What is a Wind Farm?
Where is wind energy produced in your home state? What are the advantages and disadvantages of wind power? Where are the first offshore wind farms being proposed for development in the US? You will use a journal, either as a computer file saved to a disk on the computer or in notebook form, to record your answers and make notes of information and facts you might want to use later. Make sure everyone on your team can answer all of the questions before moving into your individual roles. US Dept. of Energy Good basic primers on wind energy and offshore potential Good basic primers on wind energy and offshore potential the website the website Wind Turbine Work What is wind energy? What arWind Turbine Work What is wind ene does a wind tur Danish Wind Energy Has a great deal of background information and how wind energy works. Go to Wind with Miller and take the crash course. Look at the Guided Tour and the environment section/tlandscape and turbines. Illustrated History of Wind Power Develo
A wind farm is a collection of windmills or turbines which are used to generate electrical power through their mechanical motions as they are pushed by the wind. Both Europe and the United States have large numbers of wind farms, and the technology is also found on other continents. In Asia, India especially has devoted a great deal of funding to establishing wind farms. The energy generated by a wind farm can be fed directly into the general energy grid after passing through transformers. As a potentially large source of renewable energy, wind farms are particularly popular in nations which are focusing on alternative energy. Other types of renewable energy include wave power and solar arrays. All of these technologies take advantage of already existing energy, converting it into a usable form. Since a wind farm does not actively deplete resources as it generates power, it is considered a form of “green” energy. Naturally, some resources must be expended to create a wind farm. The tur
The most economical application of wind electric turbines is in groups of large machines (660 kW and up), called “wind power plants” or “wind farms.” For example, a 30-MW wind farm near the community of Fenner, NY., consists of turbines sited far apart on farmland along windy ridges in Madison County. The wind farm generates electricity while agricultural use continues undisturbed. Wind farms can range in size from a few megawatts to hundreds of megawatts in capacity. Wind power plants are “modular,” which means they consist of small individual modules (the turbines) and can easily be made larger or smaller as needed. Turbines can be added as electricity demand grows. Today, a 50-MW wind farm can be completed in 18 months to two years. Most of that time is needed for measuring the wind and obtaining construction permits-the wind farm itself can be built in less than six months.
