You may have missed Express-News writer Anton Caputo's January 2009 article on the opening of what will be part of the largest concentration of wind power generation capacity in the world.
Two wind projects in Kenedy County will have a capacity of up to 900 megawatts.
On the Earth Matters Express News Blog, Anton expanded upon the information in his article.
He included a link to a Brown and Babcock presentation in pdf form on the measures they have taken to avoid killing migratory birds.
The following is submitted for information. Details at www.renewableenergypumps.com
ReplyDeletePROPOSAL
1. Wave Water Pump - WWP
• Lifts a small quantity of water to a high head due to the Potential Energy of the incoming wave, collects it in a piping network and feeds it to a hydro-turbo generator to produce electric power
• A set of pumps up to ten and a mile wide may be installed in line with the incoming wave to extract most of its energy.
1. Wave Air Pump - WAP
• Compresses air due to Kinetic Energy of the incoming wave, collects it in a piping network and feeds it into the air inlet of a turbo generator. Fuel is injected as needed to maintain turbo generator output irrespective of wave heights.
• Utilizes an existing power plant, or a new power plant close to the shore.
• Ideal for off-shore wind turbine farms, as it utilizes the off-shore wind turbine supporting structure as a Wave Air Pump at negligible cost.
2. Wind Turbine Pump – WTP
• Present design of wind turbines call for installing 3-blade turbines to directly drive a generator installed at the top of the wind turbine supporting structure.
• One firm boasts that it had developed a 100 meter diameter wind turbine and installing a 5-Mega Watt generator weighing 403 tons at the tope of the wind turbine supporting structure. This is an engineering achievement, to provide the highway to transport the equipment to site, lift a 403 ton generator and install it at a minimum height of 70-meters above ground level. Many reasons make this as ridiculous: Cost, Frequency Stabilization, Operation and Maintenance, and dependability; since NO Wind NO Power Output.
• A simpler way is to make the wind turbine directly drive a fluid pump installed at the tope of the mast, transmit the power down the mast to a ground based generator. This technology is known and developed.
• Another method is to have the fluid power drive an air compressor at ground level, collect the compressed air from more than one wind turbine and feed the compressed air to the air inlet of a turbo generator. Fuel is fed according to power requirements and is used to stabilize frequency. This is a known and proven technology.
• In this manner power is generated irrespective of availability of wind and is more economical than any other proposed systems