Alternative Energy: renewable energy - Renewable Energy: Wind Turbine Model

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

renewable energy - Renewable Energy: Wind Turbine Model

NMSU Professor Thomas Jenkins uses a small model of a wind turbine, to show how wind energy can be converted to mechanical energy and, in turn, to electrical energy. We can also see how wind speed and blade pitch can make the unit more efficient or less efficient in producing electricity.

In the News:

World's Largest Wind Turbine Test Facility Nears Completion
TPM
To add an extra sustainability kick to its renewable energy mission, the DriveTrain Testing Facility will require relatively little new infrastructure. It will reclaim a vacant 1940's-era Navy warehouse at Clemson University's Restoration Institute ...

Wind industry's future may hang on waning tax credit
The News Journal
Dietz Brothers Inc. tower man Jonathan Thompson secures the nose onto a Polaris Industries Inc. wind turbine installed by Renewable Energy SD in Elgin, Minn., on Feb. 15, 2012. The US wind and solar energy industries say they need an extension of ...

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The Wind-Mobile: Recharge an EV Battery With A Wind Turbine
CleanTechnica
There are a number of alternative energy sources for cars — whether that's fuel (like ethanol or some other sort of biofuel) or a fuel cell (yay hydrogen) or even a creative way of charging an EV battery (solar cars are fun!).

LLCC planning to erect two wind turbines
The State Journal-Register
In comparison, the turbines that make up the Rail Splitter Wind Farm in northern Logan and southern Tazewell counties each are about 400 feet tall. The project is funded by part of a $350000 renewable-energy grant that LLCC received from the US ...