Wind energy use
The reading and the lecture discuss the pros and cons of using wind power as an alternative source of energy to conventional ones. The author of the passage believes that wind is an available, cheap, and clean energy. However, the lecturer states some problems with wind energy that cast doubt on the premises of the passage.
First of all, the lecturer explains that wind is not a reliable source of energy; Because it varies, regarding its strength, from a mild breeze to a wild tornado. Moreover, wind does not blow continuously in a single area. Therefore, in order to exploit its energy, there must be a considerable number of power plants on variouslocations. This rejects the claim that wind power is very accessible and abundant.
Second, despite the technological advancements, the cost of constructing a wind power plant is high and could exceed that of a fossil fuel, especially in initial phases. Furthermore, the price of buying a proper piece of land may add a large figure to the overall expenses. Unfortunately, such ideal locations are sometimes far from the consumer endpoints, which makes the transmission of energy very costly. This refutes the claim that wind is the cheapest source of energy among the all possible alternatives.
Finally, wind farms are major sources of noise pollution. Although they do not emit greenhouse gases, they are still not completely environment-friendly. In addition, migrating birds are attracted to the areas where wind power plants are built. They habitually have a tendency to fly through high speed wind tunnels. Hence, they are hit by blades of the generators. In a single wind farm about 200 migrating birds were reported to be killed. This undermines the claim that wind energy has no harm to the environment.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, furthermore, hence, however, may, moreover, regarding, second, so, still, therefore, in addition, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 22.412803532 76% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 30.3222958057 129% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1488.0 1373.03311258 108% => OK
No of words: 292.0 270.72406181 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09589041096 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13376432452 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98473787147 2.5805825403 116% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 145.348785872 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.58904109589 0.540411800872 109% => OK
syllable_count: 459.9 419.366225166 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 33.6119834598 49.2860985944 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 82.6666666667 110.228320801 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.2222222222 21.698381199 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 7.06452816374 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.403200325755 0.272083759551 148% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.115595903281 0.0996497079465 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.093682080547 0.0662205650399 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.235835099953 0.162205337803 145% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0951181831279 0.0443174109184 215% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.7 13.3589403974 80% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.0 12.2367328918 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.76 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 63.6247240618 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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