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Assessment of Research Needs for Wind Turbine Rotor Materials Technology (1991) / Chapter Skim
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... While land intensive, wind power plants can coexist with other uses of the land on which they are situated. Wind power plants installed in the early 1980s suffered structural failures chiefly because of incomplete understanding of the wind forces (especially the turbulence component)
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... The committee believes that the United States is facing a future reduction in most fossil fuel sources of energy. When this is coupled with a resurgence of public concern over environmental issues in energy production, the need to develop wind power energy to the fullest extent possible seems compelling.
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... MANUFACTURING Two emerging manufacturing processes, resin transfer molding, and pultrusion, offer significant opportunities for cost reduction but with attendant limitations on blade design freedom. A feasibility study should be conducted to evaluate each of these processes in a real application and at a reasonable scale, allowing realistic design and cost trade studies to be accomplished.
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Key Terms

  • wind power
  • turbine rotor
  • wind energy
  • rotor materials
  • power equipment

  • energy production
  • utility power
  • wind turbines
  • manufacturing processes
  • producing blades

  • rotating field
  • interconnected wind
  • tax incentives
  • programs sponsored
  • develop wind

  • significant opportunities
  • plants installed
  • gain worldwide
  • providing capacity
  • experience base

  • power plant
  • stochastic loadings
  • fragile nature
  • wind industry
  • reasonable scale

  • power carried
  • additional limitation
  • design tools
  • gaseous emissions
  • determine structural


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