Wind Power Transmission

Not only transmission, but also conversion?
I have seen numbers from 7% to 60% depending on who is doing the math.
Why ask:
In West Texas they are putting up hundreds (if not thousands) of wind turbine only to send the power...

I went through the Energy Information Administration (eia.doe.gov) web site some time ago and found the 7% figure for total losses.  The figures vary widely depending on the route and the loading on the line, of course.

As for...

2009-03-18 08:30:58 by Kwanzaa Baby

A project of visual art + creative writing to document wind energy development in Texas.

So consider this:

In the US there are 106 Nuclear power stations which generate 100,000 Mw of electricity which is about 20% of total demand.

A wind turbine generates about 1.5 Mw per turbine. so to achieve 20% we...

There are always tradeoffs. Personally I have been to Alaska and have seen a few rivers that might provide lots of power and tidal flats that if utilzed correctly could provide enormous amounts of more dependable power. I suspect that there...

2009-04-23 14:00:49 by Dr.Science, JELL-O Doctor

When I went to drive my jeep today, I had a pretty big puddle of red/pink fuid in the snow underneath. It has been pretty cold here about -25 and about -32 with the wind, so it could be the power steering line, but dodge suposedly fixed it a...

The supply of both fluids is separate from each other. Check to see which supply needs topping up.
Look under the car to see the same color fluid clinging to hoses, pipes, frame, torsion bar, etc. the leak should be directly above...

2006-11-28 23:05:23 by jaime35

i have install wind turbine made by 43A, 14v car alternator 1200 feat far from my house, due to good wind speed. so give me the suggestion for wire size ,material, possible trouble, success percentage , and efficiency.

That's too low a voltage to transmit over that distance. If you are serious, what you would do is build a little outbuilding at the base of your tower, and put your batteries and inverter in there. Then you would transmit 120 VAC or preferably,...

2009-06-03 08:35:38 by KISHOR KC

Are you sitting around thinking wind power is part of our future? Maybe it's time to think again. GE, Siemens, Vestas et. al. have raped European taxpayers and are doing the same in the United States. You just don't hear about it.

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As much as we are kidding ourselves about solar power in the north. Such as the $700,000 total green house they built in the Detroit area but couldn't open because the solar panels didn't get enough sun. Well gee....it's not like Michigan...

2010-02-24 18:45:36 by coldfuse

Energy Baron T. Boone Pickens is scrapping plans for the world's largest wind farm in the Texas Panhandle. He's already ordered the wind turbins and is having problems storing them. He has a lease on 200,000 acres in Texas that was planned for...

The world is populated with old fossils who are used to using fossil fuels. They point out, quite rightly, that electricity generated by coal costs less than that generated by wind. What they don't point out is that the coal plants were expensive...

2009-07-08 08:50:53 by Linda R