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Airborne Wind Farms - Opportunities, Trends and Challenges
DefinitionAirborne wind farm is a design concept for a wind turbine that is supported in the air without a tower. A tether would be used to transmit energy to the ground, either mechanically or through electrical conductors. These systems would have the advantage of tapping an almost constant wind and doing so without a set of slip rings or yaw mechanism, without the expense of tower construction.
Market Need
Wind energy equipment that can provide electricity more reliably and efficiently than current wind farm designs
Trends
• Sky Windpower (www.skywindpower.com) estimates that their airborne technology will be capable of producing electricity for $0.02 per KWh, significantly lower than the current price of non-subsidized electricity.
• Globally, the long-term technical potential of wind energy is believed to be more than current total global energy production. Tapping this potential however could require large amounts of land to be used for wind turbines, particularly in areas of higher wind resources. Along with offshore wind resources, airborne farms could exploit wind energy potential substantially better than current wind farm designs.
posted by Ecacofonix at
8:42 AM
Monday, September 7, 2009
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