Essays on Wind Turbines

Sustainable energy building: It incorporates several natural factors for sustainability. The presented design will allow the building to harvest wind energy through an opening at the top and integrated wind turbines. The wind funnels will be used to produce energy from predominant air currents. The design of the building presents sustainability gains at its core (Kibert 25). Energy generation techniques: The design capitalizes on Indonesia’s extensive familiarity with geothermal energy, leverage the neighboring campus as a reserve for generating and conserving energy, and shaping the building itself to focus ambient wind into the wind turbines integrated into the ...

If you pay attention to too much of the mass media, you might think that renewable energy is a pipe dream proposed to solve a nonexistent problem. After all, the presumptive nominee for the Republican Party in the upcoming U.S. presidential election, Donald Trump, sat down with the editorial board of the Washington Post back in March and told them, “If you look, they had global cooling in the 1920s and now they have global warming, although now they don’t know if they have global warming” (Leber & Aldern 2016, web). Trump has even gone so far as to ...

Executive Project Summary – Malawi Wind Farm

Market Summary Malawi has an electricity production of 2,180 MWh and a consumption of 2,027 MWh. The 95% of the electricity generation comes from hydroelectric sources giving to the high country risks of supply shortages in adverse weather conditions when the water level of the hydroelectric plants is below the technical specifications of the turbines. The country has no other important source of energy having the country the necessity to develop new energy sources different to the hydroelectricity. The surroundings of the Malawi Lake develop winds over the 10 m/s average per year, opening the opportunity to ...

Internal analysis of Enbridge Inc.

Introduction Enbridge Inc. a distribution and transportation of energy company operating in the United States and Canada. The company is divided into five segments to facilitate its operations and achieve its long-term corporate objectives. The sections include Liquids Pipelines; Gas Distribution; Sponsored Investments and Corporate and Gas Pipelines, Processing and Energy Services (Finance.yahoo.com, 2016). The company operates a common carrier through the Liquids Pipelines segment by contrasting natural gas liquids, refined products, and crude oil pipelines as well as terminals. The Gas Distribution Segment is a natural gas utility serving industrial, commercial and residential customers in Quebec, New York, ...

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The competition in the market is growing and energy sector is not an exception. The saturation of the players is high and thus the intensity of competition is high. Windflow is a Company that has been serving its client since a long time; however the Company has not been able to set any competitive advantage in relation to the industry. In this scenario on the business level, there are two open options for the business. They are either to enter into a new market category or to create a unique strategy of positioning in the market. There are two ...

My personal values include a high-level environmental awareness and a desire to safeguard the environment for future generations. This will guide my research concerning the underappreciated impact of wind farms on bats and birds. The increasing awareness of environmental issues, especially in the energy field has led to the emergence of wind turbines as an environment-friendly source of energy. However, the wind farms have been recorded having an adverse effect on birds and bats in their region. As such, this paper argues that with greater awareness being raised regarding this issue facing wind turbines, a scientists and turbine companies ...

A Fossil fuel power station is a plant location where fossil fuels are burned producing electricity. Such fossil fuels include petroleum, natural gas, and coal. There are power plants which are designed for continuous operations for large scale purposes called central station fossil fuel power plants. Fossil fuel plants in many countries are used in the provision of electricity. They have machines for conversion of heat energy from combustion of fossil fuels into mechanical energy that operates an electrical generator producing electric currents (Camus et al. 154). The Samso Island is planning to exhaust the application of fossil fuels ...

Windmills have been widely used since thousands of years to pump water for agricultural purposes, propel ships and grind grains. As civilizations advanced, other convenient sources of energy replaced wind energy. Currently, fossil fuels that include coal, oil and natural gas fulfill the energy needs of nations across the world. These fuel sources are responsible for polluting the environment through the emission of hydrocarbons that cause global warming and various other environmental hazards. Also, these non-renewable energy sources are much limited and continue to deplete from the face of the earth. Therefore, wind energy that can be tapped conveniently ...

Since the industrial revolution – an era known for the peak of coal combustion to supply the energy requirements of mechanically evolving world – humankind has been relying on fossil fuels for the majority of energy. However, although the fossil fuel production is at the point of exhaustion, the world, in general, still is experiencing energy shortages, which is almost always associated with high energy prices (Pimentel 1). Furthermore, environmentalists advocate for cleaner energy source, such as the renewable energy sources, as an alternative to fossil fuel due to the fact that the fossil fuel itself, as well as the production ...

The Cape Wind project is US’s first offshore wind energy project, that will be located off the coast of Cape Cod, in Nantucket Sound of Massachusetts (Cape Wind). The wind farm consists of 130 wind turbines, each of 3.6-megawatt power generation capacity. The farm’s total capacity is 468 megawatts sufficient to meet 75% of Cape Cod and its nearby island’s power demands (Cape Wind). Each wind turbine will be mounted on transition pieces, and erected on deep dug, monopile foundations in the seabed (Cape Wind). Power generated from the wind turbines will be transmitted to a ...

Wave and Wind Power Generation

Wind Physics Basics Wind is atmospheric air which is in motion Energy Source The earth surface absorbs solar radiation differently. Some parts absorb more radiation than other. This creates pressure zones. As a result of pressure, air moves from high-pressure zones to low-pressure zones. This causes atmospheric air motion known as wind. Wind is a renewable source of energy. It is constantly available free of charge (Bhattacharyya, 2011).

Spatial scales

Atmospheric air motion can be categorized depending in terms of spatial scale. Four spatial scales identified include planetary scale, synoptic scale, mesoscale, and microscale. There are various types of spatial scales ...

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According to John Arend, Mike Benkert, Audrey deFilippis and Saretta Tillmaand, when the Commerzbank building opened its doors in 1997, the “53-story” edifice became the one of the “tallest” buildings located in Europe (1). Nevertheless, the edifice’s distinctiveness did not come from its height, but, rather, it came from the way in which it combined “form, inventiveness, and technical expertise” (Arend, Benkert, deFilippis, & Tillmaand 1). The design and construction of the Commerzbank saw the “[b]reaking away from the American model of deep-planned, air-conditioned structures” that have a “central service core” (Arend, Benkert, deFilippis, & ...

Suzlon Energy Inc.

Suzlon Energy Inc. is a global corporation that is the fifth largest wind energy company in the world. It was started in 1995 when a textile company in Surat bought two wind turbine generators to help reduce the amount of electricity used and ensure its steady supply when there is no power. This led to the beginning of the wind energy business in India. Over the years, Suzlon’s biggest customers began to make their operations global and thus required consistent sales and terms of service across countries. However, this was a great challenge to the General Manager of ...

Electricity still remains the most important energy source in the present world driven by information and communications. There are quite a number of energy sources but under two broad categories - renewable and non-renewable energy source. The non-renewable energy sources include coal, gas, crude oil etc. The renewable energy sources include solar energy, wind energy etc. Non-renewable energy sources are burnt and cannot be replenished but renewable sources are not diminished when they are used. One down side of non-renewable energy sources which have been widely used in the past centuries up till now is the air pollution they ...

Role of GIS in Promoting a More Sustainable Future in Energy: A case study of theStädteregion Aachen in Germany In the last decades, the world has experienced unprecedented population growth. Populations in the cities have doubled up with more than 74% of the country’s population live inside urban centres in developed countries. In developing countries, approximately 44% of the population are living in urban settings. With the influx of people in urban areas, there has been an increase in the consumption of energy. With increased use of fossil fuel, there has been constant pollution by gases like ...