Wind power

Philipp Haußmann & Alexander Schneller

Index

• History

• Today

• Function

• Dates & facts

• Pro & contra

History

• Oldest windmills (Persien, Tibet, China)– waterpump, cornmilling

• 12 th century Europe• 1887-1888 wind turbine (Charles F. Brush)

– Westernmills • 1983-1987 GROWIAN

– Rotor 100m

• „Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz“ (EEG)– 1991

Today

• Offshore

• Advance of the technology–Same basis

• Windfarms

Function

Dates & facts

• Germany - Nr.1 Worldwide with 18.428 MW• NRW - Nr.4 in Germany with 2.226 MW• Installed wind energy in Germany • 6,7% of all energy is wind power• Thats like 2,8 nuclear power plants

Pro & contra

• renewable energy• conservation-

conscious• No polution

• Noise• Landscape• Expensive• Big area to other

energyform

Questions

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Westernmills

GROWIAN

Offshore

Windfarms

Installed wind energy in Germany