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 * Additional Information: **
 * In the United States, it is estimated that wind could supply 20 percent of the nation’s electricity requirements. A goal is for the United States is to generate 5 percent of its electricity from wind power by the year 2020.
 * Wind power has decreased in price by 85 percent since 1980.
 * Many farmers are leasing their land: a farmer can be paid as much as $4,000 per wind turbine, and the farmer can continue to use the land for harvesting.
 * Wind is relatively safe because there is no risk for large catastrophes. There has only been one case where a person has been killed from a wind turbine: A skydiver fell into the rotating blades of a turbine.

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