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1) What you really have to worry about is the maintenance staff, people are in, on and around wind turbines all the time. If you are not able to maintain them d
by startupfounder 14y ago
1) What you really have to worry about is the maintenance staff, people are in, on and around wind turbines all the time. If you are not able to maintain them due to the dager of ice buildup then the longevity of the turbines decrease.
2) It is kind of funny, but on all of the wind turbines I have been on, for complex reasons I will not get into here, don't use any of the energy they produce. They pull power from the grid to run internal computers and lighting.
- jessaustin 14y agoOne challenge I would expect is the difficulty of running current from the (relatively) stationary generator (or the grid if the generator's power isn't suitable) to the rotating blades. You can't just use a wire; it would get wound around until it broke. Presumably there could be some sort of slip ring, or perhaps an inductive circuit like that found in Reelights. Of course the engineers have already solved the similar problem of running power to and from the hub that must rotate to face the wind, but that rotation is much slower than that of the rotating blades.