Wind Power
£27.00
GBPClimate change caused by burning fossil fuels and escalating fossil fuel prices make the further rapid development of renewable energy sources a global imperative. Energy provided by wind power, though no panacea, has the potential to make a substantial contribution to meeting electricity needs in many countries. This concise and accessible account of the history and future development of wind power technology offers a complete overview of this vital field for engineers, scientists, students and all readers interested in wind power. Requiring no prior technical knowledge, this book provides a global historical assessment of wind power use, encapsulating sequential experimental changes, and concluding with narration of wind deployment, and an assessment of future options. Wind power is shown as compatible with large scale use: a clean, competitive and abundant energy source to help meet our future needs.
- Considers the factors underpinning wind power's exponential growth since 1990, to help understand what we can expect from wind power in the future
- Shows how the cost of wind energy compares with electricity produced by burning fossil fuels and explains simply how wind turbines work
- Overcomes common misconception that wind power's unpredictability prevents its large scale use
Reviews & endorsements
'Wind Power is a fully researched and carefully referenced story to be read page by page as an integrated whole. For the enthusiast, it is a thriller. …Throughout [Musgrove] maintains the 'good read', with the text never muddled or boring. There have been many books on wind power, but none of this stature and competence for placing the technology as a pillar of our ongoing world economy.' John Twidell, AMSET Centre, Horninghold
Product details
December 2009Paperback
9780521747639
338 pages
228 × 150 × 15 mm
0.55kg
88 b/w illus. 10 tables
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Wind power and our energy needs - an overview
- 2. The first windmills
- 3. Seven centuries of service
- 4. Generating electricity - the experimental years, 1887 to 1973
- 5. Evolution of the modern wind turbine, 1973 to 1990
- 6. Progress and economics in Europe, 1973 to 1990
- 7. UK progress, 1973 to 1990
- 8. Development and deployment, 1990 to 2008
- 9. The future: from marginal to mainstream
- Appendix 1. The power output from wind turbines
- Appendix 2. The performance of traditional windmills
- Appendix 3. Wind characteristics
- Notes to chapters
- Notes to Appendices
- References
- Index.
