Cleaner Energy With Wind Power Electricity
Relevance Info Services, an international publisher of quality information asked me as a professional Environmental Scientist to reveal a number of matters on generating electricity. As energy prices tend to rise more and more in the future because of the growing demand for energy all over the world, alternative ways to generate electricity become more popular.
This article is about Cleaner Energy with Wind Power Electricity. More subject related articles will follow later on.
Electric power from wind is an example of clean energy. When generating electricity from wind, there are no harmful chemicals or gases emitted during the process. As a matter of fact, most environmentalists push for the implementation of more wind turbines to power communities and provide them with their basic need for electricity. Just imagine a world with clean sources of energy: it would be wind-powered, smokeless, odorless, and environmentally friendly.
To understand the basic operation of converting wind to electricity, one needs to understand the generator itself. A generator is an electrical machine that converts kinetic energy to electrical energy. There are a lot of articles on the internet that discuss in detail how they operate. As an electric generator, it needs a prime mover in order to operate and produce electricity. The prime mover is actually any mechanical force that rotates a certain part of the generator. There was a period in history when people manually rotated the generator for power production. This of course was very impractical. We need other sources of mechanical force to act as the prime mover of the generator. In the mid 1900s, engineers began to design generators with wind as their prime movers. Later in 1970s, the first practical wind powered generator was in operation, and so began the era of wind-powered electricity.
Wind power generation is most ideally located where there is a strong wind almost all the day, every day. The most common locations are beaches and coastal areas where there is a sea breeze during the daytime and land breeze during the night time. With enough wind power, electricity generation can go as high as several kilowatts to megawatts, enough to provide power to a small to medium sized community. Islands with wind generators located on the mainland can provide their own power. Submarine power cables are very impractical and dangerous at the same time. So by using wind energy, the island can still have electricity. Archipelagoes will benefit this kind of electric power generation.
There are many advantages that wind energy offers. It answers both the problems of decreasing sources of fossil fuels and the need for a clean energy sources. For years, it remained a minority in providing electric power to communities, but as technology and the demand for clean, renewable energy sources increase, we will likely find it used more and more.
How reliable is ‘bi’ pedal-powered electricity generator?
I was thinking of two places where I could save some $ when idle or sitting in chair by the computer desk and the other one being either a… pedal-like electricity generator or a… wheel-like generator with hand-grip for car battery charger without having another vehicle to power up the dead battery.
Sounds totally silly but just too curious to let it pass.
I figure having a standard BICYCLE power generator would take up a huge space so I thought of attaching a bi-pedal onto hardwood floor under my desk.
electricity generator?
how does those mini generators work? i mean those used during blackouts.
How can I make my electricity generator quieter? By using a motorbike exhaust pipe? Or…?
I live in Moscow and have a log cabin about 50 miles south. No communal electricity. My generator runs on petrol. Great, but noisy. I use it very sparingly so as not to disturb my neighbours. But it would be wonderful if I could run it all night, to keep the place warm.
From my home generator page…
http://members.rennlist.org/warren/generator.html
Portable generators are noisy. If you have neighbors nearby or the noise is unbearable in your house here are some ideas.
Choose an operating location as far away as possible. Note that a larger gauge wire is needed to reduce voltage drop as line length increases. Reducing line loss is required to minimize power loss and to ensure maximum power is available to the house. Lights will flicker less when heavy loads are attached.
Change the exhaust system. Noise from the portable generator systems comes primarily from two sources, the engine block and the exhaust system. With an air cooled engine there is little you can do about block noise. Some engines can have a larger muffler attached or make other changes to the exhaust system. Merely mounting exhaust pipe vertically will noticeably reduce noise.
Build a noise shielding enclosure. This could be as simple as a piece of plywood to reflect sound away from the house to a separate shed to hold the generator. Design your enclosure with safety in mind. Provide adequate air circulation and ventilation to prevent heat buildup and to remove carbon monoxide.
If the noise bothers your neighbors, invite them over for coffee or offer to run line to their home to power the freezer or a few lights. Talk to them before starting the engine, ask they let you know if the noise is bothersome before they phone the police or harbor any resentment. A little diplomacy can go a long way.
Last resort, shut off the engine or buy a quiet generator.
A gasoline or deisel engine turns a magnet which pushes electrons in wires, which makes electricity.
Some are associated with sensors and switching mechanisms that disconnect them when the power comes on again and turns them on/connects them when the power goes out (i.e., during a black out)
you would find that pedaling hard enough to properly light up a standard 100 watt bulb was more work than you’d like to do. Most folks just don’t realize how much energy is found in electricity, or gasoline.
how to build a static electricity generator?
I am trying to make a little device that generates static electricity. It does not have to be an intense amount of static. I want the device to be as compact as possible, say the size of a cell phone.
I have seen the Van De Graaff electrostatic generator but that is much too large and powerful for my purposed.
Any ideas???
Thanks
ps. Please don’t state the obvious and tell me to rub a balloon on my head.
A small van de graff would be easy and deliver a smaller charge or a leyden jar. Here are some links to my favorite site.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Make_an_Ultra_Simple_High_Voltage_Generator/
http://www.instructables.com/id/Be-a-Scientist%3a-Bottle-Electricity./
http://www.instructables.com/id/Leyden_jar_of_DOOM/
http://www.instructables.com/id/900000_volt_Van_de_Graaff_Generator_using_cheap_p/