Posted by nicksanspam on September 18, 2007, 2:47 am
>By bringing the windmill almost to a halt, the mill stops harvesting
>wind energy and therefore you don't have much energy to dissipate.
It would seem nicer to keep harvesting at a maximum rate, with
the windmill partially stalled.
Nick
Posted by Neon John on September 18, 2007, 1:35 pm
On 18 Sep 2007 02:47:31 -0400, nicksanspam@ece.villanova.edu wrote:
>>By bringing the windmill almost to a halt, the mill stops harvesting
>>wind energy and therefore you don't have much energy to dissipate.
>It would seem nicer to keep harvesting at a maximum rate, with
>the windmill partially stalled.
Why? He's not doing anything with the energy. The windmills are just for show,
an
artsy-fartsy thing. Whatever energy is harvested would all have to be dissipated.
Much simpler to simply slow the mill to an almost stand-still and only have to
dissipate a little energy.
John
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Posted by nicksanspam on September 18, 2007, 4:21 pm
>>It would seem nicer to keep harvesting at a maximum rate, with
>>the windmill partially stalled.
>Why? He's not doing anything with the energy.
I missed that. It would be nice to do something with it, eg grid-tie.
Nick
Posted by Jordan on September 18, 2007, 8:32 pm
>>> It would seem nicer to keep harvesting at a maximum rate, with
>>> the windmill partially stalled.
>> Why? He's not doing anything with the energy.
>
> I missed that. It would be nice to do something with it, eg grid-tie.
>
> Nick
>
The artist wanted to do something with the wind energy, but budget
constraints won't allow it. However small solar panels and batteries
will be installed as well, to light up some lamps at night.
Posted by Anthony Matonak on September 18, 2007, 11:00 pm
Jordan wrote:
...
> The artist wanted to do something with the wind energy, but budget
> constraints won't allow it. However small solar panels and batteries
> will be installed as well, to light up some lamps at night.
It looks like a popular thing to do with small decorative wind turbines
is to attach LEDs to the blades.
Anthony
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>wind energy and therefore you don't have much energy to dissipate.