Engineering & Technologies, Vol 10, No 5 (2017)

Powers adjusting wind turbine means investigation

Andrey Alecsandrovich Achitaev, Natalya Vladislavovna Zubova, Sergey Nicholaevich Udalov

Abstract


Today, wind power is the fastest-growing renewable energy source. Wind power is free, clean and endless. Furthermore, the cost of the electricity produced by wind turbines already reached the point where it is comparable with that of electricity produced by some of the conventional, fossil based power plants. However, it is still important to improve upon the technology in order to keep wind energy economically competitive with traditional and other renewable energy sources. In this paper, the idea of a variable-length blades, microdevices, and plasma jet drives are offered as a means of improving energy generation wind turbines.