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Alternate Energy SourcesWINDMILLS The reason why I chose to do a endure on aerogenerators is because I would always driveout to Palm Springs and I would see these huge things that looked like something out of a wizard wars movie. When I got closer to them I realized what they were. They were wind nerds. Once I knew what they were I wanted to know what they did, my mom told me that theyprovide capability. Windmills are made of parts such(prenominal) as the rooter electric generator, speedcontrol system and the tower. When there is a large group of windmills, they are calledwind farms. Wind farms are located in deserts. Because wind mill farms are usually in thedesert the energy has a long way to travel to get to a town. Some advantages to the windmill is that its a renewable source of energy and its very cheap, the energy that comes will never run out because the sun gives off convection currents which the energy from windmills will never run out. Another great thing a bout the wind mill is it needs very low maintenance. Somecons to the wind mill is that they are not as people would like. Because the wind has norules you cant always depend on it. You cant save up wind mills for when there is anenergy crisis like right now. People complain that windmills are too noisy, but since notthat many people feel very close to them its not that big of an issue. A very bad problemwith windmills and a sad one is that the blades of the windmills kill lots of migrating birds. In the senile days they used to use windmills for energy to grind grain. In factories they would use windmills to saw wood. During the 1800s in America people would use the mills to manage water. Wind power is the fastest growing form of energy.