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Wind Energy Facts
This page is laid out ... to help you find Wind Energy Facts as easily as possible. The basics of Wind Energy will be mostly at the beginning ... And as you click through its sub-pages the WIND ENERGY FACTS will get more and more technical (Wind Turbines) as you go.
The Wind Energy Facts
In this day and age, like solar power, almost everybody knows “about” wind power... Through this page and its sub-pages we'll give you as much good, accurate information and Wind Energy Facts as we can to provide a more thorough understanding of this subject and keep it updated with new information or if we find 'inaccuracies".
Click Here for Solar Facts
Click HERE for "Wind Energy Pros and Cons"
The scope of applications that use Wind Power is a little more narrow than its cousin Solar Energy but just as important.... especially in these days of needing to develop every source of alternate energy as we can.
"What Makes Wind" Click HERE
For Definition of "SOLAR WIND" Click HERE
Here are Facts on Wind Energy
We've been harnessing the wind's energy much longer than solar. In fact, for hundreds of years from the famous windmills of Holland, to historic farms in the U.S. Wind Energy was being used either for pumping water or grinding grain. Wind Turbines, or Wind Power Generators turn the driving force of the wind, through the use of a propeller, into rotational energy that turns a generator which produces electricity. There are two types of "Wind Turbines". The difference is based on the 'axis' in which the turbines rotate.
Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines (VAWT) are less common (Click HERE)
while the
Horizontal-Axis Wind Turbine (HAWT) are common.(Click HERE)
Modern Wind Turbines now have the potential to produce much more electricity per square foot of land space used as compared to solar power systems.Utility scale Wind Plants are being built by placing many large turbines close together capable of providing many Megawatts of electricity to their customers.
One Megawatt is equal to 1000 Kilowatts. One Kilowatt is equal to 1000 Watts.
The average U.S. household uses around 900 Kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity per month....... Think of it as every time you use 1000 watts of electricity you put it in a box. On a 900 (kWh) per month pace you would have used 900 “boxes” of electricity that month.. So on just a 500 (kWh) per month pace you'd use 500 “boxes”. On a 2000 (kWh) per month pace you'd use 2000 “boxes” etc.Many consider a Wind Turbine Power Generator to be a perfect companion to be included in their home solar power systems because of the fact that........A Wind Generator can take over and produce electricity during times when the solar cells can't. Like when the sun is not out but there is still enough wind or breeze to power the turbine.
(These Solar and Wind Power Combinations can be found on their own page either by clicking HERE
or on the navigation bar to the left under “Combinations”.)
Wind Turbine Costs will vary greatly. A professionally installed system can cost from $6,000-$22,000 and take from 6-15 years to pay for themselves. However there are many homemade wind "energy" power enthusiasts who build their own systems from scratch from salvaged and or “store bought” parts and it only cost them $0-$1,000 and they love every minute of it.
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