Wind Power

By: Peter Musgrove

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Hardcover | 24 December 2009

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Climate change caused by burning fossil fuels and escalating fossil fuel prices make the further rapid development of renewable energy sources a global imperative. Energy provided by wind power, though no panacea, has the potential to make a substantial contribution to meeting electricity needs in many countries. This concise and accessible account of the history and future development of wind power technology offers a complete overview of this vital field for engineers, scientists, students and all readers interested in wind power. Requiring no prior technical knowledge, this book provides a global historical assessment of wind power use, encapsulating sequential experimental changes, and concluding with narration of wind deployment, and an assessment of future options. Wind power is shown as compatible with large scale use: a clean, competitive and abundant energy source to help meet our future needs.

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'Wind Power is a fully researched and carefully referenced story to be read page by page as an integrated whole. For the enthusiast, it is a thriller. ...Throughout [Musgrove] maintains the 'good read', with the text never muddled or boring. There have been many books on wind power, but none of this stature and competence for placing the technology as a pillar of our ongoing world economy.' John Twidell, AMSET Centre, Horninghold

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Preface
Acknowledgements
Wind power and our energy needs - an overview
The first windmills
Seven centuries of science
Generating electricity - the experimental years, 1887 to 1973
Evolution of the modern wind turbine, 1973 to 1990
Progress and economics in Europe, 1973 to 1990
UK progress, 1973 to 1990
Development and deployment, 1990 to 2008
The future: from marginal to mainstream
The power output from wind turbines
The performance of traditional windmills
Wind characteristics
Notes to chapters
Notes to Appendices
References
Index
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