Enhancing the conversion efficiency of wind-powered generators.

Ample, renewable, widely distributed, clean, and environmentally friendly, wind energy is the largest and fastest growing segment in the renewable energy generation category. Global wind power production quadrupled between from 2000 to 2006 and, in Europe alone, is expected to provide electricity for 86 million people by 2010.

Most modern wind power is generated in the form of electricity by converting the rotation of turbine blades into electrical current by means of an electrical generator. Wind power is used in large-scale wind farms for national electrical grids as well as in small individual turbines for providing electricity to rural residences or grid-isolated locations.

The current efficiency of wind power generators could be increased by adding the M2E magnet and coil system.

Wind Power Links

American Wind Power Association » www.awea.org

World Wind Energy Association » www.wwindea.org » www.world-wind-energy.org » www.thewindpower.net

U.S. Dept of Energy » www1.eere.energy.gov/windandhydro/ » www.thewindpower.net