Wind Power in Pacific Northwest

The first paragraph provides support for the main point that wind power is not reliable. By simply stating that wind power is not reliable the reader wouldn’t know that wind power cannot provide enough electricity when it is needed. For example, most people would not have made the connection that when there is no wind is the time when they need to cool their homes and that during a blizzard is when they need to heat their homes. Both of which require more energy than usual. Expanding the support in this way educates the reader and makes them aware of simple issues.
Paragraph two is centralized around the thesis of “there are major unsolved problems involved in the design of wind-generation facilities.” Leaving the thesis in this state without support really doesn’t say much at all. Almost everything has some faults yet can have plenty of good. As the paper is not intended for engineers the writer must enlighten us in some of the major faults. Supports such as, “ice storms causing damage to rotating blades” and “high winds in the area escalating the cost” show the reader that it really is not financially smart to place these facilities in the mountains where they are needed.
“The environmental impact of building thousands of wind towers would be enormous,” is probably the most obvious thesis. All the writer had to do was throw a bunch of numbers at the reader to show how many wind towers would be needed for efficiency. This paints a picture in the reader’s head of fields of wind towers which have destroyed acres of beautiful land.