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How Renewable Wind Energy Works
Author: Energy 4 Earth
There are many wind resources but the factors like how fast and how often it blows play a significant role in its power generation. Basically the power output as a cube of the wind speed. This means that if the wind speed doubles, the power output becomes eight times the original speed. Therefore areas where the wind speed is high are perfect for wind turbine installation. Now in case the wind speed is 7 m/s at a 10 meter height, it will be 8.5 m/s at 50 meters height. The wind speed increases at greater heights, so if you turbine tower higher, it will be able to capture more wind.
Wind energy is one of the fastest growing resources for producing electricity across the world. Despite this expansion, wind power is relatively a smaller source of electricity supply and is just about 1% to the total electricity generation in the world. This is because many people think that it is a costly project but on the contrary now-a-days generating electricity from wind power can be done by investing less than 0. This is possible because there is lots of information on making wind turbine on the Internet. However with so many manuals out there, it becomes difficult to choose the one that is appropriate and gives clear instructions. Homemade energy is good manual that gives elaborate instructions in a clear fashion. The reader doesn’t get muddled up and it is available at the cheap price of only.
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I may not understand your question. If you want to learn how to size/install about renewable energy, there is a college that teaches that: http://www.sanjuancollege.edu/pages/4003.asp
They turn out great students and are one of the top renewable energy colleges out there! (I know, we’ve hired folks who have graduated from there before)
If you don’t want to devote that much resource/time to it, there is alot of free learning, including free webinars at http://www.altestore.com. And there are also places that offer online and offline courses for $ like SEI http://www.solarenergy.org/ and MREA http://www.the-mrea.org/
I hope that helps!
-Nick
Kevlar would work well, as well as, would many different types of fiberglass. Both types of materials would be light weight, but the kevlar would be best for “bird-strikes” etc. The edges would be beaten hard any time an accident with a bird occurred. Kevlar is very tough and resilient.
I’m more inclined towards solar power as an effective means of energy. I believe our sun can provide all the energy needed for the entire planet. I mean, it’s there for very good reasons.
Wind turbines take the energy in moving air (wind) and converts it to electrical power with a generator. The force of the wind on the blades of the windmill (wind turbine) causes it to rotate with a force (like a toy pinwheel if you blow on it). This rotational force causes a generator to turn. Magnets in the generator causes an electrical current to flow. This electrical current is used to power things such as light bulbs.
Wind energy ultimately comes from sunlight. The weather is powered by the sun heating the ground and water which causes air to heat up and rise (or water to heat and evaporate). These moving currents of air and water vapor are the basis for all weather (and wind is of course part of the weather). You can use something very much like a wind turbine in the water to harness tidal power. Tidal power is caused by the gravitational drag from the Moon and Sun on large bodies of water such as the Oceans. Tides cause water to rise and fall. If you have an bay or inlet where water flows during a tidal change, you can put a water turbine to power a generator from the flow of the incoming or outgoing tide.
Solarhart has a distributor here.
Also Solar Electric Company (www.solarelectric.com.ph) or (63) 2-724-4812. solarelectric@pldtdsl.net –have their business card. Just copied the information.
solar and wind energy in the philippines?
we would like to buy solar panels and/or wind turbines for renewable energy, but so far all sellers i’ve found are from the u.s. does anyone know where in the philippines we could buy them? or maybe someplace nearer, like in southeast asia?
How do Wind Turbines convert wind into energy?
I am doing a project for school (its not for a class but its for a teacher me and my friends hang with at lunch) and it has to do with renewable energy. and I need to know how wind turbines convert wind into usable energy.
also if you can tell me how they convert the tides’ and suns’ natural energy into energy used for everyday appliances like lightbulbs and machines.
thanks in advance!
thanks for all the great answers!!!
I think this is the most amount of answers I have ever gotten when I’ve asked a question.
Would It Be Possible to use kevlar to make wind turbines for renewable energy?
I know Kevlar is very expensive and it may not be financially feasible but would it be possible to make wind turbines from kevlar?
If not what polymer would you suggest as an alternative to current materials used in wind turbines?
whats a good college course to learn about building solar panels, wind turbines and renewable energy?
i live in southern alberta and want to be in renewable energy.. any suggestions?
Wind Turbines > Great renewable energy source or just a way for landowners and local government to make money.?
I am all for renewable sustainable energy alternatives such as wind farms, light towers,solar fields and various tidal and thermal alternatives.
I have studied wind farms in my area and across the U.K
I have found that wind turbines generate very little electricity. In fact of all renewable energy sources these are the least energy efficient and the least cost effective.
Our Government here in the U.K. offer huge cash subsidies to land owners who install wind farms on their properties. The land owners also make a huge profit from selling the plots to prospective manufacturers of wind turbines who then build on these plots and sell the electricity back to the national grid. who then in turn sell it to you the people.
Lots of money is being made by land owners and manufacturers of turbines and also by energy suppliers.
We import huge amounts of food every year and yet here daily good farm land is being sold by its farmers in order to make money.
There are a million questions to answer and a million reasons why.
share your thoughts please………………………………………