please help me, i'm going to write a thesis about hybrid wind turbine-diesel power generation, but the problem is i cant find a way to make a wind turbine with low cost, i'm still an undergrad student you see
can anyone share me an ebook or a website that shows how to build a simple and cheap one?
i really appreciate the help
thank you before

With sky rocketing oil prices and exponential increase in world population, the world is turning into greener and alternative sources of energy, more than you and I think or can even imagine. The thing is i want in, i want to start my own green power generation company especially in 3rd world war countries where power generation is epileptic and unstable. Any one doesn't matter, wind turbines, marine turbines or bio mass, doesn't really matter to me. Anyone with the same idea?...lets form a partnership, Cos am DEAD serious about this. or anyone can help me with where i can get funds or any thing at all that can lead me to getting one with time, no idea is too small or too big. The future might be filled with flying cars and anti gravity machines, but there's gonna be more wind/marine turbines than you and I could ever imagine.

The world lived at a slower pace back then, but the clipper=ship hull moved quickly, it carried less, so it's cargo was more in demand and time sensitive. The point is, we moved great weight, and used more hands on equipment. wind generation linked with solar requires more hands on, in as much that it requires constant and frequent maintenance and operational monitoring. Build wind generation plants that double as job opportunity, heck we could build fences around it and use prison inmate labor. Put them out in the wind-swept deserts, or offshore ships, platforms, and islands. How about a dynamo driven off a wound spring and speed governor, the old victrollers worked fine for years,and still work that played our old 78's Imagine a building sized one, all wound by hand, a real work-out that would all but eliminate obesity of our society. We used to grind cane the same way

Im doing this for school and its like an assignment, im suppose to find name of a scheme like nuclear generation power or wind farms but i dont know the names, help?

I see those wind turbines and the floating wave power towers for producing electricity.I was curious, is the Great Lakes good for producing wind and wave power generation like in the Oceans? Thanks!

It's proven technology to generate power for us that produces no carbon dioxide, sulfur emmisions, lead, mercury, etc. The new designs by GE and the french are very reliable and safe. People just remember chernobyl and 3 mile island. I am not saying we should not develop geothermal, solar, wind, and wave, but nuclear power generation is proven. Some people argue that getting rid of the waste is a problem but there are plenty of plans for storing it and the yucca mountain facility is going to be opening soon.

If your Utility company offered you “green power” at a premium, what percentage extra would you agree to pay on each bill? This money would support solar, wind, hydrogen, tidal and geothermal power generation.

Pickens' plan would divert natural gas usage from power generation to vehicle fuel, reducing reliance on oil.

Cars could run on natural gas. Yes. That makes sense.

Pickens' plan would increase wind power generation. Wind is an underutilized generating source. That makes sense.

But wind is a baseload power source and is not reliable enough to use for peak power.

Natural gas plants can be turned off and on more easily than other plants, and natural gas is expensive, thus it is used primarily for peak power - power generation during high-demand times, when you need a reliable source.

Thus, you can't replace gas with wind, even though they're both power generating sources, because they meet different market segments.

Yes we should build more wind capacity for baseload generation, but doing that won't enable us to divert natural gas from peak power generation to use as a vehicle fuel.

More wind power would enable us to increase exports of coal, which is great, though the green-types don't want to hear that.

But it doesn't solve the issue of dependence on foreign oil - other than a de facto coal-for-oil program.

Why don't more people see this?

Know-it-all, the cost to store wind-generated power would make it much more expensive, which kind of defeats the purpose - - at that rate why not just use nuclear?
Blackcat - wind can be use for power generation only if it is windy.

The U.S?

People worrying about the harmful environmental effects of these two power sources along with nuclear power generation, was the reason these types of energy sources were supressed in the first place.

Would Americans trade off the Carbon dioxide emitting fuels for radiation, dead birds, and dead fish?

I'm all for it. I'd love to see our dependence on foreign oil reduced. I'm just wondering if the global warming crowd is going to clash with the Peta crowd.
Please not that a dam made for hydroelectrice power would destroy most species of fish upstream of that dam. This would then have wider effects on the larger ecosystem

In other words, humans will be ok, bears not so much.
And with the slower windmills comes the noise pollution....
Not to mention the number of windmills that would be needed to produce as much power as we use right now would probably cover the U.S.

I live in an area where a power company uses wind generators successfully. I'd be looking at about a 1.8 kw generator in an area where electricity is expensive. Initial cost is K. Would I be better off waiting a couple of years for newer, better, cheaper wind generators?

We are about to embark on a long overdue program of building the next generation of nuclear and coal power plants as well as solar and wind power systems.

The problem this poses is the fact that we don't have enough of the next generation of skilled people in the trades that will be called upon to build and maintain this next layer of our infrastructure.

Conpetency in these skilled crafts isn't achieved overnight!

Has anyone ever heard of the cummins power generation training, I am a uti student and it is a 12 week course in az, I think it is designed for diesel gen-sets and transfer switches.
What is the pay range for diesel gen-set techs. How limited is that field, and can I apply and( of course get a job) in wind or other power gen fields with that training.

I was looking at a wind density map this evening. Am I safe to assume that the DOE #4 rating would be excellent for wind power generation?

http://www.flodesignwindturbine.org/turbine/

Obviously it is still just in testing stages. However, I am curious if this device could be incorporated in non conventional ways (ie. car and/or airplane), especially since it seems that a building in my home town is using a similar design in a skyscraper

http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/1486/66/

Thanks
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In regards to perpetual motion, it really wasnt what I was thinking at all. So let me ask this for your brains to chew on.

Why is it animals, particularly ones in the sea/lakes have bumps on their surfaces (fins, trunk). Ordinarily I would presume a smooth suface would be aerodynamic, but that is not the case (curse vortices and fluid dynamics). I can think of many cases where adding (disturbances) actually makes products more aerodynamic (golf balls, and that design for a boat that uses two hulls with nothing in the center for example)

On a final note, I am continually disappointed by immediate dismissal of both new and old subjects, its not scientific in the least either.

Discuss!

I would like to set up a wind turbine in my home and transport its output to the national grid. However, is there a large set up cost of transporting its output to the grid? And therefore would it been seen as viable for the small amount of power that it will produce?

while developing tidal turbines which wil be installed in the coastal areas for generation of electricity can we also join them rotor blades which wil be above water and develop electricity from fast moving streams of air? this will increase the outputof plant doubly!