Wind turbine | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-02

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_turbine


00:01:08 1 History
00:06:00 2 Resources
00:06:40 3 Efficiency
00:10:28 4 Types
00:10:51 4.1 Horizontal axis
00:13:34 4.2 Vertical axis
00:15:26 4.2.1 Darrieus wind turbine
00:16:18 4.2.2 Giromill
00:16:56 4.2.3 Savonius wind turbine
00:17:34 4.2.4 Parallel
00:18:00 4.3 Unconventional types
00:18:09 5 Design and construction
00:18:30 5.1 Components
00:20:16 5.2 Turbine monitoring and diagnostics
00:21:07 6 Materials and recent developments
00:21:50 6.1 New designs
00:23:37 6.2 Materials for blades
00:23:53 6.2.1 Glass and carbon fibers
00:24:42 6.2.2 Hybrid reinforcements
00:25:29 6.2.3 Nano-engineered polymers and composites
00:26:08 6.3 Costs
00:26:52 6.4 Other materials
00:28:06 6.5 Recycling
00:28:55 6.6 Supply
00:33:59 7 Wind turbines on public display
00:34:36 8 Small wind turbines
00:35:56 9 Wind turbine spacing
00:37:00 10 Operability
00:37:09 10.1 Maintenance
00:37:52 10.2 Repowering
00:38:16 10.3 Demolition
00:38:44 11 Comparison with fossil-fuel turbines
00:38:55 11.1 Advantages
00:40:03 11.2 Disadvantages
00:42:16 12 Records



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A wind turbine, or alternatively referred to as a wind energy converter, is a device that converts the wind's kinetic energy into electrical energy.
Wind turbines are manufactured  in a wide range of vertical and horizontal axis. The smallest turbines are used for applications such as battery charging for auxiliary power for boats or caravans or to power traffic warning signs. Larger turbines can be used for making contributions to a domestic power supply while selling unused power back to the utility supplier via the electrical grid. Arrays of large turbines, known as wind farms, are becoming an increasingly important source of intermittent  renewable energy and are used by many countries as part of a strategy to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels. One assessment claimed that, as of 2009, wind had the "lowest relative greenhouse gas emissions, the least water consumption demands and... the most favourable social impacts" compared to photovoltaic, hydro, geothermal, coal and gas.