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Wind Power

Wind power is created with the help of wind turbines. These engines utilize the power within the wind to spin a magnet. The magnet spins inside an electrically conductive coil. The coil generates a current because of the spinning magnet. And voila! You have power.

Wind power is currently capped at about 35% efficiency. This efficiency rate is not capped due to flaws in the energy transfer system, rather it is capped because even in the windiest place on earth, the wind is not blowing all the time, nor is it always blowing with the same intensity. So a generator can only produce as much power as it’s receiving in the form of wind energy.

                However, there are untapped sources of wind energy that are… if not constant, nearly constant. Off shore and high atmospheric trade winds are nearly constant, and of a much greater intensity than you can regularly find anywhere else on earth. If we can tap these two sources of energy, wind energy capacity can be expanded to meet current and future demands.                

 

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