07x10 - Windy and the Windmills

[bunniefuu]

Hi there, everybody. I just blew in to

tell you burning all those fossil fuels

is falling up your air. It's that old

oil addiction. And according to

predictions, if you don't fix this

condition, Earth is headed. Who knows

where?But I've got one clean answer you

can find most anywhere. It's me, the

wind. You can feel it right now blowing

in your hair.

You can use me and reuse me and I won't

pollute your air. All I need's a

partner to help solve this mess you're

in. So meet my friend the windmill and

watch me take him for a spin. Now I've

been spinning windmills since ancient

history. Persians put us both to

work to 50 years BC.

Crusaders and the Romans saw the work

that we could do, and soon windmills were

sprouting up wherever strong winds blew.

When my friend the wind spins me round

and round and round, my turbines turn and

spin out power. They're

generating lots and lots of

megawatts to send down

through my tower. A

watt's a measurement of electrical

energy. It takes 40 watts to light this

bulb. 1000 watts is called a

kilowatt. The meter on your house counts

kilowatts by the hour. And the average

house uses from 6 to 9000

kilowatt hours a year. Now windmills hook

up to a grid to share their energy

along with lots of other plants that make

electricity. Most power plants within

the grid burn fossil fuels like coal.

They're making so much soot and smoke. We

got to set new goals. The winds of chains

are blowing and it's time that we got

going. You can use me and reuse me and

I won't pollute your air. I'm

reliable is that star we call the sun.

He heats me up and cools me down and

keeps me on the run.

Easterlies, westerlies, Chinooks and

Santa Anas. Off show is on

show is sometimes I go bananas. The

heat that once escaped to space is

trapped by greenhouse gases. CO2

and waste builds up and Earth gets no

free passes. One result of global

warming is warmer ocean water. So

hurricanes and other storms get bigger

than they ought to.

Keep everyone in every house to care to

save some lots. We cut all this

pollution down by lots and lots and lots.

Get all your friends to join you and make

sure they do their part.