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Wind Energy Explained: Theory, Design and Application

List Price: $100.00

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Wind energy’s bestselling textbook- fully revised.

This must-have flawed edition includes up-to-date data, diagrams, illustrations and thorough new concrete on:

• the fundamentals of wind turbine aerodynamics;
• wind turbine testing and modelling;
• wind turbine configuration standards;
• offshore wind energy;
• special purpose applications, such as energy storage and fuel creation.

Fifty additional homework problems and a new appendix on data processing neaten up this comprehensive edition perfect for engineering students.

This book offers a faultless examination of one of the most promising sources of renewable energy and is a great introduction to this cross-disciplinary meadow for practising engineers.

“provides a wealth of information and is an excellent reference work for people interested in the subject of wind energy.” (IEEE Power & Energy Magazine, November/December 2003)

“deserves a section in the library of every university and college where renewable energy is taught.” (The International Journal of Electrical Engineering Instruction, Vol.41, No.2 April 2004)

“a very comprehensive and well-organized treatment of the current status of wind power.” (Election, Vol. 40, No. 4, December 2002)

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Wind Energy Basics, Second Edition: A Guide to Home- and Community-Scale Wind-Energy Systems

List Price: $29.95

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The availability of altogether, renewable power is without question going to be the defining challenge and goal of the 21st century, and wind will edge the way.

Internationally acclaimed wind energy expert Paul Gipe is as soberly critical of history energy mistakes as he is convincingly optimistic about the future. The overwhelming challenge of transforming our midwife precisely from one of fossil carbon to one of clean power seems daunting at best--and paralyzingly starry-eyed at worst. Wind Energy Basics offers a solution.

Wind power can realistically not only replace the lion's portion of oil-, coal-, and naturalgas- fired electrical plants in the U.S., but also can add enough extra power space to allow for most of the cars in the nation to run on electricity. Gipe explains why such a startlingly straightforward unravelling is eminently doable and can be accomplished much sooner than previously thought--and will have the capacity to resuscitate close-fisted and regional economies.

Wind Energy Basics offers a how-to for home-based wind applications, with admonition on which wind turbines to choose and which to avoid. He guides wind-energy installers through considerations such as renewable investment strategies and gives cautionary tales of wind applications gone inapt. And for the activist, he suggests methods of prodding federal, state, and provincial governments to help energy independence.

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See how wind turbines make up clean electricity from the power of the wind. Highlighted are the various parts and mechanisms of a latest wind ...