MACH 282 Episode 1

KALAMAZOO – The way to learn how to make things, is to make things. While much of education today focuses on philosophical and theoretical discussions, an experimental class at Kalamazoo Valley Community College has been focusing on the hands-on processes involved in manufacturing, from design to fabrication. From January to May, Kalamazoo Gazette photographer Mark Bugnaski documented the class as it went from design to installation of its innovative wind turbine on the KVCC’s Texas Township campus. Mach 282 — short for the Machine 282 class — was experimental not only in its unique structure, which allowed students to design and create a product in 13-week class, but also in its focus: wind turbines, which tie into the college’s innovative Wind Energy Technology certificate program to train workers to install, maintain and service wind turbines. Enlarge Scott Harmsen | Kalamazoo Gazette KVCC Mach 282 students shape fiberglass cloth into a mold as they prepare to cast stator copper coils in resin. Students in the class chose to build the electric generator rather than purchase one for the wind turbine. Kalamazoo Gazette / Mark Bugnaski KVCC Wind Turbine class gallery (12 photos) Howard Carpenter, a KVCC machine tool and material science faculty member, sees the class as one more piece in the network of alternative energy studies KVCC is opening to students. In addition to the wind energy program, the college’s heating and ventilation program offers classes on renewable

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WindyNation’s Windtura 500 Wind Turbine: Real World 12 Volt Power Curve

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Seismic Testing of Wind Turbines for Renewable Energy

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Home Wind Power – WindEnergy7

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Wind Power Detroit Airport

Wind turbines, or spires, outside the Detroit Metro Airport. The Detroit Metro Airport is using a total of six wind turbines as part of a pilot a program to generate its own electricity. The turbines debuted earlier this year on Earth Day 2010. If beta-testing goes well, further installations could occur at Detroit Metro Airport, as well as other sites with similar environments.

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FASTER BLADES FOR A WINDMAX WIND TURBINE GENERATOR

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Construction of Wind Turbine White Co Indiana

Wind Turbine Construction White County Indiana. Horizon Meadow Lake Farm.

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Nation to generate 30mw electric power using wind

Nation to generate 30mw electric power using wind

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Iowa Wind Power

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Hi-tech buoy to test ocean winds for turbines

A giant effort to go green… engineers are building a 100ft. tall buoy that will measure wind speed to help determine where to build offshore wind farms.

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Erik

Hi, I’m Erik Astrand and the man behind this site.

My story?
I am about to be 50 and all my life I have been interested in technical things. Not sure if the special interest for the wind, and how to use the wind, started when I as a 5 year old boy and got my first sail dinghy.

Anyway, wind power and to build my own wind generator was a dream for several years. I studied many websites and also bought many courses before I finally built my own windmill. This site is about that journey and you will also find some more general articles about wind power.

Enjoy! and check out the about me page to read more.