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Tariq Iqbal Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science Memorial University of Newfoundland http://www.engr.mun.ca/~tariq
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Where is it?
Produced Reserves Yet-to-Find
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Billion Barrels
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Non Renewable Energy Coal, Natural Gas, Petroleum, Nuclear Energy Alternate Energy (Renewable Energy)
Wind Energy Solar Energy Oceanic Energy (wave, tide, ocean thermal) Hydro Power Geothermal Biomass
Darrieus WT
Savonius WT
Basic equations
Power = 0.5 R2 u3 Cp (air density) at STP =1.2929, R is the radius of wind turbine u is the wind speed in m/s Cp is the power coefficient (.45) Torque = 0.5 R3 u2 Cq torque coefficient, Cq = Cp / . Tip speed ratio, = R / u
Hybrid2 (NREL) Bladed (Garrad Hassan, UK) Wind Screen 3 (U Mass.) WAsP (Denmark) WindPro (Denmark)
Economics
Links
www.peakoilandhumanity.com www.culturechange.org www.altenergy.org www.smallwindenergy.ca www.nrel.gov www.awea.org Thanks