ONSHORE AND OFFSHORE WIND POWER COULD PROVIDE MORE THAN 13 TIMES THE WORLD'S CURRENT ENERGY CONSUMPTION.
Wind power currently accounts for less than 3% of global energy supply.
"WIND IS EITHER COMPETITIVE WITH OR LESS EXPENSIVE THAN COAL-GENERATED ELECTRICITY - AND IT HAS NO FUEL COSTS AND NO POLLUTION."
"Onshore wind farms have small footprints, typically using no more than 1 percent of the land they sit on, so grazing, farming, recreation, or conservation can happen simultaneously with power generation... [and] winds over sea are more consistent than those over land."
Area required to meet projected energy demand in 2030: 5,850,000 km2
“In a first for America, the ocean breeze is now generating clean renewable power offshore... Though the Block Island Wind Farm is small...it is the first successful offshore wind development in the United States, and it sets up the possibility for offshore wind projects elsewhere along the coast”
“...if wind farms were built in all of the suitable areas, including in the Great Lakes... they could provide up to twice as much electricity as the country now uses.”