Wind

This is an essay I wrote last year.  My writing has improved since then, but it's still important.

Massachusetts has an annual 25 billion kilowatts of energy production by wind.   Increasing wind power would be beneficial to the economy and to the environment.  We can do this by approving the Cape Wind project.  Wind Power is very good.  We should use it whenever and wherever possible.

Wind power is unique.  We know this because it is one of the only forms of power that doesn’t require water or steam.  It works with wind turning a windmill, which cranks a generator.  This makes electricity.  It is basically the opposite of a fan.  A fan uses electricity to make wind, and a windmill uses wind to make electricity.  It is a very quick way to make electricity.  

However good wind is, some still say that it is not perfect.  People say that it’s big and ugly.  They also say that it only works in windy places, although most of the United States has enough.   Some even fear that it may harm birds.  However, many species of birds will die if climate change is large, and a few individual deaths are a lot better than the extinction of a species.  Some complain that it has a lower capacity than coal.  This is true, but wind has no pollution, and coal has lots of it.  These arguments against wind power are overwhelmed by the arguments for it.

Some are of the persuasion that that wind power is the best thing for us.  They say that there should be more of it.  There is no repeated investment after you buy the turbines, because, after all, wind is free!  Wind also has no possible end, and is there for wind power is a renewable sorce of energy.  Wind is five percent more efficient than coal.  Wind power also has no polution what so ever, meaning that wind power dosn't have any emitions of Carbon Dioxide.

We have a large demand for power.   In this day, place, and age, we need lots of electricity.  We need more renewabule energy to fight global warming.  We need more wind farms to be a succsesful and prosperus civilization, to prevent and fight climate change, and to take advantage of a worderful, free power source called wind power.  

Music and the Campaign

Again we have more editorial content, but I promise you it's good.

First Up, More videos:

You don't know your way around the Net if you havn't seen this yet.

And a Satire:

Now that I've lost my last bit of credibility, McCain looks like he's got the nomination tied up, but I'm still wondering about Mike Huckabee.  Looks far off, but he is winning some big winner take all states.

On the Democratic side, we are in a historical duel between Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton.  Sometimes I wonder how history will remember us.  In the Epilogue of my History textbook, there's about five paragraphs about the 2000 election.  Plus a whole section on 9/11.  The book was published in 2003.  Can't wait to read about 2008 in 11th grade!