Wind turbines
Just over a year ago we launched People and Planet Positive, our sustainability strategy. Why have we called it People and Planet Positive? It’s because we want our business to have a positive impact...
You know we've seen this coming for a long time and yet I still don't think there's a proper appreciation of different this is going to feel. We anticipate there's...
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There now appears to be a way to kill a hurricane’s power by transferring its energy into electricity. According to his advanced climate-weather computer model, Stanford researcher Mark Jacobson...
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The Betz limit is the limit, 59% of the energy that we can capture from the wind. Now, if you allow the actuator disk to become a rotor disk that's spinning at some rotor speed omega, the side...
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VALERA ZAKHAROV: Hello, welcome to our Green At Google and Authors At Google Talk Series. My name is Valera Zakharov. And today, we have a pretty uncomfortably exciting talk for you today. We have...
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In the last class, we were, we finished with the understanding about how big wind turbines are for a specific amount of power output, the diameter of the wind turbine. Now the question is, the next...
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We said now in BEM theory, we're actually looking at individual blades. That is important. What's happening at an individual blade section or a strip that cut out of the blade? Wind is...
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Today onwards we will start the topic of wind energy. As you know, wind energy out of all the different possible energy sources, is the most exploitable form of renewable energy. As you know, there...
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RICH VANDER VEEN: The Gratiot County Wind Project was started in the fall of 2006. We brought our team here, and the first thing we did was begin to listen and ask a question. How could we create the...
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A wind turbine obviously has to be controlled. Why does it have to be controlled, because at some point of time it has to be started depending on the velocity of wind and then your objective would be...
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