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

But for anyone who says that wind energy can't match form to function, feast your eyes on the Enessere Hercules wind generator, which was designed by Terry Glenn Phipps. In this design, the turbine's generator is directly coupled to the power grid, causing the generator speed to lock to the power line frequency and fix the rotational speed. Forcing coal and gas-fired power plants to ramp up and down more frequently to compensate for the growing number of wind farms connected to the power according to a recent study funded by the U.S. @Accounting Guy While it's a good thing to see people constantly studying potentially better ways of utilizing existing technologies, we must also understand that there are very practical reasons that commercial wind turbines use the design that they currently do. The turbine components responsible for these . This mechanical energy is then converted into electricity that is sent to a power grid. A wind turbine is a revolving machine that converts the kinetic energy from the wind into mechanical energy. Presently wind turbines use a mechanical transmission to smooth out the speed at which energy is delivered to an internal generator. Vertical-axis wind turbines aren't as efficient as conventional ones—half of the time the blades are actually moving against the wind, rather than generating the lift needed spin a generator. Plants originally designed to provide baseload will in future have to operate on a load-following or cycling basis, ramping up and down at short notice. That technology would seem to pair well with a new gearbox design from ExRo that allows turbines to much more efficiently turn fluctuating air currents into stable electricity. We've already covered Catch the Wind's laser-based system for creating 3-D maps of wind direction and speed.