Wind Turbines Around the World Have Prevented More Than 637 Million Tonnes of CO2 Emissions

Wind Turbines Around the World Have Prevented More Than 637 Million Tonnes of CO2 Emissions

“Wind energy doesn’t require a fuel source…once we’re built we don’t need to mine for anything and we don’t need to burn fossil fuels which, as we know, are contributing to climate change,” said Emma Pinchbeck, executive director of RenewableUK, to CNBC. Pinchbeck also explains that wind turbines, while expensive to construct, pay themselves off within their first year of operation.

In the future, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) believes wind energy will be supporting over 600,000 jobs by 2050, in addition to preventing over 12.3 gigatonnes of greenhouse gases. A team of Stanford University researchers believe it’s possible to eliminate 99 percent of CO2 emissions by the same year, while also creating tens of millions of jobs…”

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