Archive for March, 2011

How exactly do wind and solar power companies make their money?

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011

I only invest in small-cap energy based companies like oil, gas, petroleum, and more recently, wind and solar power. What I would like to know is how exactly do wind and solar power companies make their money? Please, I’d like to understand the industry a bit better. Thanks!

What kind of wind proof skirting can I use for my manufactured home?

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011

I live in Arizona and every summer we get monsoon winds that cause a "wind tunnel" and rip the skirting out from under my manufactured home. I’ve had reinforcement rods installed which did not work. Is there a stronger product or a different way to reinforce it?

How to estimate the energy of a wind turbine?

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

How to estimate the energy of wind turbine? how do i estimate the annual energy output of a 5kw wind turbine in an area which has a average wind speed of 7.4m/s at 10m above ground level, and the rated wind speed of the turbine is 10m/s. there is no buildins around to interfear with [...]

How to make a wind tunnel and what are the specifications that i would require?

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

Hi… I am thinking of making a wind tunnel with test section cross section of 10×10 cm2. and the length of the wind tunnel is 20 cm. i need to know what are the other specifications that i would require to make the wind tunnel work. i am thinking of using a hair dryer for [...]

How is wind energy going to create jobs?

Monday, March 21st, 2011

Not including the green jobs the free market has already taken into account. Wind energy costs 25% more than coal. In essence our energy productivity will go down by 25%. Whenever has productivity going down created jobs? Do not give me the foreign oil, the only time foreign oil is used in energy production is [...]

What battery is best for storing wind generated electricity?

Monday, March 21st, 2011

I am wanting to have a wind turbine/wind mill for my home to supplement or replace the grid electricity I use. I see that the winds come and go. So I need to store some amount of the electricity that my wind mill makes. What is the best and safest battery I can use? What [...]

How many wind farms are needed to create the same amount of energy that 1 average sized, nuclear station will?

Sunday, March 20th, 2011

I need to find out how much energy 1 average sized, (preferably british), nuclear power plant will produce comapred to wind farms and other renewable sources of energy. Or how many of each type of renewable energy station (e.g how many wind farms) will be needed to produce the power of one average nuclear plant. [...]

Can you change a wind zone 1 mobile home to a wind zone 2 by adding additional strapping or any other means?

Sunday, March 20th, 2011

I have a wind zone 1 mobile home that I want to move to a wind zone 2 area. I cannot buy another home and I only 3 1/2 years on this one. Can I strap or set up similar to modular to allow me to have my home in a wind zone 2 area?

How does a wind turbine convert the wind into energy we can you use?

Saturday, March 19th, 2011

I’m doing a science project with my best friend, and we want to see if we can convert wave energy into the kind of energy we can use, like a wind turbine. So, we want to know how a wind turbine can convert the wind into energy, then we can do the same with the [...]

How does wind speed link to the frequency of the wind? How does wind have a frequency?

Friday, March 18th, 2011

I know how frequency of oscillation affects resonant frequencies, but how does the speed of the wind link to it? How does wind have a frequency?

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