In order to aid you in your webquest below we provide you with a list of websites you may find useful. The list is by no means comprehensive and we do encourage you to engage in an open exploratory process of your own making, of course, informed by the guidelines below. The order in which the websites have been enumerated is not entirely fortuitous; you may find that the initial ones are more general and thus aimed at ensuring you become fairly well-acquainted with the fundamentals before you proceed to investigate the finer details related to this topic.

 

 

Brief documentary on renewable energy sources:

http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/aeve/movieLauncher.html?movie=smil/alt_energy_source.mov

 

History of wind power:

http://www.newhomewindpower.com/history-of-wind-power.html

 

Wind turbine technology:

http://www.windenergyfoundation.org/about-wind-energy/how-wind-works

http://www.ewea.org/wind-energy-basics/how-a-wind-turbine-works/

 

Wind turbine-caused noise polution:

http://www.gereports.com/how-loud-is-a-wind-turbine/

 

Wind energy production in Canada (Ontario-specific):

http://workgreen.ca/content/utility-wind

 

Germany’s (renewable) energy gamble:

http://www.nature.com/news/renewable-power-germany-s-energy-gamble-1.12755

 

Carbon efficacy of wind energy:

http://berc.berkeley.edu/new-study-of-carbon-efficacy-of-wind-energy-in-the-uk-has-implications-across-the-pond/

 

Impact of location on wind and solar power benefits:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=location-may-stymie-wind-and-solar-power-benefits

http://www.nature.com/news/location-may-stymie-wind-and-solar-power-benefits-1.13258

 

The necessity and impact of power plant cycling:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130924141656.htm

 

The cost of clean energy:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130917124817.htm

 

Wind farms and their death toll:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2013/09/29/forget-eagle-deaths-wind-turbines-kill-humans/

 

Wind turbines and their impact on residential property value:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130827135018.htm

 

Offshore windfarms and their environmental impact:

https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2013/09/29/harbour-porpoise-could-blow-giant-wind-farm-off-course/

 

The onslaught of wind farms in Scotland:

https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2013/09/29/nearly-half-of-scotland-in-sight-of-windfarms/

 

Controversial wind farm project (Minnesota):

http://www.nawindpower.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.12041

 

Small communities and renewable power generation:

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/05/no-easy-fix-for-broken-wind-turbine-at-us-high-school

 

A wealth of information on wind power generation and its societal and environmental impact can be found at:

https://www.wind-watch.org/news/

 

Storing versus 'wasting' renewable energy:

http://www.gizmag.com/storing-renewable-energy-solar-wind/29020/

 

Chalenges of alternative energies:

http://www.resilience.org/stories/2010-08-12/nine-challenges-alternative-energy