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1. The power of the wind
Consider a moving air mass with velocity V . A volume of air of length L parallel to the direction of the wind and of area S is characterised by:
a linear momentum SLρV ;
a kinetic energy of 1/2 SLρV 2 where ρ is the density of the air.
To calculate the power passing over an area S perpendicular to the direction of the wind we can say L = V . Therefore the power of...
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Bibliography
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Wind power – from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org.wiki/Wind_power
Wind Energy Development Programmatic EIS http://www.windeis.anl.gov/index.cfm
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Delft University Wind energy research institute DUWind (États-Unis)
Texas Tech University’s National Wind Institute NW (États-Unis)
National Wind Technology Center (États-Unis)
Risø DTU National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy (Danemark)
Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology (-Allemagne)
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