FLYING WINDMILL

Do you know how to create a flying windmill ? What is a flying windmill ?

For this material required are :

 Lego Blocks
 Lego fan
 Lego fan connecter
Flying windmill, it is a windmill similar to a conventional one in its working principle
but here the rotor and generator will be floating in air just like a hot air balloon. The
generator will be enclosed in an inflatable structure and this structure is held by a
tether and tied to the ground. The energy in the wind turns two or three propeller-like
blades around a rotor. The rotor is connected to the main shaft, which spins a
generator to create electricity. It turns wind energy into electricity using the
aerodynamic force from the rotor blades, which work like an airplane wing or
helicopter rotor blade. This translation of aerodynamic force to rotation of a generator
creates electricity. Aerodynamics, from Greek ἀήρ aero (air) + δυναμική (dynamics), is
the study of motion of air.

Procedure :
First make the Lego blocks into a square like balloon .
Next put the Lego fan connecter in the middle of the square balloon .
Finally connect the Lego fan
If you do like I said you would get a perfect flying windmill model .

Result is that you get a model of flying windmill

– Who invented this great thing well it was Bryan Roberts the concept of generating
electric power from flying windmills originated with Prof. Bryan Roberts from the
University of Technology in Sydney? These devices were to be tethered to the
earth and fly at altitudes of between 15,000-feet and 30,000-ft where winds were
strong, consistent and reliable. Where are they used Northern Winds? In parts of
Alaska, Siberia and Northern Canada, the wind speed is estimated at
45-feet/second at over 3000-feet above ground. Remote communities in these
regions could use flying windmills to generate power during the winter months. It
can even conserve fossil fuels. Why do we need to conserve energy if it is
everywhere what will happen if you don’t save it? Well if you don’t save it First of
all, reducing energy use limits the number of carbon emissions in the
environment. ... In turn, conserving energy produces a higher quality of life.
 Reduced emissions result in cleaner air quality. In addition, it helps create a
healthier planet, or at least helps sustain the resources we already have. I
would love to use the flying windmill power when I am older because I can use
it for the electricity of the house but I will try making it safer so that it won’t
harm the birds. Well as you all know everything has a good side and bad side
let me tell you few good things Flying windmills use the wind to convert
the energy into electricity. Flying windmills bring with them many benefits,
such as reducing electric bills significantly and providing a clean fuel source,
according to environmental ezine. Here are few bad things Initial cost is high
Another disadvantage of floating windmills is that they have to be taken down
in extremely powerful winds, whereas common wind turbines are simply shut
down. After all these boring facts you may need something fun well here you
go are some funny fun facts:
– First windmill in America was created in 1888 by Charles Brush in Cleveland,
Ohio. Early windmills used fan shaped objects made from wood.
Modern windmills are using metal or other modern composite material. World's
largest wind turbine that is 20 stories high and has rotors that have length of
entire football field.

– Human civilizations have harnessed wind power for thousands of years. Early forms
of windmills used wind to crush grain or pump water. Now, modern wind turbines
use the wind to create electricity. Learn how a wind turbine works.

– 9. Today’s wind turbines are much more complicated machines than the traditional
prairie windmill. A wind turbine has as many as 8,000 different components.

– 8. Wind turbines are big. Wind turbine blades average over 190 feet long, and
turbine towers average 295 feet tall—about the height of the Statue of Liberty.

– 7. Higher wind speeds mean more electricity, and wind turbines are getting taller
to reach higher heights above ground level where it’s even windier. See the Energy
Department’s wind resource maps to find average wind speeds in your state or
hometown and learn more about opportunities for taller wind turbines in a report
from the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

– 6. Most of the components of wind turbines installed in the United States are
manufactured here. There are more than 500 wind-related manufacturing facilities
located across 43 states, and the U.S. wind industry currently employs more than
114,000 people.

– 5. Offshore wind represents a major opportunity to provide power to highly

populated coastal cities, and the nation’s first offshore wind farm was installed off
the coast of Rhode Island in 2016. See what the Energy Department is doing
to develop offshore wind in the United States.

– 4. With North Carolina’s first utility-scale wind farm coming online in early 2017,
there is now utility-scale wind power installed in 41 states. There is distributed
wind installed in all 50 states plus Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
– 3. The United States’ wind power capacity was 105.591 megawatts at the end of
2019, making it the largest renewable energy source in the United States. That’s
enough electricity to offset the consumption of 29.5 million average American
homes.

– 2. Wind energy is affordable. Wind prices for power contracts signed in the last few
years and levelized wind prices (the price the utility pays to buy power from a wind
farm) are 2–4 cents per kilowatt-hour. 

– 1. Wind energy provides more than 10% of total electricity generation in 14 states,
and more than 30% in Kansas, Iowa, and Oklahoma.