines are about 400 ft tall and cover about 24 sqr miles per windfarm. #4 on big wind farms their are about 600 windmills. #5 while the blade turns the shaft turns the generator that makes electricity.

Kaylie: I have a great interesting fact on wind power too. 600 turbines can power 140,000 homes.

Ryan: It works the oppisite of a fan a wind turbine uses wind to make electricity and a fan uses electricity to make wind.

Kaylie: That was really interesting

Ryan: We need these windmills for our homes these don’t have nuclear power plants that pollute air. Windmills don’t give out ashes or smoke they give us our electricity right out of air. In Japan a giant earthquake occurred and a nuclear power plant went boom. That is why these windmills are useful. Because they don’t blow up. We get fossil fuels from mines and other countries. It wastes money to go to countries. And mines are where we get coal so mines could collapse on miners. Oil and coal could run out and then what would we use… windmills!!!!

Kaylie:for more information, you can go to alliantenergykids.com 

Samantha: Well thank you for letting us teach you about wind power ladies and gentleman girls and boys all of us up here had a ball teaching you guys. See you next time.