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Wind power for the world : the rise of modern wind energy / editors, Preben Maegaard, Anna Krenz, Wolfgang Palz.

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This book sheds light on how the modern 3-bladed wind turbine came into being, and who, how and what in the proceeding period caused the success. It looks back over three decades to find the roots of this exciting development, a long cavalcade of developers, inventors, and manufacturers including th...

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Online Access: Full Text (via O'Reilly/Safari)
Other Authors: Maegaard, Preben, Krenz, Anna, Palz, W. (Wolfgang), 1937-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton, FL : Pan Stanford Publishing : CRC Press (an imprint of Taylor & Francis), ©2013.
Series:Pan Stanford series on renewable energy ; v. 2.
Subjects:
Wind power.
Wind power
History
Table of Contents:
  • The wind power story / Ross Jackson
  • Forty years of wind energy development / Jos Beurskens
  • History of Danish wind power / Benny Christensen
  • The aerodynamic research on windmill sails of Poul la Cour, 1896-1900 / Povl-Otto Nissen
  • Networks of wind energy enthusiasts and the development of the "Danish Concept" / Katherine Dykes
  • Danish pioneering of modern wind power / Niels I. Meyer
  • From energy crisis to industrial adventure: a chronicle / Preben Maegaard
  • Økær Vind Energi-- Standard blades for early wind industry / Erik Grove-Nielsen
  • From Herborg blacksmith to Vestas / Henrik Stiesdal
  • From Danregn to bonus / Egon Kristensen
  • Vind-Syssel 1985-1990 / Flemmin Østergaard
  • The story of Dencon / Bent Gregersen
  • Water brake windmills / Jørgen Krogsgaard
  • Cooperative energy movement in Copenhagen / Jens Larsen
  • The Danish small wind power / Jane Kruse
  • Cosigned to oblivion / Preben Maegaard
  • Hütter's heritage: the Stuttgart School / Bernward Janzing and Jan Oelker
  • Overview of German wind industry roots / Arne Jaeger
  • Direct drive wind turbines / Friedrich Klinger
  • How the early 1980s micro- and power-electronics innovation in Germany revolutionised wind energy systems / Jürgen Sachau
  • How the electricity Feed-In Law (Stromeinspeisungsgesetz) came to be passed by the German Parliament, enabling renewable energies to establish their positions in the market / Ulrich Jochimsen
  • Wind, women, art, acceptance / Brigitte Schmidt
  • California: wind farms retrospective / Arne Jaeger
  • Emergence of wind energy: the University of Massachusetts / James F. Manwell
  • An American personal perspective / Steven B. Smiley and Susan J. Kopka
  • Residential wind by way of illustration / Igor Avkshtol
  • Wind power in China: Chasing a dream that creates value / Qin Haiyan
  • Rising wind power industry of XEMC / Zhou Jianxiong.

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