Wind Power

[ad] World Wind Maps - Wind Atlases of the World. This article provides you with essential links to world wide wind maps. The maps contain data on the wind speed and wind direction in a region. Typically, a climatological wind atlas covers hourly averages at a standard height (10 meter) over even longer periods (30 years). You can make use of a wind atlas when you are looking into pre-selecting wind farm sites. The wind atlas methodology and has been applied in more than 100 countries and territories around the ... Read More

[ad] GALWAY, IRELAND - 15th September 2009 - The world's first full-scale floating wind turbine, StatoilHydro's 'Hywind,' took to the high seas last week for a two-year trial that will lead to wind turbines that can be deployed in much deeper waters than currently possible. Is the future of wind power floating off the Norwegian coast? Floating wind towers may someday allow turbines to be installed far offshore out of view from land, outside shipping lanes and where ocean winds are strongest. The primary intention ... Read More

[ad] Ocean wave energy is captured directly from surface waves or from pressure fluctuations below the surface. Waves are caused by the wind blowing over the surface of the ocean. In many areas of the world, the wind blows with enough consistency and force to provide continuous waves. There is tremendous energy in the ocean waves. Wave power devices extract energy directly from the surface motion of ocean waves or from pressure fluctuations below the surface.  Wave power varies considerably in different parts of ... Read More

This part 1 of our comprehensive 'Scientific Series' covers all aspects of 'Energy Storage' which is required in the process of harnessing energy generated from Wind Power and Solar Power. [ad] ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM Electricity is more versatile in use because it is a highly ordered form of energy that can be converted efficiently into other forms. For example, it can be converted into mechanical form with efficiency near 100 percent or into heat with 100 percent efficiency. The heat energy, on the other hand, cannot be converted into ... Read More

[ad] The total worldwide annual primary energy consumption in 2008 was 435 quadrillion BTUs and over 110 quadrillion BTUs in the United States of America. Approximately 40 percent of the total primary energy is used in generating electricity. Of that, nearly 70 percent of the energy used in private homes and offices is in the form of electricity. 850 GW of electrical generating capacity is now installed in the U.S.A. to meet this demand. For most of this century, America’s electric demand has increased ... Read More