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Wind Power, Revised Edition: Renewable Energy for Home, Farm, and Business |  | Author: Paul Gipe
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 43734
Media: Paperback
Edition: Rev Exp
Pages: 504
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Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 8 x 1.1
ISBN: 1931498148
Dewey Decimal Number: 621.45
EAN: 9781931498142
ASIN: 1931498148
Publication Date: April 2004
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Wind energy today is a booming worldwide industry. The technology has truly come of age, with better, more reliable machinery and a greater understanding of how and where wind power makes sense--from the independent homestead to a grid-connected utility-wide perspective. Heightened concerns about our environment mean that this resurgence of interest in wind--a natural and widespread power source--is here to stay. Wind Power is the completely revised and expanded edition of Paul Gipe's definitive 1993 book, Wind Power for Home and Business. In addition to expanded sections on gauging wind resources and siting wind turbines, this edition includes new examples and case studies of successful wind systems, international sources for new and used equipment, and hundreds of color photographs and illustrations.
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 An almost complete book on wind power September 5, 2009
Edgar Paternina (Colombia. South America)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Certainly in this book is covered in detail all that one must know about wind power, except evidently grid-tie systems without batteries as the chapter about it, Interconnection with the Utility, has little technical information about this new topic in which the Inverter and its Anti-Islanding requisite to protect the Utility maintenance personnel during outages, makes the wind generator useless when it is more needed, as the inverter must shut down the whole system during that time when the grid is off.
In fact most books about wind power has little to say about this topic either, they usually are about systems with batteries; even excellent references as the must-read books by Hugh Piggott, A Wind Turbine Recipe Book and How to Build a Wind Turbine, and The Renewable Energy Handbook by William H. Kemp they do not touch this topic for which I was looking for a solution because in my particular project it is a real need: during outages I have much wind.
Because of a long and kind conversation with a Power One engineer, I think I have found a solution for this problem, that I pretend to test in the very near future in my own place, and that I want to share with the wind power community through this great opportunity offered by Amazon; the solution is to install a similar controller(without the bridge rectifier)with dump loads on the AC side of the inverter, i.e., 240Vac, as that one used on the controller on the AC side of the wind generator to prevent over voltages when there is too much wind. Additionally we must have a small power plant(instead of batteries) with good frequency and voltages to simulate the grid during outages but connected manually, with a corresponding disconnect switch for the grid, a so called transfer switch.
I really would appreciate any comment about this problem!!!
Edgar
 Lots of information February 9, 2009
Paul (Netherlands)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Indeed a lot of information on windpower, from mini-systems to full scale development and everything in between. Interesting reading, but too detailed for general reading (although using it as a reference document certainly is valuable) and not enough details if you really want to design or install your own full fledged system. However, if you plan to buy a unit, this book gives you lots information to prevent circumvent the pitfalls.
 Very god book but.......... November 30, 2008
M. Sanchez (Chula Vista, CA USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is very good but the author need to go first from the general to the particular, specially in formulas. Going first from the particular then later jumping to the general formulas make the understanding kind of confusing.
Also the formulas are written in smaller fonts than that used in the wording text, for me some times were difficult to read. I rather would save some space in some many post card type pictures and and use it for bigger fonts in the formulas.
Other than this, the book is very good for a general understanding of wing power generation technology with so many graphs, tables, information, references and.... pictures.
M Sanchez
Almost one stop shopping August 2, 2008
Dirk J. Willard (Chicago, IL)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Paul Gipe has provided a thoroughly readable text presenting all details necessary for selecting and managing a windfarm. It is clear that he has dedicated his life to this technology.
This text provides charts and equations for sizing windmills. It includes numerous recommendations for selecting vendors and contractors for installing a windmill, and lots of maintenance details. What I found particularly interesting was his descriptions of past failures and why they failed. He warns you of danger signals when buying a windmill such as:
The maximum capacity for generating electricity from a windmill is determined by its rotor not its generator.
I am still in the process of reading this massive text but the first 200 pages have been enlightening. I highly recommend this text for anyone involved in establishing a windfarm for municipalities and others. This is a must read.
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Blown away with all this information June 1, 2008
Not one paper cut while reading!
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a very technical book. Loads of details. Eye opening for any amature thinking "Oh, I'll just get a windmill and I won't have any more electric bills!" Worth reading if you really want to produce green electricity. You need considerable land, about a year's worth the wind data for your particular site, more than a few thousand bucks, and even then, you may still find that it won't pay for itself. One thing I didn't think about is that ice can form on the blades and fling off- hitting your home, a neighbor's home, or a car...
Is it a good book? Yes. Very clear, complete information on the topic.
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