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Dimitrios Kanellopoulos, Safeguarding Earth

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos, Safeguarding Earth

Why on earth do all wind turbines have exactly three blades? ship propellers can manage with two – and one would immediately think that 4 or 5 blades would catch even more wind and therefore provide even more power. The 3-blade horizontal axis wind turbine is the most advantageous option, in several technical and operational…
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Turbine blade convoy passing through Edenfield in the UK The components of a wind turbine need to be transported from the factories to the wind farm where they will be installed. The difficulty is that current wind blades are very large, being able to be 100 meters long, or even more. Wind farms are usually…
Workshop Video Day 1 Program of the first day (time in brackets are the times in the video):09:00 Arrival and registration09:30 (1:24) IntroductionWorkshop goals(15:32) Introductions10:00 (37:45) Where are we with very short-term forecasting? Workshop Video Day 2 Program for day 2 (times in the stream are in brackets):09:00 (00:45) Welcome and recap of Day 109:15…