Wind Turbines are rotating machines that can be used directly for grinding or can be used to generate electricity from the kinetic power of the wind. They provide the clean and renewable energy for us of both home and office. Wind Turbines are a great way to save money and make the enviro...
What is a wind turbine? Wind turbines are the modern version of a windmill. Put simply, they use the power of the wind to create electricity. Large wind turbines are the most visible, but you can also buy a small wind turbine for individual use; for example to provide power to a carav...
How does floating offshore wind energy work To find out how floating offshore wind energy works, we must first answer the following question: Why do wind turbines float in the sea as structures 120 metres high and weighing thousands of tons? The solution was given by Archimedes 2,300 years...
Wind power is a another rapidly growing renewable way to get electricity.Wind turbinesare used to capture thekinetic energy of windand convert it into electrical power. South Africa’s coastal regions, with their consistent winds, are ideal for wind farms. The electricity generated by wind turbine...
Utilities managers use wind tunnels to test wind turbines used to generate electricity. Wind tunnels help make the turbines and their blades more efficient, effective and durable, so they can withstand constant, powerful gusts. But wind tunnels also help engineers determine wind farm layouts and ...
Globally, at least 50,000 wind turbines are producing a total of 50 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) annually. In the next section, we'll examine the availability of wind resources and how much electricity wind turbines can actually produce. ...
Today, nearly 20 years later, those strokes of genius have been transformed into a technology that is virtually synonymous with floating wind turbines: Hywind. We went sailing with the inventors behind Hywind to discover how they came up with the concept — a design that is at the heart of ...
Wind turbines generate electrical power from the wind and functions in the reverse manner as a fan does. Micro hydroelectricity is another source of energy, which fascinatingly “uses a source of running water, like a stream, to generate electricity” (Dunn 3). Between all three sources of ...
A single large power plant can generate enough electricity (about 2 gigawatts, 2,000 megawatts, or 2,000,000,000 watts) to supply a couple of hundred thousand homes, and that's the same amount of power you could make with about 1000 large wind turbines working flat out....
We don’t dwell on the irony of strong winds affecting the building of a wind farm, but turn instead to the turbines themselves. It’ll be the first time that the giant 13 MW GE Haliade-X turbines are energised offshore. Story continues below Dogger Bank is a large sandbank located in...