Wind Energy Conservation System
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2011
Authors
Abed Allah Bzoor
Amer Ahmad Hussein Ali
Lqman Saleem
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There's a lot of underlying popular support for wind energy and the other renewable in the world. But there's also a lot of apathy as well. World is blissfully sedated by low conventional energy prices and are gulping down the few remaining years of cheap natural gas and Mid East oil. As world do this, the inertia of global warming is inexorably building. What drives the continued development of mechanical devices like wind turbines in the face of this widespread lack of support? In the case of wind turbine technology, the part of the reason for persistence of this vision is how accessible wind turbines are to the understanding. They are personal in a way that almost no other form of power generation is. This "personal" scale has been both the blessing and the curse of wind power development. The field tends to attract people who are committed, creative, and passionate. It also attracts a few people who are a little too much of all of those things, to the point that sometimes the grounding of reality is lost. Both of these tendencies will be evident in this brief history of wind power development. Wind power will probably succeed or fail based on the ability or inability of its proponents to bank the fires of "Romance" and focus on defining wind generation's role as a practical alternative to conventional generation sources. Wind energy conversion is a fascinating field to study, if only because its past has been so checkered and its exact future is so uncertain. Unlike the aerospace industry, the computer industry, and almost any other successful industry can name, wind energy as the leading mechanically-based renewable energy for much of man's history. But unlike many of these other industries, it has been around for thousands of years. It's a technology that has been reinvented numerous times.