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Wind Power for the World
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Wind Power for the World

by Preben Maegaard, Anna Krenz, Wolfgang Palz
June 2013
Beginner content levelBeginner
676 pages
20h 39m
English
CRC Press
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Developer of the wind turbine, Werner Kastrup Pedersen
observed from his earth excavators that the hydraulic tubes got very
hot due to friction heat in the hydraulic system. He concluded that
a windmill would be able to agitate the oil in a heat brake designed
for the purpose. But this idea was abandoned, and instead he
began to make power-producing windmills with variable pitch
blades and a 58-pole synchronous generator from Transmotor.
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to do without the gearbox which has caused so many problems for
the windmills. If the Odder ...
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ISBN: 9789814364935