Saturday, July 7, 2012

New future technology "Kitegen" - Eco-Friendly To Generate Electricity

It is pioneer to produce the electricity through the power of wind. It not only compete with the current electrical energy of industry, but also aim to decline the use of fossil fuels.
This concept was developed in Itay to produce electricity from high altitudes winds by the Italian researcher Massimo Ippolito.

In this wind is captured by 'Power Wing Profiles whose movement is automatically controlled by a computer. Kites are anchored through cables which are attached through structure to produce electricity on rotation. In this structure is called Turbine and kites are called Blades.

In this kites are rotated in predetermined trajectory which provide force to cable. Due to force a mechanical torque is produced to rotate the below structure (turbine).

To generate 1GW of power you require twenty rotating kites in 1.6m of diameter each at speed 15rev/sec, which is equivalent to medium size nuclear power station.
In other way I want to say that one cubic km generate 1GW of Power. This all possible where
high altitude wind flows.

Some facts about winds:-
Their are two types of wind flow bands-
First one passes over the southern hemisphere at the latitude of patagonia, another passes over the nothern hemisphere over the Europe.
They flow at altitude of 800m height with avg speed of 7m/sec to 10,000m height with avg speed is more than previous one with width is about 4,000 to 5,000 km produce an average
powe of 2KW per square.

If Kitegen produce 100MW peak power, then yearly it produces 500GW h/y, which is enough Power for 86ooo houses with Eco-Friendly nature, but this technique require high altitude wind.

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