Where do i find research on wind?
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I recommend wikipedia.org, and make sure you check out all its external links.
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Ok here ya go!\n\n In 2005, worldwide capacity of wind-powered generators was 58,982 MW, their production making up less than 1% of world-wide electricity use. Although still a relatively minor source of electricity for most countries, wind power generation more than quadrupled between 1999 and 2005.\n\nMost modern wind power is generated in the form of electricity by converting the rotation of turbine blades into electrical current by means of an electrical generator. In windmills (a much older technology) wind energy is used to turn mechanical machinery to do physical work, like crushing grain or pumping water.\n\nWind power is used in large scale wind farms for national electrical grids as well as in small individual turbines for providing electricity in isolated locations.\n\nWind energy is abundant, inexhaustible, widely distributed, clean, and mitigates the greenhouse effect.\n\nAn estimated 1 to 3 % of energy from the Sun that hits the earth is converted into wind energy. This is about 50 to 100 times more energy than is converted into biomass by all the plants on earth through photosynthesis. Most of this wind energy can be found at high altitudes where continuous wind speeds of over 160 km/h (100 mph) occur. Eventually, the wind energy is converted through friction into diffuse heat all through the earth's surface and atmosphere.\n\nThe origin of wind is simple. The earth is unevenly heated by the sun resulting in the poles receiving less energy from the sun than the equator does. Also the dry land heats up (and cools down) more quickly than the seas do. The differential heating powers a global atmospheric convection system reaching from the earth's surface to the stratosphere which acts as a virtual ceiling.\n\nThe change of seasons, change of day and night, the Coriolis effect, the irregular albedo (reflectivity) of land and water, humidity, and the friction of wind over different terrain are some of the factors which complicate the flow of wind over the surface.
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i have no clue, not sure what this competition would be anyways, might want to include the goal of what the windmil will do, what size is it going to be...\n\ni'd say research with like those windmill powerplants, they are shaped like HUGE propellers i think, i'm sure that would provide alot of torque and be efficent.\n\nthe companies making those windmill powerplants put LOTS of money into research to figure out how they can have their designs make the most electricy, so researching what they have found would probably help your project
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Oregon Scientific makes a good one:\nhttp://www.ambientweather.com/wmorscwiprwe.html\n\nYou can look at some alternates there too.
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Santa Ana Winds:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Ana_wind
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To check direction of the WIND ?
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http://www.howstuffworks.com\nThey may have a link.\nThey did for building a wind powered generator.
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Long long ago there was Terraserver.\nhttp://terraserver.microsoft.com/\n\nThere is also NASA's World Wind:\nhttp://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/
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Download World Wind 1.3 from www.nasa.gov
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A good site to get data is :\nhttp://www.cleanairworld.org/
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http://www.safety.com/weather-and-disaster/articles.html\n\nhttp://www.sciencemag.org/sciext/katrina/
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The best place would be to contact the National Weather Service for the area you are studying.  They should have data on all weather patterns collected from weather stations all around the country.  Some weather stations have only local data.  \nYou could also check the weather almanac for the specific year you would like to research.  You can usually find precip totals for every year that records have been kept.
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Start with the Georgia State Climate office. \nhttp://climate.engr.uga.edu/\nThis office has all kinds of links that goes way beyond the "weather"\nI have worked with both Stokesbury and Knox, they are top flight people and will help you in anyway they can. The TV weather people don't do that.
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Best damn site period.  I use it all the time.\n\n\nhttp://www.advancedphysics.org/
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Weather records can be found on  NOAA's National Weather Service's website. http://www.nws.noaa.gov/ \nYou'll have to do some searching to find them.  There is a link on the left hand side of the webpage under Climate for Past Weather.  A better choice would be the National Climatic Data Center: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html.
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There are so many online resources for this, why would you ask here?\n\nFind these sites or ask at your library about: National Weather Service; National Hurricane Tracking Center; www.weather.com.
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www.weather.com\n\nif u have interest in weather u can find more at http://www.weather-forums.com/