The UK government is going to soon unveil its plans of building approximately 7,000 wind turbines. It is expected that these offshore wind farms will generate enough electricity for every home in the UK by 2020. Shows how serious Britain is about saving the environment. Even though the beautiful coastline of Britain would undergo change, it will play a vital part in Britain’s effort in combating climate change. If everything works according to the plans, then this would make the UK’s wind industry twice the size of any other country’s. Can you guess how much electricity these wind turbines will be producing by 2020? A whopping 33 gigawatts of electricity! (Current production is just 2 gigawatts) For those who are unaware a wind turbine is a machine that converts the kinetic energy of the wind into mechanical energy. If the mechanical energy is then converted to electricity, the machine is called a wind generator/wind turbine/ wind energy converter (WEC). I hope just like UK, more countries join in this wind revolution, and thus help to make the planet a cleaner and better place to live in. Image Via: Dailymail
