How is wind energy used to produce electricity?

Answer 1

According to the American Wind Energy Association, the forces of wind are converted to electricity through the use of a wind turbine. In a standard modern wind turbine kinetic energy from the win's moving air molecules is turned into rotational motion by the rotor. A rotor is a three-bladed device (looking like the rotor on a household fan except much larger) that sits at the front of the wind turbine. Wind causes the rotor to turn a shaft that transfers the motion to a nacelle, the large housing at the top of a wind turbine tower. Inside the nacelle, the rotating shaft enters a gearbox that increases the shaft's speed of rotation. The fast rotating shaft is connected to a generator that converts the movement into electricity and medium voltage.

Once the wind has been converted into medium voltage electricity, equivalent to a few hundred volts, that electricity goes down through heavy electric cables in the tower to a transformer which is able to increase the voltage up to a few thousand volts - the distribution voltage. This voltage power, which flows more easily through electric lines, travels through underground lines to a collection area where the power can be combined with other wind turbines.

This electricity from wind power is usually sent to nearby farms, homes and towns for usages. If it is not sent to towns and homes is it sent to a substation where the voltage is increased greatly to a few hundred thousand volts (called transmission-voltage power) to be sent through very tall transmission lines to distant cities and factories.

Answer 2

Electricity can be generated by a windmill. Basically, the wind spins these windmills and the windmill traps this energy used to spin the windmill and converts it into electricity. However there are many other ways to generate electricity such as using solar panels (trapping sunlight and converting it into electricity)

Answer 3

YES...

Wind can produce electricity by blowing the wind turbine.

When the wind blows harder, it produce more electricity.

Answer 4

no, its just moving air, but it can be converted to electricity by making the wind do work, or by moving something, like a windmill. then they store up the energy it got from the wind.

Answer 5

Yes, wind generates electricity all over the world.

Answer 6

Wind energy is the energy received from the movement of the wind across the Earth.

Answer 7

wind pushes against the blades of a wind turbine and turns them.

Answer 8

Yes. Wind is basically do to the sun and the rotating earth. Both of these are expected to continue almost forever, so new wind will continually be made, no matter how much we use.