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This is Scientific American 60-Second Earth. I'm David Biello. Your minute begins now.

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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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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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And if you take that into account, the best places change.

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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University totaled up the health and environmental benefits of renewable electricity across the U.S.

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Such benefits range from decreased respiratory disease thanks to less soot all the way to mitigation of climate change.

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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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The difference comes down to what the renewable power replaces.

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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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The analysis is in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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So where's the best place to put renewable power?

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According to this study, we need to be building wind farms in Indiana.

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They'll fit in nicely among the corn.

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Your minute is up, for Scientific American 60-Second Earth. I'm David Biello, Thanks for listening.

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