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Wind Power Generation and Wind Turbine Design Wei Tong
Publisher: WIT Press / Computational Mechanics

In standard turbine design, wind energy is used to turn the unit's rotors, which then converts this type of power into electricity through powering machinery or sending it to generators. Readers could be excused if they felt a bit skeptical at the In other words, rather than using wind energy to spin magnets that pull charged particles along a wire -- which is what conventional generators do -- EWICON has the wind get those charged particles moving without any help from magnets. The electric generation cost of the so-called backup power plant is less than that of the wind turbines, and since near 100 percent backup is required, the wind turbines represent added cost, making the resultant electric power from the combination more expensive than it would have been without the wind turbines. Japan realizes this and, like China, is hard at work designing and building it. This is a losing proposition economically. The state-of-the-art facility has been specifically designed for full-scale testing of large nacelles. O2 tapped the well-established wind turbine company Nordex to provide the turbines. For decades, wind turbines were designed so that the propeller shaft was connected to a gearbox. As the June 17 deadline to the Instructables Green Design Contest fast approaches, Jaymi Heimbuch at TreeHugger has highlighted one particular entry: a small DIY wind power generator that can sit in your backyard. Wind power generation quietly hit a huge For as much as we hear about areas with massive untapped potential for wind power generation, as well as quite legitimate concerns about wind turbine design—global wind power development is moving ahead at a remarkable pace. Be the dominant energy on earth. Scale model of the EWICON bladeless wind power generator | Photo courtesy Mecanoo Design/UT Delft. Currently operating wind turbines can already—at European levels of production—provide carbon-free power for over 450 million homes world-wide. For the Maevaara wind farm project, Nordex will deploy its “Generation Delta” N117/3000 wind turbine, which it introduced earlier this year.