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Is electricity used at night more likely to be renewable?
In Ireland, electricity is equally likely to be from renewable sources during the day as during the night
ENTSO-E, the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity, provides a ...
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How to use a band brake cable with my home built wind turbine?
A scheme used on many BMX bikes is a "detangler" disk on the fork. It's actually two disks, surrounding the fork shaft, arranged with flanges such that pulling up on the upper disk lifts the lower ...
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How can I determine whether roof top wind turbines would be beneficial in my area?
One approach is to look for studies in this area and decide whether the idea is even plausible. Is it "a bit more expensive but I like the technology" or is it "much more expensive and ...
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Are trees more productive than wind turbines?
Wind turbines do not turn the ground between them into desert. There is still farming and growth of various plants (even trees) possible. It should not be excluded in those comparisons and ...
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What is the wind wake effect and why is important for wind turbines?
The second slide of the presentation linked by you actually shows the issue with wake very clearly. You could also talk about turbulences instead of wake (my company actually does). Wake is simply the ...
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Is wind power practically dead?
TL;DR: Wind is not dead, but a diverse set of economic, technical, and political factors have resulted in a leveling off of the rate of new construction.
The cost to build new wind declined for years ...
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Wind farms using advanced technology (radar, AI, tracking) to shut down wind farm turbines when risks are highest for migratory and endangered birds?
The Netherlands
I am aware of 1 such wind farm in my country named 'Windpark Krammer'. This farm is located near 3 protected nature areas. According to their webpage that lists a few media articles (...
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Are trees more productive than wind turbines?
A tree farm of that size in a temperate climate would only produce ~1.7GWh/y (net). You are overestimating the productive value of trees by a factor of ~15.
A 5MW wind turbine can produce a maximum ...
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How much land needed to dispose of blades from wind turbines?
This wont answer your question, but will attempt to show, why the question is based on wrong assumptions.
That headline you're concerned about is missing a "yet". True, currently recycling ...
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With current technology, how much CO2 is emitted when making renewable power plants?
Since raw materials scale according to size, every different panel/turbine will have a different answer. Different generators also have different maintenance costs, and lifespans. It's probably more ...
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Is wind power practically dead?
In 2018, global wind capacity increased from 515 GW to 564 GW - a 9.5% increase.
20 GW of that 49 GW increase was in China, 11 GW in Europe, 3 GW South America, 8 GW North America.
A 9.5% year-on-...
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Can data from wind and solar farms be used to improve climate modeling?
Wind turbines and solar panels are not precision measurement instruments. They are instruments to create electricity. So, the answer in general is no, but there may be some validity in the idea for at ...
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Why does wind just track the economy
It doesn't.
Assuming you're referring to wind capacity additions, it most closely tracks the political winds in the U.S., in the form of the Production Tax Credit (PTC), a federal incentive program ...
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How to attach more sources of energy to your charge controller
If you have a single-string MPPT charge controller, then you should not even think of trying to combine your two generators (i.e. PV array and wind turbine) onto a single input and feeding that in.
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What is the scrap value of wind renewables?
Executive summary
It's too early to tell what the resale value is, as contemporary turbine designs are not as old as the lifetime of a wind-turbine, so we have very little experience of the economic ...
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How to log wind statistics data
Firstly, if it's rooftop wind you're asking about, then that's easy: it's not worth it - the air's too turbulent.
But if it's a pole-mounted turbine that you're considering, then talk to a supplier ...
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How many square kilometres of offshore wind farms would be required to replace the closing of a 4GW nuclear power station
Your figures are a bit out, but broadly in the right area. Using observed figures for the numbers you've estimated, I get 1,246 km²
90% capacity factor for nuclear is probably optimistic, but some ...
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How many square kilometres of offshore wind farms would be required to replace the closing of a 4GW nuclear power station
Current high-end windturbines (WT) produce about 4.5 MW while being about 240 m high (top of rotor tip) and with a rotor diameter of 150 m.
When it comes to the distance between the WT, rule of thumb ...
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Apply solar energy solutions at our apartment?
I'm not an expert on the topic but I have been doing similar research for the past several months as I'm planning to build an off-grid home and, obviously, renewable energy is critical for me. As ...
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Is it possible to harvest energy from the storm?
Your idea is interesting but would fail in the real world for a number of reasons:
The energy embodied in even a moderate storm is staggering. No amount of "Stormbuoys" could make even a dent on a ...
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Is there a simple on-line tool for estimating wind turbine power output?
https://www.renewables.ninja/ will give you a crude estimate. But it's not very useful - it will often be very wrong for onshore wind.
In general, for any onshore wind, or any offshore wind close to ...
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How are readings from the wind sensors mounted on wind turbines influenced by the blades' wakes?
I have some knowledge in this field, coming from several years' experience in drafting and defending patent applications that deal with wind turbines in one form or other.
If you're talking about a ...
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What does the P90 of a wind resource mean?
From the Wind Measurement International site:
P90 is all about quantifying the uncertainty of annual energy yield predictions. P90 is the energy WMI predicts that a wind turbine is 90% likely to ...
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When does wind make more sense than solar for a home application?
Generally, solar is more reliable than wind. Ignoring arctic and antarctic latitudes most places get some sunlight during the day, even on overcast days. However, the same cannot be said for wind. ...
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Is there a recent study that shows how accurate wind turbine wake models are?
February 2018 comparison of two kinematic wake models and two actuator disc models
Simisiroglou, Polatidis, and Ivanell compared these four models to data from Lillgrund offshore wind farm in Sweden ...
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How to log wind statistics data
The first link in that search gives you a cup anemometer that puts out a standard 4-20mA signal that can be logged by a standard industrial data logger, meaning you can buy whatever duration you want. ...
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How can people afford to be self-sufficient and sustainable?
This is a huge question, with huge implications.
In rural Colombia, where we are working, if a project is not productive, very few will implement it, and those that do will think you tricked them. ...
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Are trees more productive than wind turbines?
The question assumes a false dichotomy: Trees or turbines. The actual turbine footprint is small, leaving most of the land available for other purposes.
250,000 m2 is roughly 500m x 500m A 100m ...
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What is a good database containing wind speed and direction?
There are lots of possible data sources. It will depend on the years you want, the geographic area you want, and the spatial and temporal resolution you want.
This is quite a large, well-established ...
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How to use a band brake cable with my home built wind turbine?
Another option might be to leave the actuation cable dangling downward from a small hole in the housing. You'll probably have a regular old bike brake lever on a short length of wooden dowel as a ...
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