Wind Energy

- pros and cons

stervangskolen, Denmark

NIMBY
NIMBY is slang for Not In My BackYard.
Which basically means that people think that something is
a great idea, you just dont want it anywhere near
yourself.

You can use NIMBY on things like: Windmills, nuclear
power stations, highways and homes for people with
mental disorders, criminals etc.
DN
DN: DN is Danish Environmental Preservation Association.

Denmark has a lot of wind in the air, which is the reason that we have a lot of
windmills. In 2040 the plan is that all Denmark, will be powered by
windmills, or thats the plan at least.

Were beginning to place the windmills in the water mostly because it doesn't
annoy anyone and there's also a bit more wind.

Windmills and noise
Survey
Survey from 2011 in Denmark*
88% wanted more power from wind energy.
72 % wanted the wind mills placed in the water
14 % wanted the mills on land.
8 % replied dont know
*TV2/Megafon 2011

Survey 2012 (Jysk Analyse, 2012)
Building of new windpower in Denmark (Danmarks Vindmlleforening og
Vind-mlleindustrien 2009 and www.energistyrelsen.dk) 2008 2020
Windpower, of DK energi consumption Ca. 3 % 8, 5 %
Windpower, electricity alone Ca. 20 % 50 %
All in all Windmill effect Ca. 3200 MW 6400 MW
Number of mills Ca. 5100 3400

2008: 4900 stk. (4685 on land and 215 on the sea)
2020: 3400 stk. (2650 on land and 750 on the sea)
Vestas
Vestas was founded in 1945, by the person
of the name Peder Hansen.
Vestas is the manufacturer of windmills
in Denmark, it has around 17.000 employees
around the world.
Thank you for listening