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    Wind Power: Several Kinds Wind's Behavior

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    Wind turbines use wind to generate electricity by pushing a motor or generator. There are different types of turbines that have various advantages and disadvantages. Choosing the right turbine depends on accurately predicting wind patterns and speeds at a specific location. While larger turbines may have a higher maximum output, smaller turbines are sometimes better for locations with consistently lower wind speeds and may generate more total energy annually. Wind power production increases substantially with height, so turbines are most effective when placed on tall towers well above the ground. While wind turbines can generate some noise, small residential systems are usually quieter than common household appliances like air conditioners.

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    Wind turbines use wind to generate electricity by pushing a motor or generator. There are different types of turbines that have various advantages and disadvantages. Choosing the right turbine depends on accurately predicting wind patterns and speeds at a specific location. While larger turbines may have a higher maximum output, smaller turbines are sometimes better for locations with consistently lower wind speeds and may generate more total energy annually. Wind power production increases substantially with height, so turbines are most effective when placed on tall towers well above the ground. While wind turbines can generate some noise, small residential systems are usually quieter than common household appliances like air conditioners.

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    Wind turbines use wind to generate electricity by pushing a motor or generator. There are different types of turbines that have various advantages and disadvantages. Choosing the right turbine depends on accurately predicting wind patterns and speeds at a specific location. While larger turbines may have a higher maximum output, smaller turbines are sometimes better for locations with consistently lower wind speeds and may generate more total energy annually. Wind power production increases substantially with height, so turbines are most effective when placed on tall towers well above the ground. While wind turbines can generate some noise, small residential systems are usually quieter than common household appliances like air conditioners.

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    Wind turbines use wind to generate electricity by pushing a motor or generator. There are different types of turbines that have various advantages and disadvantages. Choosing the right turbine depends on accurately predicting wind patterns and speeds at a specific location. While larger turbines may have a higher maximum output, smaller turbines are sometimes better for locations with consistently lower wind speeds and may generate more total energy annually. Wind power production increases substantially with height, so turbines are most effective when placed on tall towers well above the ground. While wind turbines can generate some noise, small residential systems are usually quieter than common household appliances like air conditioners.

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    Wind Power

    Wind power uses wind to push a motor that generates electricity. Generators
    are usually called "wind turbines" but sometimes simply "windmills."
    Wind power may be useful for locations that have very strong winds and do
    not have enough sunlight for photovoltaics. Although large-scale wind
    power is usually less expensive than solar, small scale wind power is usually
    much more expensive than solar per kilowatt-hour of electricity generated.

    Wind power production at any given moment is measured in watts, but the important variable to
    measure is energy generation (kWh) per day or month or year. Because of wind's intermittency,
    turbines may generate very high wattages some of the time but low wattages or no wattage at
    other times.
    There are several kinds of turbines, each with their own advantages and disadvantages. The key
    to choosing good wind generators is to properly predict the winds behavior of a specific
    location.

    Different kinds of wind turbines


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    Predicting Wind Energy Production


    Wind turbines are generally listed by their peak wattage, and it is easy to make the mistake of
    assuming that a 5kW turbine will generate more than a 3kW turbine. However, larger turbines
    are sometimes too heavy to spin well at low wind speeds, so a location with low average wind
    speeds may find a smaller turbine actually generates more power.
    Any commercial wind turbine will have a specification sheet showing a graph of energy
    generation vs. average wind speed. This is what should be used to judge energy generation, not
    the maximum power rating.
    Below is a graph combining the specifications of two different commercial wind turbines. In this
    case, the larger capacity turbine only generates more energy annually if the site has very high
    winds. At more common annual average wind speeds, the smaller turbine shown here generates
    more than double the energy of the larger model.

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    Wind speed varies roughly by the square root of the change in of altitude, so the tops of
    buildings will experience faster wind than the ground level. This rate is important when
    determining the height for wind turbines. If you increase the tower height by 4x, you double the
    power (increase power by 100%). Not surprisingly, wind power generation is much more
    effective on tall towers than it is near ground level. This means that wind generators are most
    effective and economical when they are very large and very high in the air. Most wind maps
    measure winds at a height of 50 m (150 ft) or higher.

    Wind power increases with the square root in the change in height.

    Noise and Birds


    Wind turbines generate some noise, both because of aerodynamic drag and because of the
    vibrations of their own moving parts. For small household-scale units, the noise may be less
    than the home's air conditioner. Very large-scale units may be 100 dB or more.[1]
    Because of noise and vibration, large wind generators integrated with buildings should
    incorporate vibration-damping measures. This can raise engineering and construction
    costs. However, as noise falls as the square of distance, even very large turbines located 300 m
    (1,000 ft) away from people will cause no more noise than a household refrigerator.
    Safety for birds and bats may be a concern for large-scale turbines, though small systems cause
    fewer problems, and government statistics show that building windows kill 3,000 to 30,000 times
    as many birds per year as wind turbines. Savonius style turbines are inherently bird- and bat-safe
    because of their visual opacity and low rotation speeds.
    [1] From Wind Turbine Noise Issues, Renewable Energy Research Laboratory Center,
    University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2002.

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