Airborne! -- Wind energy at a glance -- History of wind energy -- Big wind: wind farms at sea -- Small wind: power for homes, businesses, and communities -- High wind: windmills in the sky -- Benefits of wind energy -- Drawbacks of wind energy -- Assessing the wind -- Impacts on wind implementation -- The future of wind energy.

As our world's population grows, so to does our need for energy. Scientists seek the next breakthrough in new technology while constantly finding ways to make current solutions cheaper and more efficient. In this title, discover what wind energy is, its history, how we use it today, and how new technologies can contribute to our energy future. Learn about cutting-edge types of wind turbines, including turbines at sea and turbines aloft in the sky, and how researchers are making wind energy more efficient. Sidebars, full-color photos, full-spread diagrams, well-placed graphs, charts, and maps, stories highlighting innovations in action, and a glossary enhance this engaging title. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

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