Wednesday, December 2, 2009

How could we make wind turbines smaller?

Konichiwa Minasan.

That was Japanese for Hello Everybody!!!!!!!!!!!! oh yeah, I know Japanese, in your face!!!!!!
I am actually learning Japanese in school, but I only started this year so I don't know much.
Sorry I'm getting side traked.
I am going to be answering another one of our sub-questions for you lovely people out in cyber space.

Question Two

How could we make wind turbines smaller? Can we make them smaller?

The ammount of electricity turbines produce, or make, all depends on how big the turbine is, so at the moment, yes is does matter how bie the turbines are. The bigger the blades of the turbine, the more electricity can be produced. And if the blades have to be bigger then the tower has to be to support the blades. We won't want the turbine falling over bacause the tower wasn't strong enough or the blades get stuck  in the ground because the blades are to long and reach the ground. That wouldn't be very good. The bigger the turbines are on a wind farm, the less you will need to produce the same ammount of electricity, but if you have the same ammount of large turbines as you did little ones you will make alot more electricity. YAY!!! So the bigger the turbine the better they are.
But unfortunatly the bigger the turbine, the bigger the cost. That is why only large companies have large turbines because the can make and sell the electricity comercially. But if you want just one turbine to power just your own home, a small turbine should do the trick. They are about 9 metres tall and have blades that span between 2 and 8 metres. These usually generate a little bit more electricity than needed for an average household so that can either be put in a generator to be stored and saved for when there is no wind or it can be sold to electricity companies to then used to power other homes.
So at the moment the size of the turbines can't be changed but like I said when I was answering the other question, scientests are probably trying to come up with a solution as we read (I wuold have said speak but that wouldn't have been right).

 Until next time
Luv kenzie

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