WIND POWER

Muhammad rizwan
05-mech-26

Origin of Wind Power

A Long, Long Time Ago . . .

Origin of Wind Power

Modern wind power derives, obviously,
from old windmills.

But the windmill in turn comes from the

water mill.
The basic concept is the same. One has the
movement of water as the source of power, while
the other uses the movement of the wind.

This . . .

www.oref.co.uk/index2.htm

Comes From This . . .

aerodyn.org/Annexes/ World/world.html

Which Comes From This . . .

www.thisfunsforyou.com/htdocs/ love/reminiscing.php

Origin of Wind Power

The classical windmill that we all think of
was invented in Europe.

www.southampton.liu.edu/ library/library.htm

Iran and Afghanistan, around the same time period in the

Middle Ages, were also inventing windmills of their own.

tims.geo.tudelft.nl/MillLinks/ Asia/Pakistan.htm

Origin of Wind Power

The European windmill is more properly
called a vertical windmill, for obvious reasons,
and is mounted on a horizontal axis.
The Central Asian windmill is more
properly called a horizontal windmill, with a
vertical axis.

Most wind power today is generated with

modern day versions of vertical windmills.
Horizontal windmills work best in areas, like
Central Asia, where the wind almost always blows
in the same direction.

How Wind Turbines Work

Maybe a Picture Will Help?

How Wind Turbines Work

http://www.eere.energy.gov/wind/feature.html

How Wind Turbines Work

The power in the wind is proportional to
the third power of the velocity.
To find total power in kilowatts per square
meter of cross section oriented perpendicular to
the winds direction, with the velocity given in
meters per second, we use the formula:

P / m2 6.1104 v3

Wind Power Today

From 1990 to 2000 the annual rate of
growth for wind power was 25%, the highest of
any energy source!
Average cost is about 4.5 cents per
kilowatt-hour. Depending on where you build of
course this can get below 4 cents per kilowatthour. This is the cheapest of any energy source.

North Dakota, Kansas, and Texas have

enough harnessable wind to meet the entire
nations electricity needs.

Wind Power Today

The Danish Threat

http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/dk.html

Wind Power Today

The Danish Threat
Sixty percent of all the turbines installed in
2000 were either manufactured by Danish
companies or licensed by them.
Denmark gets 15% of its electricity from
wind power.

Wind Power Tomorrow

The DoE has a goal of having 5% of
Americas electricity needs coming from Wind
Power by 2020.

Wind power capacity increased by 32% in

2001 in the world, 67% in the United States.

Wind Power Tomorrow

Today we get roughly 4,000 megawatts
from wind power. One megawatt is usually
enough to supply 350 homes.
A 3,000 megawatt wind farm is in the
early planning stages in South Dakota, named
Rolling Thunder. This farm would feed into the
Midwest power grid around Chicago.