Wind energy 101: 10 things you need to know

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2. What is wind energy?

Capable of ecological impacts as diverse as the gentle pollination of wheat and corn to devastating wind storms that keel over trees and homes, wind is all around us. But what actually makes the wind blow?

According to a U.S. Department of Energy webpage, wind is technically a form of solar energy, in the sense that uneven heating of the Earth’s atmosphere is one of three factors causing it. Irregularities of the Earth’s surface — that is, any variation of our topography...

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