Title: Offshore Wind Power Offshore wind power has become a need of the hour in renewable energy production due to the rising prices of oil and continually increasing demand for a separate energy sector. Offshore wind has the prospective to deliver at least four times the current U.S. demand of energy, as per mentioned by the Global Wind Energy Council. However, there are many challenges and advantages that are significant for us to comprehend. Most of the offshore wind turbines are constructed in waters about 100 feet deep having a monopole that has been implanted straight into the seabed. More multifaceted and costly tripod structures are required for the projects that are constructed further offshore so that a stable footing is permissible in deeper water. As electricity is yoked it passes through cables that are situated underneath the ocean floor until it reaches a substation onshore or on an offshore platform, and is then moved onto the electrical grid. Offshore wind projects provide various advantages along with providing giant development opportunity due to the natural topo...
The proposed wind farm will be built in an area known as Horseshoe Shoal, located five miles off the south shore of Cape Cod, in Nantucket Sound. Cape Wind Associates is the organization planning to build the wind farm. The farm will be visible in all areas that face the sound on Cape Cod, Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard. The wind farm will consist of 130 wind turbines, each turbine measuring 420 feet in height, each turbine about a quarter of a mile apart, covering a 24-square mile area. If built, it will be the largest wind farm in the world.
Every so often workers have to go up the tower and unwind the wire that is located in the generator at the top of the tower (Campbell). The reason they have to unwind the wire is so the wind turbine can turn into the wind to create energy. These wind turbines only rotate one way, they don’t rotate both ways, so after a while the wire turning the wind turbine tightens and the wind turbine is unable to turn anymore. So the workers have to go up to the generator of the wind turbine and unwind the wire manually (Campbell). Also, with all the wiring and gears up in the generator, workers have to go up the ladder which is found on the inside of a turbine, and check to make sure everything is alright (Gipe).
Some are more efficient than others, and some have more pros to them than cons. Wind power for example, generates electricity through huge spinning turbines. These huge turbines have blades that fit on the back of semis. Most wind turbines have three blades and sit atop a steel tubular tower. Their size ranges from about 80-foot-tall turbines that can power a single home, to utility-scale turbines that power hundreds of homes. Today’s wind turbines are like highly developed windmills.
It is well known that nowadays wind power is one of the fast developing energy sources of the world. Thats why one of the GE’s Energy business maintain a strong focus on building the wind power facility and delivering the technology in its fields and benefiting the advantages of wind power. GE has over 12,000 wind turbine operating in all around world with the countries like USA, Canada, China and Spain.
I personally do not like windy days. However, wind could be helping us more than we realize. We could be using the wind to produce energy. This is what wind turbines do and now I will be researching them to determine the physics involved with them and how they work, their history, along with some statistics from the United States. Then I will go in-depth for the wind turbines of Texas, Washington, and Kansas and compare them.
Wind turbines, by nature, must be sited in highly visible areas to give them enough space to produce the amount of energy desired. However, many of the sites for wind turbine farms are now located in areas that are ...
We strongly encourage the Government to invest substantially in research and development on low environmental impact renewable energy such as tidal streams technologies such as tidal fence, offshore wind energy, and wave energy. Doing so, the Government encourages the engineering community to develop designs which are more environmental benign. iii. Due to incomplete knowledge regarding the different technologies environmental impacts and the potential irreparable damages to biodiversity, we believe that a step-by step approach is more prudent regarding the clean energy production infrastructure
It isn’t enough to have a windy location; the wind farm needs access to existing transmission lines or the transmission line infrastructure has to be built to get the electricity to the regional grid. The grid is made up of a network of independently owned and operated power plants and transmission lines.
The most common way is to construct a steel drilling platform on the ocean floor. Other ways are, first a jack-up rig which is used in waters of up to 200 feet. The rig rests on a floating platform attached to steel legs that can be jacked up or down. It is moved by workers lowering the platform into the water and jacking up the legs off the ocean floor. Gener...
Urban area has been defined as a terrain with a population of 50,000 or a bunch of 2,500 to 50,000 people according to the US Census Bureau. Rural is later defined as anything external to that definition. Particular challenges are faced by rural areas when matter is of energy and water usage. For instance, utilities have to pay higher costs to modernize their energy groundwork and often find it stiffer to implement cleaner technologies because of the great distances between customers and crooked patchwork of reliable resources. Moreover, many system organizers and thought leaders for ground breaking energy know how live in suburban or urban areas and may discover it tougher to relate to the particular challenges of rural locations.
Offshore wind turbines have been a topic of discussion for a while now and people just simply can’t agree. There are the supporters and there are the problem makers as well as advantages and disadvantages to this idea.
The wind is an incredibly valuable renewable energy source and is in the forefront of renewable energy developments. It is used to convert wind energy into energy that can be harnessed and used via a variety of methods, including; wind turbines, windmills, sails and windpumps. For a renewable energy source, however, it is wind turbines that are used to generate electricity (see figure 1). Wind power has been used for this since the end of the nineteenth century, after Professor James Blyth of the Royal College of Science and Technology first attempted it (Boyle, 2012). However, It wasn’t until the 1980s that using wind power technology was sufficient enough to experience a rapid growth of the technology.
Wind is a form of solar energy. The term wind energy describes the process by which the wind is used to generate electricity or mechanical power. Wind turbines convert mechanical energy from the wind into electrical power. Wind turbines usually have three main parts. There are blades that connect to a central hub, a box behind the blades that contains the generator, and a long stem that connects to the ground. The way how it works is that the wind turns the blades, which spins a shaft that connects to a generator making electricity. After the electricity is produced it is sent through transmission lines to a substation that is sent to business and homes. For the sake of our planet, we must promote a renewable energy economy. Wind power can be a foundation of that sustainable energy future because it provides jobs in states that are building wind turbines, is a renewable energy source, and does not damage our environment. The environment will not be damaged by the pollution, the natural resources will not be used up, and there won’t be generating of hazardous wastes. Welcoming wind energy today will lay the foundation for a healthy tomorrow that will affect everyone in the United States. There are obstacles and challenges that will make it more difficult, but the environmental impact is well worth it to invest more money into wind energy.
Siemens is also involved with building facilities for offshore wind turbines on the east coast of England, since Britain is quickly expanding into wind power. Siemens is investing about $264 million in the production and installation facilities because of the promising prospects for the offshore energy market in Britain, supported by the government. The company again is headed in the right direction.
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