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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Animation of how a wind turbine works

A Huge Commercial Wind Turbine Explodes