Wind turbines

We have known how we could benefit from the force of

the wind for more than 5000 years. This invisible force
helped the sailors get to their destination through rivers,
lakes and oceans; and it also milled grain for food
production by rotating the vanes of windmills.
The advantage of wind is that it blows from one exact
direction all the time, therefore with vanes –or sails, as they
are called– its force can be used easily. The modern version
of windmills, so-called wind turbine is a device that
converts kinetic energy into mechanical energy. There is a
large scale of these machines –from the height of 60m to
90m–, it depends on the area, which one mechanics lay out.
The generators, situated on the tall, slim towers of turbines,
are responsible for giving off electricity. It can perfectly
work from the velocity of 20km/h, up to 320km/h wind
speed. The average rotation by minute is 22, although it
depends on the circumstances. The invention of electricity
overshadowed this amazing force. Though, nowadays, the
utilization of wind energy is spearing.
Researchers say that by the end of the XXI. Century
wind turbines will produce one-tenth of the words
electricity-generation.

Biri Gergely 2013. január 9.