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1 .This is Scientific American 60-Second Earth. I'm David Biello. Your minute begins now.
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2 .If you want to generate electricity from the sun or wind, it makes sense to go where it's sunniest and windiest.
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3 .But part of the reason to generate electricity from such renewable resources is to cut back on the pollution that comes from burning fossil fuels.
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4 .And if you take that into account, the best places change.
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5 .Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University totaled up the health and environmental benefits of renewable electricity across the U.S.
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6 .Such benefits range from decreased respiratory disease thanks to less soot all the way to mitigation of climate change.
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7 .And when you consider all those factors, a solar panel in New Jersey delivers more overall benefits than photovoltaics in far sunnier Arizona.
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8 .The difference comes down to what the renewable power replaces.
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9 .For example, a wind turbine in West Virginia that cuts down on coal burning avoids 33 times as much health and environmental damage as would the same wind turbine in California.
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10 .The analysis is in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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11 .So where's the best place to put renewable power?
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12 .According to this study, we need to be building wind farms in Indiana.
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13 .They'll fit in nicely among the corn.
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14 .Your minute is up, for Scientific American 60-Second Earth. I'm David Biello, Thanks for listening.
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