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Carland Cross – Wind farm

Carland Cross wind farm is north of the A30 with road access from the roundabout. It is one of the oldest windfarms in the UK, and was built in 1992. It has 15 turbines manufactured by Vestas with a capacity of 6MW. Plans by the operator, Scottish Power, to upgrade and expand the wind farm [...]

Huxley Hill Wind Farm – Introduction

Huxley Hill Wind Farm (also known as the King Island Wind Farm) is a wind power station at King Island, Tasmania, Australia, owned by Hydro Tasmania. The farm started generating in 1998 and has since been expanded twice, initially with three 250 kW Nordex N26 wind turbines, then in 2003 with two 850 kW Vestas [...]

Climate change mitigation – Methods and means

] At the core of most proposals is the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions through reducing energy waste and switching to cleaner energy sources. Frequently discussed energy conservation methods include increasing the fuel efficiency of vehicles (often through hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and electric cars and improving conventional automobiles), individual-lifestyle changes and changing business practices. Newly [...]

IEC 61400-25 – Introduction

IEC 61400-25 (Communications for monitoring and control of wind power plants, TC 88) provides uniform information exchange for monitoring and control of wind power plants. This addresses the issue of proprietary communication systems utilizing a wide variety of protocols, labels, semantics, etc., thus enabling one to exchange information with different wind power plants independently of [...]

Yaw system – History

The task of orientating the rotor into the wind was a complicated issue already for historical windmills. The first windmills able to rotate in order to “face” the wind appeared in the mid-1700s. Their rotatable nacelles were mounted on the main structure of the windmill using primitive wooden gliding bearings lubricated with animal fat. The [...]

Index of sustainability articles – W

Waste management – Waste vegetable oil – Waste water treatment – Water conservation – Water crisis – Water purification – Wave farm – White flight – Wind power – Wind power in the United Kingdom – Wind turbine – World energy consumption – World largest cities Adapted from the Wikipedia article Index of sustainability articles, [...]

Vaneless ion wind generator – Introduction

vaneless ion wind generator or power fence is a proposed wind power device that produces electrical energy directly by using the wind to pump electric charge from one electrode to another, with no moving parts. Wind energy is usually extracted to make electricity by means of a wind turbine. The bird deaths, vibrational noise, and [...]

Housetrucker – History

The idea of the nomadic styled mobile home was spawned from the international 1960s and 1970s counterculture movements, New Zealand with its unique Kiwi experience was fashioned from the early American and British hippie crusades and the then alternative music revolution. In the 1960s and 1970s hippie culture spread worldwide through a fusion of rock [...]

Floating wind turbine – Introduction

floating wind turbine is an offshore wind turbine mounted on a floating structure that allows the turbine to generate electricity in water depths where bottom-mounted towers are not feasible. The wind can be stronger and steadier over water due to the absence of topographic features that may disrupt wind flow. The electricity generated is sent [...]

Dobrogea Wind Farm – EDP

The EDP Wind Farm will consist of 113 individual wind turbines each with a nameplate capacity of around 2 MW. Collective output will be up to 226 MW of power, enough to power over 148,030 homes, with a capital investment required of approximately US$ 300 million. Adapted from the Wikipedia article Dobrogea Wind Farm, under [...]

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