by Cody Keeble

Created on: June 16, 2009

Wind power is an alternative energy that can only work under certain conditions. Nuclear power has more positive benefits that we would see if we were to increase use than wind power and has less negative things about it. Nuclear power is easier to make than wind and there is more reliability in the energy than with wind.

Wind power has been seen as a big alternative energy source to the now used coal and gas. Wind is an alternative energy that works only under certain conditions, and those are that there must be wind blowing for the turbine to create energy. Only specific places in our beautiful country have enough wind to support a creation of energy that would support a community of people. The place has to be pretty flat because hills and mountains block the turbines from getting to the turbines. Tall buildings also get in the way so even if a city has a lot of wind, if it has many buildings the city isn't fit to have wind turbines. Many good places lie in the Midwest and on the coasts. The mid west is used for a lot of the country's farming, and its guaranteed that most farmers will not comply to give up their land to put wind turbines on. A "turbine farm" takes up a lot of room and one or two here or there would not create enough energy to support any one's energy needs. On the coasts many people like to swim on the beaches or have homes on the cliffs. It would be more likely to get some land off of a coast, but there isn't enough land unless every part of the coast could be used.

One benefit of using wind power is that it is environmentally friendly.

With all of those things getting in the way of using wind power its hard to actually want to use it, and even harder to rely on wind to supply our country with energy. Nuclear power has many benefits and very few obstacles to over come. With new technologies in the nuclear field using nuclear power to successfully power can not only be done, but is proven and risks wouldn't have to be taken with our power supply.

A lot of people think of things like Chernobyl when we say nulcear power. To defeat your fears, that wasn't the United States, it was the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union collapsed so is it really a surprise that they had a major explosion like the one at Chernobyl? We are the United States of America. Most things we do we perfect and leave no room for error. The first time in our country's history that we have allowed anything different was in the past decade. Now we are track to a better country

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