Wind Turbines
In the windy
valleys of the Tehachapi belt of Kern County in California are many wind
turbines or as I refer to them as “Whirly Birds”. These wind turbines are located in various
areas around the world and run on a “wide
range of vertical and horizontal axis types”. The littler turbines purpose is to control
battery charging for boats, caravans, and traffic warning signs. The median size turbines are used for
domestic power and in return sends any unused power to the utility provider
using the electrical network.
Assortments of the large turbines are “becoming an increasingly important source of renewable energy and are
used by many countries as part of a strategy to reduce their reliance on fossil
fuels”. These are identified as wind
farms.
“A wind turbine is a popular name for a
device that converts kinetic energy from the wind into electrical power.
Technically, there is no turbine used in the design, but the term appears to
have migrated from parallel hydroelectric technology (rotary propeller). The
correct description for this type of machine would be aerofoil-powered
generator.”
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