Comments on: Wind Energy http://www.a-quantum-reach.com/wind-energy.htm Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:57:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Ian Smith http://www.a-quantum-reach.com/wind-energy.htm#comment-1 Tue, 05 Sep 2006 16:15:56 +0000 http://www.a-quantum-reach.com/wind-energy.htm#comment-1 Wind energy has a lot more viable sites for installation if the practices of Denmark are adopted. There are 4 types of wind for windmills: weather based, climate based (air currents), terrain based (valleys near mountains) and inertia based. The inertia wind is the best option because it is always the same speed, always present, and globally available. It is less reliable over land (influenced by weather and terrain), but very reliable on the open ocean. Inertia based wind comes from the fact our Earth is spinning, and our atmosphere gets dragged along. The atmosphere doesn't automatically move at the same rate, and it is a layered effect (e.g. the upper atmosphere has different currents than lower atmosphere). By putting windmills on the ocean or higher into the atmsophere (perhaps atop buildings or mountains) we take advantage of consistent, regular wind. Wind energy has a lot more viable sites for installation if the practices of Denmark are adopted. There are 4 types of wind for windmills: weather based, climate based (air currents), terrain based (valleys near mountains) and inertia based. The inertia wind is the best option because it is always the same speed, always present, and globally available. It is less reliable over land (influenced by weather and terrain), but very reliable on the open ocean.

Inertia based wind comes from the fact our Earth is spinning, and our atmosphere gets dragged along. The atmosphere doesn’t automatically move at the same rate, and it is a layered effect (e.g. the upper atmosphere has different currents than lower atmosphere). By putting windmills on the ocean or higher into the atmsophere (perhaps atop buildings or mountains) we take advantage of consistent, regular wind.

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