LINCOLN — That “swoosh” sound that windmills make as the big blades pass by their towers is a sweet chord to Richard Plinsky. “It sounds like ‘cha-ching, cha-ching,’ kinda like a cash register,” he said. His farm and ranch is situated among the 155 massive turbines in the Smoky Hills Wind Farm in Lincoln and [...]
The electric wind turbines built 30 years ago, after the 1970s oil-price shocks increased interest in the industry, often experienced serious problems. Some came apart in bad storms, some did not work well, even in good weather, and still others found insects piling up on the blades, slowing power production. Bird deaths at some early [...]
A Minnesota wind farm aims to boost the reliability of its energy supply with the addition of a 1-megawatt advanced energy storage system. Juhl Wind plans to install the system from Zinc Air at its recently acquired Woodstock Hills wind farm located near the company’s headquarters in Woodstock, Minnesota. According to Montana-based Zinc Air, its [...]
People have been using wind power from the time immemorial. Originally they learnt to transform kinetic energy of wind stream into mechanical one. There appeared lots of different wind mills making men’s life much easier in those times. An idea of a wind turbine for electric power generation using wind power started up around 100 [...]
Although wind power energy production in 2010 was estimated to be only about 2.5 percent of worldwide electricity usage, wind turbines are considered a mature technology with many experts suggesting that we’re approaching the theoretical limit of individual wind turbine efficiency. For this reason, researchers are now looking at new approaches to wind farm design [...]
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