Wind Power Concepts That Need To Be Reviewed

By Farid Shahid
1) Windmill sail communication based on the position of the rotor blades
2) Wind power Statistics: Which places have more/less wind generation
capacity
3) Wind Power History: Specifically dates
4) Mathematics
a) How to calculate power using heat value of coal.
b) How to calculate heat value of coal using power.
c) How to calculate the amount of time that something like a solar panel
will take to pay for itself when compared to the conventional method of
power generation
5) Tip Speed Ratio (for optimum power output)
6) Energy Storage types and their prevalence in America and the rest of the
world
a) Redox Flow Batteries
b) Flywheels: Calculating energy stored in flywheels using RPM and Inertia
c) Capacitors
d) Pump Storage
7) Stages the supply of electricity
a) Generation, Transmission, Distribution
8) Power Factor: Ratio of Real Power that is used to do work to Reactive
Power (the power that is supplied to the circuit).
9) Peak Shaving: Reducing the maximum demand for electricity, Energy
Vampires (Phantom Loads): When devices use electricity when turned off
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that they can turn on faster or due to poor efficiency).

Other words relating the topics discussed in 9)
Different specialty turbines
Parris-Dunn Turbine: controlled its rotor speed by titlting
Darrieus (VAWT)
Savonius
Twisted Savonius
Gyromill (variation of Savonius)
American Multi-Blade
Post Mill
Diagramming Utility Poles

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Lightening Arrestor: a device used on electrical power systems and

telecommunications systems to protect the insulation and conductors of

the system from the damaging effects of lightning.

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History: What century did windmills transform Holland into an area

more fit for human habitation and adding habitable area?

a) 17th century
14) It is important to learn dates of historic events regarding Wind Power
15) Types of Power Losses
a) Core Losses
16) Lead Acid Batteries
a) Electrolyte: Sulfuric Acid
17) Abbreviations
a) SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition)
b) RMS (Root Mean Square)
c) Etc
18) Types of Connections (such as the ones depicted in the image below).
There was a question about this in the Blue Dragon Test.

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