Who would have thought that oil would become the most powerful impetus for the development of wind energy in the 20th century? More precisely, the oil embargo imposed by the five OPEC Arab member states and Iran against the countries that supported Israel in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Among them were the USA, Japan, Canada, and several other countries. The ensuing oil crisis forced the world to look at renewable energy sources, in particular wind energy, in a new way. Two years after the start of the oil crisis in the United States, the first wind farm was launched, which was able to provide electricity to 4,000 homes. 15 years later, in 1990, 46 wind farms were already operating in the United States. Today, more than one and a half thousand wind turbines power 38 million homes across America.


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