Re:An innovative approach to making electricity from the wind
by abetusk on Friday September 06, 2019 @10:05AM
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The average US residential annual electricity consumption is around 11 MWh or around 30kWh / day (11,000 kWh / 365 days) [1]. Assuming it produces 600kW for 24h or around 14MWh / day, this services around 480 homes (600 kWh * 24h / 30 (kWh / home)).
Their website explicitly says [2] (Overview 1.4):
> designed to transfer up to 600 kilowatts of electrical power—enough to power about 300 homes
Re:An innovative approach to making electricity from the wind
by jdc on Friday September 06, 2019 @01:44AM
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600KW / (1500W / microwave oven) = 400 microwave ovens
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilowatt_hour#Confusion_of_kil...
Re:An innovative approach to making electricity from the wind
by rhinoceraptor on Friday September 06, 2019 @02:31PM
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If you were standing directly under a 36 meter wingspan kite, 500 meters off the ground, it would be about 16 times as wide as the size of the moon.
Re:An innovative approach to making electricity from the wind
by homero on Friday September 06, 2019 @04:58AM
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That's kw hours. A big house running air conditioning is only 6kwh.
Re:An innovative approach to making electricity from the wind
by dredmorbius on Friday September 06, 2019 @08:20AM
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kWh is a unit of energy, that is, power over time, kW is a unit of power, that is, instantaneous energy.
Your car engine is rated in power (typically horsepower in the US, though kW is equivalent), your car fuel tank is rated in energy, that is kWh or joules.
Power determines how hard you can work. Energy determines for how long.
A big house running AC for a hour would give you a kWh number. The instantaneous load is measured in kW.
Edit: Ignore the following line. It is too early in the morning.
--A single one is producing 600KW, so you need a few per household, and many thousands for a town.--