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Building wind turbine blades versus buying them for a homemade wind turbine

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:43:41 +0000

As you’re probably aware, one of the trickiest parts to building your own wind generator is building the blades. Most of the do it yourself (DIY) plans for building your own homemade wind turbine or wind generator give instructions for making a very basic set of blades from pvc pipe. It’s relatively easy to do, [...]

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Small Wind Systems – Answers to Common Questions about Residential Wind Turbines

admin — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:44:29 +0000

You may have heard the term small wind and never given it much thought. It’s a phrase that’s intended to designate a wind energy system for use in a residential or farm setting. It’s typically a smaller wind turbine that has a maximum power output that’s much less than the huge commercial wind turbines that [...]

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Animation of how a wind turbine works

admin — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:35:26 +0000

How does a wind turbine work? As you can see from the illustration, wind moves across the blades and causes lift, much like an airplane wing does. Since the blades are connected to an alternator/generator/gearbox arrangement, this lift cause the blades to rotate, and in turn spin the generator. The generator then converts this rotational [...]

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A Huge Commercial Wind Turbine Explodes

admin — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:41:41 +0000

This is what happens when the over-speed braking system fails on a very expensive commercial wind power generator. The video is that of a Vestas wind turbine in Denmark. Not sure of the exact model , but the news report stated that it was a 60 meter tower ( approximately 200 feet), so it was [...]

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Installed U.S. Wind Energy capacity hits the 20000 MW mark

admin — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:50:38 +0000

According to a recent press release by the American Wind Energy Association, the installed capacity of wind turbines has surpassed the 20000 megawatt mark! The amazing thing about this is that it took over 2 decades to hit the 10000 megawatt mark, and only 2 years to double that amount. Indeed an amazing feat. Currently, [...]

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