Introduction to Wind Energy
This is an interesting article from Monday’s Wall Street Journal It discusses the pros and cons of subsidies. I mean someone had to be on this blog making the case against subsidies. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444032404578008183300454400.html?KEYWORDS=renewable+energy
Wing 1 Drawing Figure 1: Power Curve Figure 2: Pitch vs. Amperage (8.3 mph) Figure 3: Pitch vs. Power (8.3 mph) Notes from group: The design for our blade was a triangle, in which the height of the triangle is 7 inches and the base width would change between 1 inch and 5 inches. We […]
Wind Turbine Data Analysis Wind Turbine Data Analysis By: Cameron Fowler, Donovan Dowers, Harris Gordon, Brendan Cook, and Julian Cortez Objective: Analyze the power generated from varying blade lengths as well as varying number of blades. Procedure: The blade design utilized in this experiment was a rectangular shape with width of 2in. and […]
Wind turbine blade design and testing project Brian Greco Nathaniel Michener Mike McNally Patrick Husted Daniel Kim Blade Geometries: The experiment used 3 rectangular blades with a constant width of 1.5 inches. From hub to tip, blades had span lengths of 5 inches, 7 inches, and 9 inches; the actual blade surface area […]