How do wind turbines work?

But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids

Vermont Public

Nature, Language, Kids & Family, Science

4.4 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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How do wind turbines work? How are wind turbines made? What will our energy picture look like in the future? We’re taking a deep dive into wind power, and trying to make the technology understandable, with Josh Castonguay of Vermont utility Green Mountain Power.

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0:00.0	It's fall and many kids are headed back to school and they're on the hunt for the perfect book to read.
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0:24.8	You can find out more at the Y Kids.org. slash books. You're going to be. This is but why? A podcast for Curious Kids from Vermont Public. I'm Jane Lindholm.
0:59.0	On this show, we take questions from Curious Kids Just like you and we find answers.
1:03.7	Today we're tackling a subject that combines technology and the natural world.
1:08.8	We're going to be talking about wind power.
1:11.6	This episode is a science episode, but the issue at the heart of
1:16.0	it is how we can preserve the natural world while also getting our modern needs met.
1:22.1	One of those ways is to use wind a renewable resource
1:26.8	to help generate the electricity that powers everything from our
1:30.4	refrigerators to our gaming consoles to increasingly our from our
1:34.4	cars, and other things that have relied on fossil fuels like coal power, not
1:40.1	renewable for generations.
1:42.4	When you're outside you can feel that not renewable for generations.
1:43.0	When you're outside, you can feel the air moving around you
1:46.2	in the form of wind.
1:47.6	Sometimes you can see wind bending the branches of trees
1:51.2	or blowing the laundry on your clothesline and you can hear it too.
1:56.8	You know we love sound on this show, but we're actually not going to play a lot of wind
2:00.8	noises in this episode because if there's one thing we have learned
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