1. Topic: Wind Turbine Design Objective: ▫ Learn about some of the factors that influence design of a wind turbine 1 Summary: ▫ Students learn about wind speed and wind turbine location effect power generation. Instructor Information

2. Topic: Wind Turbine Design Methodology: ▫ Direct instruction and questioning 2 Differentiation: ▫ Different levels of questioning can be provided to the students Instructor Information

3. Wind Turbine Design

4. Importance of the WIND RESOURCE

5. Why do windmills need to be high in the sky?

6. Importance of Wind Speed No other factor is more important to the amount of power available in the wind than the speed of the wind Power is a cubic function of wind speed ▫ V X V X V 20% increase in wind speed means 73% more power Doubling wind speed means 8 times more power

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8. Everything is not Perfect!! 8

10. Where is the wind? Where are the population centers? Where are the wind farms? How do we get wind energy from the wind farms to the population centers? Transmission Problems