Wind Energy
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What is Wind Energy?
How to classify the different wind patterns. How to benefit of this resource of energy and how to harness wind power for homes.
Wind is the flow of gases on a large scale. On earth, it consists of the bulk movement of air. More on this by Wikipedia.
For us though, it consists of the bulk movement of air. They are commonly classified by their spatial scale, their speed, the type of forces that cause them, the regions in which they occur, and their effect.
To mention some; gust which is a sudden, brief increase in speed at least 16 knots and duration less than 20 seconds. Strong winds of intermediate duration (around one minute) are called squalls. Breeze, gale, storm, hurricane and typhoon are of long-duration and with different average strength.
A constant breeze from Noth-East
On the Caribbean island of Aruba where we live, we have a constant breeze coming in from the North-East with an average speed per year of 14mph. Indeed good as wind power for homes. Because of this constant one-sided wind power energy, our Divi-divi trees take the shape like on the picture above, growing in the wind direction. We are blessed with constant sun and wind on a daily basis.
Wind power is harnessed to drive wind power generators for the production of electricity or to drive windmills which is used in different ways to do mechanical work such as grinding of whole corn to make flour in agriculture and as lumber cutter. There may be other ways to transform the rotational movement of a windmill to produce other type of work. It all depends on one's imagination.
Wind power energy is a clean and renewable type of energy, but like solar- and geothermal energy there are moments of reduced capacity due to natural influences and we have to provide for those moments. The use of wind as one of our alternative energy sources does not produce pollution and thus contributes to our ecological environment.
Links to some Wind Energy Information sites:
American Wind Energy Association
The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) is a trade and advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C. AWEA represents the U.S. wind energy industry and individuals who support clean energy in the Legislative/Regulatory, Public Relations, and International arenas.
Energy Kids
Energy Kids (www.eia.gov/kids) is a student-friendly website hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration (EIA). The site includes a variety of information and activities about energy organized in several main categories: What is Energy?, Sources of Energy, Using & Saving Energy, History of Energy, Games and Activities, for Teachers, Related Links, Energy Calculators, and a Glossary.
Wind Power - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wikipedia.org is well known to all of us.
From here go to our page Wind Power Generators.
Your Wind Energy Story
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Remembering the great memories when building Your Wind Turbine? Share your story, tip or review about that fascinating experience of yours.
Your Wind Power Story
Click on the links below to see some great reviews about other Wind Power Projects. They were all written by other visitors to this page.
Franklin's Green Energy
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Photo: Wind turbine (note:You can click on a thumbnail to expand its view).
In the early stages of the era of Wind turbines I began experimenting …
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