Persuasive Speech Outline

Measuring and/or modeling the wind speed profile in UAE

Mentor – Olga-Potapova Crighton

2014-15 Final Thesis

Final Thesis

Acknowledgement

I would like to offer my sincere gratitude and appreciation to my mentor Ms.Olga Potapova Crighton for all the support and help through my final year for the completion of my honors project. Also, I would like to thank Mr.Mohamad- Al Musleh for his help in getting the required instruments on time for the completion of the project on time. I would like to thank my classmates, for their help and support through the year. Finally, my family, for the encouragement without which I wouldn’t have been able to complete the project.

Statement of Authorship

I, Kevin Franco Kanjirathingal

Hereby state that

Since the earth rotates, the wind goes in circular direction. This is called the Coriolis Effect. Named after Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, the french scientist who discovered these wind patterns. This is also the reason for tornados and cyclones. Wind also causes erosion of land and the sand particles, changing the landscape every now and then. Wind, hence is one of the most important phenomena on earth’s surface.

Wind Energy is the most rapidly growing form of energy and the industry is undergoing a great boom since the last decade. At the rate we’ve been using up our non-renewable natural resources, an alternate to generate electricity is turning out to be a must. With the increase in wind-related industries such as wind farming and wind energy, the root of all this lays at the wind speed detection of the place in which they are to be installed.

Denmark leads the way in the production of Wind Energy producing a whopping 13.8 TW-h annually which contributes to 39% of the total energy used by them. United States of America, one of the largest economies in the world is aiming at depending on wind energy for 20% of their annual consumption of electricity by the year 2030. The above mentioned statistics speak highly of the potential of wind and its