Over eight in ten Europeans are optimistic about wind energy

A survey published by the European Commission at the end of last year on attitudes to technology shows Europeans are extremely positive about wind energy. People were asked whether particular technologies ‘will improve our way of life in the 20 years’, ‘will have no effect’, or ‘will make things worse’, The technologies covered included wind energy. 84% of the respondents said they were positive towards wind energy, with just 4% saying they were negative. Out of the eight technologies included in the results, only solar power got a fractionally more positive reaction, with 87% positive and, like wind, 4% negative. It is interesting to compare attitude to wind energy to nuclear, which got a divided reaction: 39% positive and 39% negative.

Read more: http://www.ewea.org/fileadmin/Wind_Watch/WW_Dec_2010.pdf