Aermotorwindmill http://aermotorwindmill.com
Site for the Aermotor Windmill Company, Inc in San Angelo, Texas. This site provides different parts lists, diagrams, etc for the building of windmills, windmill components, towers, etc.
Wind Power for Nebraskans http://www.ianr.unl.edu/pubs/generalag/nf304.htm
An Introduction to Wind Power for Nebraskans, by David E. Stooksbury, Renewable Energy Specialist; Kenneth G. Hubbard, Extension Climate Resource Specialist. This site includes many mathematical equations concerning wind speed, power, etc. necessary for a person serious about building and placing a windmill.
WindPower http://www.windpower.dk/tour/design/
Wind Turbine Design: Basic Load Considerations. Whether you are building wind turbines or helicopters, you have to take the strength, the dynamic behavior, and the fatigue properties of your materials and the entire assembly into consideration. This site provides necessary information on extreme and fatigue loads and structural dynamics.
Britishwindenergy http://www.britishwindenergy.co.uk/you/byo.html
This fact sheet was prepared by Hugh Piggott, and is meant to answer some basic questions a person would have before attempting to build a windmill.
Small Wind Turbine Design Notes http://users.aber.ac.uk/iri/WIND/TECH/WPcourse/
The notes are a series of graphics file documents (GIFs) written in a logical order.
Turbine http://geoffegel.tripod.com/turbine.htm
Notes on a turbine inspired by Viktor Schauberger based on a simple vortex. Site includes written explanations, diagrams, and pictures to illustrate the turbine.
General Information on Windmills
http://www.eurorex.com/ugtoges/Glossary/windpage.htm
Contains a brief general history on the use and function of windmills, pumps, and generators, and the same brand of information concerning modern windmills and their function.
http://www.windpower.dk/faqs.htm
This site answers twenty-one frequently asked questions about wind energy. This page is also available in German, French, Spanish and Danish.
http://www.igc.org/awea/faq/
Frequently asked questions about wind energy technology, policy, development status, economics, and possible applications.
http://www.iclei.org/efacts/wind.htm
The Energy Facts Sheet, originally published by the Energy Educators of Ontario, 1993, provides information on wind energy, the wind as a resource, wind turbine technology, the environmental impacts of wind energy compared to the current environmental situation, and the future of wind power.
http://www.awea.org/pubs/inventory.html
Inventory of State Incentives for wind energy in the U.S., indexed by state and prepared by the American Wind Energy Association, available to anyone with Adobe Acrobat.
http://www.windpower.dk/tour/wres/siting.htm
This page gives advice on selecting a wind turbine location, including such things as wind direction and speed, soil conditions, grid connections and reinforcement, and some of the dangers in trusting modern meteorological information.
Sites on Existing Windmills
http://www.windmillworld.com/
Wide ranging look at all sorts of windmills throughout the world, but with particular emphasis on the UK. This site is illustrated with many photos.
http://servercc.oakton.edu/~wittman/mills/mills.htm
This site provides information on different English windmills, their history, design, and construction, and includes a bibliography, photographs, and links.
http://www.innotts.co.uk/greensmill/
A functioning windmill once owned by mathematician and physicist George Green (1793-1841). Hands-on science center open to the public explores milling and Green's contribution to science, and explains the workings and uses of grinding windmill.
Different Link Pages
http://www.ringsurf.com/netring?ring=roms;id=11;action=prev5
A webring dedicated to windmills, containing links to every site in the ring.
http://www.ringsurf.com/netring?ring=roms;id=11;action=next5
Another webring, dedicated to existing windmills.
http://www.windmillworld.com/links/verticalaxis.htm
Over thirty different links providing information on vertical axis windmills as opposed to standard windmills.
http://www.windmillworld.com/links/windpumps.htm
Wind pumps and American-style windmills . . . wind engines in the form of agricultural windmills, (often of metal construction), used for pumping water (and later generating electricity), appeared in the hundreds of thousands across the American landscape. . .
http://www.windpower.dk/links.htm
Links to other web sites on wind energy, including Danish wind turbine manufactures, rotor blade manufactures, major component and service suppliers, wind mill associations, wind energy research institutions, wind software companies, government institutions involving wind power, museums, and wind power magazines.
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