Small Scale Renewables Sven Ruin

Small-Scale Renewable Energy Systems is a slim 210-page book on hybrid renewable projects by Swedish authors Sven Ruin and Göran Sidén.

Rare Photo Of A Magnus Effect Wind Turbine At The Southern California Edison Test Site Near Palm Springs Sometime In The Late 1970s Or Early 1980s. It Was Featured On The Cover Off Popular Science Magazine.

I bristled when Vaughn Nelson contacted me for help with his new book Innovative Wind Turbines. Not that it was Vaughn. He’s my mentor and the founder of West Texas A&M University’s Alternative Energy Institute (AEI). Vaughn first taught me the importance of swept area and how to quickly cut through the hype that often surrounds new wind turbines. He’s the physicist I turn to when I have a wind question. And no it wasn’t that he was asking for some photos I’d taken decades ago of obscure wind turbines. It was simply the word “innovative.”

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The expansive title of Vaughn Nelson’s Wind Energy is appropriate as Nelson delves into such taboo topics as population, exponential growth, and exhaustion of fossil fuels.

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This is a welcome technical tome-well illustrated with photos and drawings that I haven’t seen in any other book. Naturally directed at the Indian market, it nonetheless has taken a comprehensive approach to explaining wind turbine theory, design, and project development to Indian engineers. . .

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L’éolien au cœur de l’incontournable révolution énergétique is a serious work on wind energy for francophone readers. It is my … Read more

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Massive. That’s the first word that comes to mind when picking up the 600-page tome by John Twidell and Tony … Read more

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Long-time wind energy advocate Tore Wizelius is one of the Swedish pioneers of the technology. Finally his thoughtful book on … Read more

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Wind Power in Power Systems is edited by the very capable Thomas Ackermann. It is a massive 691 pages on … Read more

Ion Paraschivoiu is Aeronautical Chair Professor at École Polytechnique de Montréal and he brings to the cornucopia of new books … Read more

It’s been many years since the publication of new engineering texts on wind energy. But in 2001 a flood of … Read more