Aerodynamic Studies of
Darrieus Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (VAWTS)
Development and Analysis of Vertical-Axis Wind
Turbines, Chapter 8, Paul Copper, School of Mechanical,
Materials and Mechatronic Engineering, University of
Wollongong, NSW, Australia (link
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Aerodynamic Models for Darrieus-type
Straight-Bladed Vertical Axis Wind Turbines,Islam et al.,
Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews 12, pp. 1087-1109,
2008 (link)
Overview of the Vertical Axis Wind Turbines,
Kumara et al., Int. J. Sci. Res. & Innovative Tech.
4, pp. 56-67, 2017 (link
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Effect of Camber Airfoil on Self Starting of
Vertical Axis Wind Turbine - Beri & Yao - J. Env. Sci.
Tech . 4, pp. 302-12, 2011 (link
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A New Approach for Modeling Darrieus-Type
Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Rotors Using Electrical Equivalent
Circuit Analogy: Basis of Theoretical Formulations and Model
Development, Tchakoua et al., Energies 8, pp. 10684-10717,
2015 (link
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The
Autogyro Effect that propels both "Darrieus" Vertical Axis Wind
Turbines & Gyrocopters
"Pathe Newsreel" about flight of early British
Autogyros (1967)
Dynamic Modeling, Simulation and Control
Strategies for 2 MW Wind Generating Systems, Mihet-Popa
& Groza, International Review of Modeling and
Simulations 5, 2010 (link
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Wind Energy Fact Sheet, University of Michigan
Center for Sustainable Systems (link
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Darrieus Turbines
CFD Simulations of Power Coefficients for an
Innovative Darrieus Style Vertical Axis Wind Turbine with
Auxiliary Straight Blades, Arpino et al., IOP Conf.
Series: Journal of Physics: Conf. Series 923 (2017) 012036 (link
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Analysis of Different Blade Architectures on
smallVAWT Performance, L. Battisti et al., 2016 J. Phys.:
Conf. Ser. 753 062009 (link
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Aerodynamic Performance of a 5 Metre Diameter
Darrieus Turbine with Extruded Aluminum NACA 0015 blades,
Sandia Labs, 1980 (link
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Savonius Turbines
Experimental Studies of Savonius Wind Turbines
with Variations Sizes and Fin Numbers Towards Performance,
Utomo et al., AIP Conference Proceedings 1931, 030041, 2018
(link
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An Experimental Study on Improvement of
Savonius Rotor Performance, Mahmoud et at., Alexandria
Engineering Journal 51, 19–25, 2012 (link
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Design and Evaluation of Twisted Savonius Wind
Turbine, Duffet et al, School of Engineering. Memorial
University (Newfoundland & Labrador CA) (link
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Aerodynamics 201
Bernoulli's Equation
Bernoulli Equation, Georgia State University (link
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Wind Vision Report, U.S. Department of Energy, 2015 (link
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Wind Energy Technology: Current Status and R&D Future, U.S.
National Renewable Energy Lab, 2008 (link
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Analysis of Transportation and Logistics Challenges Affecting
the Deployment of Larger Wind Turbines, U.S. National Renewable
Energy Lab, 2014 (link
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An Illustrated Guide to the Growing Size of Wind Turbines,
Greentech Media, 2017 (link
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Size Matters: The Next Big Thing In Wind Turbines, General
Electric Reports (link
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These Huge New Wind Turbines are a Marvel -They’re also the
future, VOX, 2018 (link
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World’s Largest Wind Turbine Would be Taller Than the Empire
State Building, Scientific, 2017 (link
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PART
II
Offshore Wind Power
Smithsonian
Channel show about wind turbine installation ship M.V.
Resolution:
After an Uncertain Start, U.S. Offshore Wind is
Powering Up, Yale Environment 360, 2018 (link
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Floating Wind Farm Plan Could Finally Crack
California's Offshore Market, MIT Technology Review, 2017 (link
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New Offshore Wind Project Planned for
California, The Maritime Executive, 2017 (link
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Northern California Could be Home to First U.S.
