WHAT IS GREEN ENERGY?
ENERGY
WINDMILL FARMS ANSWERS:
Ways to create energy without releasing carbon dioxide (or CO2), such as solar, wind, and hydro power. Not burning fossil fuels, such as coal.
Charles asks...
HOW DOES WINDER ENERGY/POWER ADVANCE SCIENCE?
WINDMILL FARMS ANSWERS:
Wind up toys have fascinated children with basic mechanics for centuries and these children may later become scientists because of their fascination.
Wind power technology is green washing, as it's not load following, it can only be used for base load power and as it's performance is based on the presence of suitable wind, you can only expect power 1/6th of the time so alternate power sources are required. Wind turbines are rated at their full capacity so they allow utilities to sell power at higher subsidized rates for wind power even though 5/6 of the power are from conventional sources. Wind turbines are just a way of collecting more profit from natural gas power plants.
Linda asks...
GREEN POWER- SPECIFICATIONS AND SCHEMATICS?
WINDMILL FARMS ANSWERS:
What one.
Green power is a subset of renewable energy (Graph 1) and represents those renewable energy resources and technologies that provide the highest environmental benefit. EPA defines green power as electricity produced from solar, wind, geothermal, biogas, biomass, and low-impact small hydroelectric sources. Customers often buy green power for avoided environmental impacts and its greenhouse gas reduction benefits.
Ruth asks...
GREEN ENERGY FOLKS, WHY IS T BONE PICKENS SAYING WIND POWER IS CRAP?
he has given up on it.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/04/11/t-boone-pickens-ive-lost-my-WIND-POWER-jobs-are-oil-and-gas-industry
WINDMILL FARMS ANSWERS:
Cause it is, like 99.9% of all alternative energy
Joseph asks...
CAN WIND ENERGY BE STORED?
I'm doing a project where I have to design a "GREEN" Cruise Ship. I thought it would be cool if my ship ran off of WINDENERGY. I want to create a port where there IS a WIND farm that my ship would visit every couple weeks.so IS it possible to fuel a Cruise Ship with WIND like you would gas? Can you store WINDPOWER?
WINDMILL FARMS ANSWERS:
To store the mechanical energy from wind, different solutions are possible:
- chemical storage (battery or generation of fuels such as hydrogen with the electricity)
- storage as a potential energy (e.g. Generated electricity and use it to pump water in a higher dam so that it can flow again down through turbines and generate again electricity)
- storage as heat or pressure which can be used to run a turbine afterwards
- storage as mechanical energy (e.g. Very fast rotating large steel cyclinder at 100 000 rotations per second On magnetic bearings)
