Related Links
POWER CONVERTERS
Animation of 3-phase rectifier:
http://www.powerdesigners.com/InfoWeb/resources/pe_html/ch05s1/simulation.html
SOLAR POWER
Types of solar energy:
http://home.clara.net/darvill/altenerg/solar.htm
Wikipedia on Solar Power:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power
Basic operation of a solar cell:
http://www.solarbotics.net/starting/200202_solar_cells/200202_solar_cell_physics.html
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~solar/intro/tech6.htm
WIND POWER
Small Wind Turbine Basics part 1 and 2, by Dan Fink,
From the Energy Self Sufficiency Newsletter, July and Aug. 2005:
http://www.otherpower.com/windbasics1.html
http://www.otherpower.com/windbasics2.html
Wind chimes in, by David Marsh for EDN,
on Cp (coefficient of performance), turbine cube law, generators, power electronics:
http://www.ednasia.com/article.asp?articleid=1697
Perfect Turbine Performance! by Mike Klemen, nice tables e.g. kWhr vs. speed,
on meaning of Cp (really nCp where n=efficiency) and capability of a good generator+turbine:
http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndsu/klemen/Perfect_Turbine.htm
Wind Turbine from Wikipedia,
includes nice info like good TSR etc:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_turbine
Canadian Wind Atlas Home page:
An excellent government of Canada sponsored site giving cross-country wind data.
http://www.windatlas.ca/en/index.php
Canadian Wind Energy Association:
http://www.canwea.ca/canadian_wind_farms.cfm
American Wind Energy Association:
http://www.awea.org/
NREL/AWEA Wind Atlas info.
This web site is table of American 7 wind classes (SI based W/m^2):
http://rredc.nrel.gov/wind/pubs/atlas/tables/1-1T.html
Danish Wind Industry Association
Beautifully organized info on wind electricity, e.g. Betz Law:
http://www.windpower.org/en/tour/wres/betz.htm