Floating Wind Farm, MarineLog.com, 2018 (link
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Spreadsheet behind Wind
Power - Part II noteset simulations of offshore wind
turbine + cruise ship (link):
Wind Power Economics
See my note set: Power Plant Economics: Analysis
Techniques & Data (pptx
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Wind Power Return on
Energy Invested
See my note set: Lifetime Energy Return on Energy Invested
- EROI (pptx
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The seminal research publication on EROI:
Murphy 2010: Year in review - EROI or Energy Return
on (Energy) Invested, Annals of the New York
Academy of Sciences 1185, pp. 102–118, 2010 (link)
Other research studies of Wind
Power's EROI:
White 1998: Net Energy Payback and CO2 Emissions
from Wind-Generated Electricity in the Midwest (link
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Cohen 2008: Technology Improvement Opportunities
for Low Wind Speed Turbines and Implications for Cost of
Energy Reduction,
U.S. National Renewable Energy Lab, TP 500 41036, 2008 (link
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Kubiszewski 2010: Meta-Analysis of Net Energy Return
for Wind Power Systems,
Renewable Energy 35, 218-25, 2010 (link)
Tegen 2010: 2010 Cost of Wind Energy Review,
U.S. National Renewable Energy Lab, TP 5000 52920, 2010 (link
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Hand 2010: Wind Generation Technology Cost Modeling,
U.S. National Renewable Energy Lab, talk 2010 (link
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Lantz 2012: The Past and Future Cost of Wind Energy,
IEA Wind Task 26, U.S. National Renewable Energy Lab,
2012 (link
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Hand 2013: Wind Plant Cost of Energy: Past and Future,
U.S. National Renewable Energy Lab, talk 2013 (link
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AWEA 2013: Setting the Record Straight about Wind’s
Lifecycle Emissions and Return on Energy Invested,
American Wind Association Blog, 2013 (link
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Integrating Wind Power
into the Grid
Elertropaedia's overview of wind power and its
Grid synchronization technology (link
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Wikipedia's list of power stations in Southern
Australia (link
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News reports of the
blackout:
South Australia Power Outage: How did it
Happen? Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 28 September
2016 (link
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Australia Has Serious Problems With Green
Energy Triggering Blackouts, The Daily Caller, 23 November
2016 (link
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Reaction / exploitation of
the event:
South Australia's Blackout Blame Game, The
Diplomat, 5 October 2016 (link
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Tesla Battery Races to Save Australia Grid
from Coal Plant Crash, Electrek.co, 19 December 2017 (link
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South Australia’s Blackout Draws Attention to
Battery Storage: "A critical level of battery storage to
provide adequate resilience could be many years away,"
GreentechMedia.com, 24 October 2017 (link
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Subsequent reports &
expert analyses:
AEMO Integrated Final Report on the 2016
Southern Australia Blackout - March 2017 (link
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AEMO Releases Final Report into SA Blackout
- Blames Wind Farm Settings for State-Wide Power
Failure , Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 28
March 2017 (link
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Final Report Reveals the Causes of South
Australia’s Statewide Blackout, News.com.au, 28 March 2017
(link
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South Australian Select Committee’s State-Wide
Electricity Blackout and Subsequent Power Outages Inquiry
Report, 12 April 2017 (link
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South Australia's Blackouts: It's not Black or
White, Australian Energy Council, 11 May 2017 (link
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Australian Electricity Market: Struggling to
Cope with De-Carbonisation, Watt-Logic.com, 2 June 2017 (link
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Amid Blackout Scare Stories, Remember that a
Grid without Power Cuts is Impossible... and Expensive,
PhysOrg, 27 August 2018 (link
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The Broader Impacts of
Wind Power
Impact of Onshore Wind
Farms on Birds & Bats
Exploratorium
video about bird strikes at the Altamont Wind Farm (edited
version):
Seminal study about
bird and bat kills due to wind turbines
Comparing Bird and Bat Fatality-Rate Estimates Among North
American Wind-Energy Projects, K. Shawn Smallwood, Wildlife
Society Bulletin 37(1), pp. 19–33, 2013 (link
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My re-analysis of that Appendix II data taking into
account effect of turbine height (cached
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Press & advocacy group reporting about that study:
Wind Turbines Kill More Birds than BP Oil Spill, Daily
Caller, 20 April 2015 (link
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License to Kill: Wind and Solar Decimate Birds and Bats,
Institute for Energy Research, 29 April 2015 (link
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Wind Farms Kill 10-20 Times More Than Previously Thought,
SaveTheEaglesInternational.org (organization's link now broken
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Seminal study on the likely effect of
wind turbine color upon bat kill rates:
The Interaction of Bats (Microchiroptera) with Wind
Turbines: Bioacoustic and other Investigations, Chloe V.
Long, Ph.D. Thesis, Loughborough University 2011 (link
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Treehugger.Com's story about the preceding wind turbine
color study (link
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Comparisons of bird kill rates
from all manmade sources
Direct Mortality of Birds from Anthropogenic Causes, Loss
et al., Annual Reviews 2015 (link)
State of the Birds.Org's 2014 Annual Report (link
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Audubon Society's Position on
Wind Power (link
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Impact of Offshore
Wind Farms on Sea Life
Marine Life Thrives in
Unlikely Place: Offshore Oil Rigs, New York Times, 7 March
2016 (link
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First Evidence that Offshore Wind Farms are
Changing the Oceans, MIT Technology Review, 2017 (link
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copy), describing the following now published paper:
The Large Scale Impact of Offshore Wind Farm
Structures on Pelagic Primary Productivity in the Southern
North Sea, Slavik et al., arXiv.org, 2018 (link
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Noise
Britain's
Telegraph Newspaper using a Decibel Meter to measure noise in
various locales:
