Facts about wind energy

Renewable energy wind - Wind power

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Wind is the horizontal component of the flow of air masses caused by temperature difference or spatial distribution of pressure. Wind is the result of solar radiation, and its features in great part have influence local factors. Wind over some area may be caused by primary flow of air masses due to the global distribution of pressure (Year seasons) and travelling circulatory systems (cyclones and anti-cyclones). This caused various local winds with different features depending on the design of the soil surface (plains, mountains, valleys, villages, forests, etc.), its features (sand, stone, wet, water, snow etc) and properties of air masses involved in the flow. Winds do not have to be the result of synoptic activity but may be due to local thermal effects (Coastal circulation, circulation of the slope, etc). Basics of energy conversion in the wind turbine A conversion of kinetic wind energy into kinetic energy of rotation shaft is carried out using a rotor blade wind turbine or wind turbines. Therefore the rotor and electrical generator are located on a common shaft (more precisely, between them there is an appropriate carrier). The generator comes up conversion of kinetic energy back into the final rotation, electricity and the whole plant is often referred to as wind turbine. One or more turbines with corresponding equipment (generator, gearbox, chassis, columns, foundations, housing, control, substation, etc.) makes wind turbine. When it is called wind turbine it include facilities for producing electricity, while under name of a windmill is plant for obtaining mechanical work (for example, mills, pumps for water). Tags: renewable energy wind energy wind turbine wind turbines wind power wind farms