Argentina Will Produce Massive Wind Power Turbines
Argentina will produce massive wind power turbines. This country of South America is using some of the biggest generators with de Eolis-15, that has 1,5 megawatts of power and almost 80 meters tall.
Río Negro and Neuquén, two of the southeast provinces in Argentina, along with the Science and Technology Department from Cutral-Có and Plaza Huincul-both municipalities with oil royalties- have joined each other to develop the wind turbine Eolis-15, designed by Invap to make the most of high speed winds.
This ambitious project is being financed by Rio Negro, who has already invested almost a million dollars in the project. Meanwhile Neuquén and the local municipalities will collaborate with money for the test and settings of prototypes until get the international homologation.
It will cost no less than 15 millions dollars and will take about three years to achieve. The final goal is to export wind energy, and some corporations are thinking to establish these turbines also in Chubut, Santa Cruz, and Tierra del Fuego. Since the demand for turbines around the word is high, it is a good opportunity for exportation. Nevertheless, it would be great for Argentina to count on these turbines to produce energy for its own territory.
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Image credit: INVAP
there are very few producers of these kind of turbines and GE is one of them. Furthermore, the more producers the cheaper they will become I heard that if the US filled the dessert with these they could easily power the whole us with no waste, and much cheaper than current means.
To the poster above. I may have read a similar article. If we put wind power in 1-2% of the worlds desert they would produce enough power for most of the industrialized world.
Does anyone know how these things are networked? I’ve always wanted to work on wind turbines they fascinate me this gives me a chance to use my Argentine citizenship.
Massive? O RLY?
Standard size of wind turbines over here in Germany is about 3 Megawatts now.. they’re working on a 6 MW plant. Biggest problem seems to be the length of the blades - cannot be transported on any road.. have to create two parts..
Once these things get installed, aside from maintenance, they just keep producing power, forever, like an oil well that never runs dry. Kinda unfair to the oil barons isn’t it!
The real downfall with wind power is that no power is produced when there is no wind. A lot of the time wind dies down towards the evening, just when demand is picking up with people coming home. So some storage system is needed.
There is also a problem with putting them all in one place, at least in a big country like the US. The power lost in the transmission lines is proportional to the length squared. Until we come up with a true room temperature superconductor.
Dan,
This is an engineering problem, as an engineer I can tell you that there is no perfect solution. Deploy, make do and improve.
Anyway, wind Power is all about, location, location, location. Like hydroelectric power, wind power should be well placed.
I can show you areas where the wind never stops, in fact trees branches have a tendency to point downwind.
Here is the deal with wind power: it is unpredictable, the machines are huge and unreliable, hard to maintain, one can put them only in places that are far from demand (losses during transportation) and there is no solution for lightning strikes that keep ruining the blades. (I was working for a wind developer for three years) The bottom line : it is not a solutions, but the marginal source at best.
15 millions dollars….lol
If there was a way to purchase these by individuals with a payment plan or gov’t assistance to make them affordable, I would definitely buy 1. We have an average breeze every day, all day of 8-12 mph. But then again, it’s a unique area.