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:: Wind Energy Basics Revised: A Guide to Home- and Community-scale Wind Energy Systems
As the title suggests, this version of Chelsea Green's original 1999 version expands the scope to include commercial-scale wind turbines used in distributed applications. As such, this book includes wind turbines of all sizes. This edition makes a distinction between large numbers of commercial-scale wind turbines used in central-station power plants, or wind farms, and wind turbines used singly or in small clusters both on and off the grid.![]()
:: The SunOyster: Factor Five in Harvesting the Sunlight
Andreas Nöhrig was sitting in the sunny garden of an eco-hotel on the Canary Islands and felt disturbed by the constant humming of the diesel generator, and asked the manager why he does not use the abundant solar energy. „Too expensive“, was the answer, although a kilowatt hour of electricity from the generator is also everything but cheap. „That was the moment I decided to develop a solar technology which costs only a fraction of today’s PV.”![]()
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