{"id":27,"date":"2010-02-04T16:31:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T16:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/sciencenews\/?p=27"},"modified":"2010-02-04T16:31:15","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T16:31:15","slug":"livin-breezy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/sciencenews\/2010\/02\/04\/livin-breezy\/","title":{"rendered":"Livin’ Breezy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dan Conant<\/p>\n

With many countries setting goals for reductions in fossil fuel consumption after the recent Copenhagen climate conferences;\u00a0 countries are trying to even produce 25% of their energy from clean or renewable sources.\u00a0 But what about 100%?\u00a0 For most 100% seems ludicrous; but on an island in Denmark it is very feasible and has been proven to be possible.\u00a0 Located right off the North Sea, the wind never stops howling across this island, and the islanders are willing to everything on the line to be provided with clean power.\u00a0 Also, the islanders are very motivated as they have large stakes and own many shares in the turbines.<\/p>\n

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Turbines Off Of Samso. Photographer Unknown<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Samso island is home to roughly four-thousand people who are excited to move forward with their wind turbine expansion.\u00a0 One main reason for the islanders willingness to put up these turbines is that typically people living on islands pay from two to four times as much for electricity compared to people on the mainland.\u00a0 Although the turbines do make some noise as their blades whiz through the air and they take away from the serene look on the island; free power is more than enough to convince them to keep pushing forth with turbine expansion.\u00a0 Not to mention that once the turbine building is complete, the people of Samso will have the potential to sell electricity back to the grid, helping them pay back their investments sooner and eventually making a profit.<\/p>\n

Many in the environmental fields are pushing Samso island as an example of how populations can be freed from fossil fuels and almost eliminate their carbon footprint, but there are still many skeptics.\u00a0 Samso island is lucky enough to have a great location to be able to utilize the abundant winds off the north sea, and has plenty of space to erect turbines.\u00a0 In comparison, Samso island is significantly larger than Manhattan, NY.\u00a0 Additionally, the funding for such projects is very costly, but due to an enthusiastic local population the turbine expansion is becoming possible.\u00a0 Furthermore Samso may not be able to be comparable to major cities due to population density and other factors, but it is an important representation of how a green-motivated economy can be successful in achieving its goals for renewable energy.<\/p>\n

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With many countries setting goals for reductions in fossil fuel consumption after the recent Copenhagen climate conferences; countries are trying to even produce 25% of their energy from clean or renewable sources. But what about 100%? For most 100% seems ludacris; but on an island in Denmark it is very feasible and has been proven to be possible. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":275,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2100,2084,2099,1681],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-renewable-energy","tag-samso-island","tag-turbine","tag-wind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/sciencenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/sciencenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/sciencenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/sciencenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/275"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/sciencenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/sciencenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/sciencenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/sciencenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/sciencenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}