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Wind Power - Revised Edition

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Title: Wind Power Renewable Energy for Home, Farm, and Business
Author: Paul Gipe
ISBN: 1931498148

Wind energy today is a booming worldwide industry. The technology has truly come of age, with better, more reliable machinery and a greater understanding of how and where wind power makes sense--from the independent homestead to a grid-connected utility-wide perspective. Heightened concerns about our environment mean that this resurgence of interest in wind--a natural and widespread power source--is here to stay.

Wind Power is the completely revised and expanded edition of Paul Gipe’s definitive 1993 book, Wind Power for Home and Business. In addition to expanded sections on gauging wind resources and siting wind turbines, this edition includes new examples and case studies of successful wind systems, international sources for new and used equipment, and hundreds of color photographs and illustrations.

Wind Power is the most comprehensive, non-academic book on the subject of wind energy in English. Written for the layman, Wind Power contains sufficient scientific and engineering detail for beginning professionals as well. Gipe's new book includes chapters on how to evaluate modern wind turbine technology, how to install wind turbines safely, how to design a stand-alone power system for living off-the-grid, and how to use electricity-producing wind turbines to pump water in rural areas.

The extensive appendix includes easy to use tables for estimating the annual energy output of any wind turbine anywhere in the world, and lists manufacturers of wind turbines worldwide.

While the book maintains its focus on small and household-size wind turbines, the new version broadens its scope to include medium-size and large wind turbines, as well as wind farms.

About the author Paul Gipe has played a part in nearly every aspect of wind energy’s development since the mid-1970s--from installing small turbines to promoting wind energy worldwide.