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Alternate sources of Electri.
Title: Alternate sources of Electri.
Category: Science & Technology
Details: Words: 1138 | Pages: 4.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
Alternate sources of Electri.
Alternate Sources of Electricity: Wind Power
Wind is created from an unequal heating of the earths atmosphere therefore wind is an indirect form of solar energy. Convection currents, which occur due to the fact that warm air rises and cooler air drops, produces this cycle of air or wind. Some of the suns energy directly heats the air but mostly the heat is transferred form the earth into the atmosphere. “Between 1 - 2% of the solar radiation …showed first 75 words of 1138 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1138 total…farm is located at Crookwell in NSW, and consists of 8 x 600kW turbines, generating a total of 4.8MW. The other major wind farm in Australia is Western Power Corporation's Ten Mile Lagoon Wind Farm, located near Esperance on the south coast of WA. Ten Mile Lagoon has 9, 225kW wind turbines, generating a total of 2MW. An additional 10MW is being planned for Blayney, NSW which will double Australia's installed capacity of wind generation to 20MW.
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