Title
- Real Goods Solar Living Book
Attribution
Paul GipePublication Details
BookChelsea Green Pub. Co1999Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) TJ820 .G55 1999 DUE 01-27-10 New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Wind Energy Basics is an excellent introduction to wind power for educational programs concerned with state-of-the-art renewable energy options, and will be indispensable for those considering today’s generation of quiet, efficient, and reliable “micro” wind turbines. Wind Energy Basics describes a new class of small wind turbines, dubbed micro turbines, which are so small that they can be purchased for less than $1000 and carried in your hands. And the increasing popularity of micro wind turbines has opened up new applications previously considered off-limits to wind energy, such as charging electric fences and powering remote telephone call boxes, once the sole domain of solar cells. Wind Energy Basics explains how it is possible?in some states?for homeowners to run their kilowatt-hour meter backwards with a small wind turbine. These commercial wind turbines, including those found in California’s giant wind power plants, will produce 20 terawatt-hours (20,000 million kilowatt-hours) of wind-generated electricity annually?enough to meet the needs of more than three million energy-hungry Californians, or twice that number of more energy-conscious Europeans. Wind Energy Basics is richly illustrated with photographs of small wind turbines, from those on the Patagonian steppes at the tip of South America to those on the wind-swept shores of Denmark. The appendix to Wind Energy Basics includes detailed product specifications for most popular micro and mini wind turbines, as well as sources for wind pumps (farm windmills), used wind turbines, anemometers, inverters, trade associations, and mail-order catalogs that sell wind turbines. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
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Contents
- Fundamentals
- Estimating performance
- Wind turbine technology
- Off-the-grid applications
- Interconnected or utility intertie
- Siting and safety
- Buying small turbines
- Installing small turbines
ISBN
- 1890132071
- 1890132225
- 9781890132071
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