How does wind work as an energy?

Question

How does wind work as an energy?

Answer 1

Because wind has the 'potential' to do 'work'.

For centuries man has harnessed the wind to do work: windmills and sailing vessels.

Today in the 21st century the wind is being harnessed in very efficient wind farms.

Answer 2

Wind does not work as energy.  Moving masses of air (wind) store energy, like a battery.  At some point, that air was not moving.  Energy put into the system (sun's heat) made the air move.  The moving air (wind) is not energy, but it is storing energy.

Blades on a windmill stop/slow down the air, which releases the stored energy - on a windmill it happens to turn it into rotational energy.

A thrown baseball contains stored energy, but is not energy itself.  The baseball hitting a glove releases that energy (sound, heat)

Answer 3

The wind turns the windmill, the windmill generates electricity, the electricity powers appliances! Yeah you can probably tell that I don't know all of the in's and out's of it...

(To the first answer on this, I AM EXTREMELY INSULTED!! Look, bozo. If it weren't for women, you wouldn't exist. If it weren't for GOD you wouldn't exist either!!)

Answer 4

Not very good ,here in Texas when u need the power at night the wind quits blowing.

Answer 5

Not sure of the specifics but it's done kind of the same way water is used. How water wheels create energy, same with wind turbines. There is energy in everything on earth it's just a matter of us figuring out how to harrness it.

Answer 6

there are wind mills which will be rotated by the wind .this generates energy.