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Possible Means of Large-scale Use of Wind as a Source of Energy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

John O'M. Bockris
John O'M. Bockris
Affiliation:
Professor of Chemistry and Director, Institute of Solar and Electrochemical Energy Conversion, School of Physical Sciences, Flinders University of South Australia, Bedford Park, Adelaide, South Australia 5042, Australia.
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To circumvent the coming energy crisis the development of new sources is popularly associated with the gasification of coal and with atomic breeder reactors, although solar and nuclear fusion sources are distant possibilities. But coal is limited in supply and breeders will not be ready in time to replace the remaining oil and natural gas; wind offers a more likely possibility.

The practical equation for electricity obtained after conversion to hydrogen, passage, and reconversion to electricity, is:

for a rotor of 100 m radius in a location where the mean annual wind is v k.p.h. Thus, for v = 30, Pelec ≃ 5 MW per rotor.

The concept of large sea-borne rotors in high-velocity wind-belts with long-distance hydrogen transmission offers a more readily attainable (and more environmentally acceptable) prospect than atomic, or solar, possibilities.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , Winter 1975 , pp. 283 - 288
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1975

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