Wind energy

What are the necessary considerations when siting land-based wind turbines?

Are there any sites in the area of your school that would be suitable for wind turbines?

Are there any conflicts of interest related to the siting of wind turbines, such as nature conservation, noise nuisance or a change to the view?

Look at the flash map of Samsø. Locate the wind turbines.
Click here to see the Flash map of Samsø's wind turbines.

See fact sheets on wind turbines on Samsø.
Click here to see fact sheets on wind turbines on Samsø.

Look at the page on the siting of wind turbines on the page Wind with Miller.
Click here to access the siting of wind turbines. 

Siting with windmaps on Google Earth

This is fun and easier than you might think. If you have installed Google Earth, you can download wind maps - provided by the ENVISAT satellite - as KMZ og KML files and open them in Google Earth.

On the Danish website Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy you can download wind maps of selected locations from the world and see wind data mapped onto the Google Earth globe.

• Download Google Earth
  Click here to download and install Google Earth.
  
  
  
• Download wind maps
  Click here to access wind maps for Google Earth from Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy.

Compare the wind maps with those of your region, if possible,  and, if applicable, those of the class you are cooperating with.

Where would you choose to site wind turbines in your region? Mark your proposed sitings on a map and use it to communicate and exchange information.

• Use for instance Google Earth’s placemarks. The image can be saved, shown on an interactive whiteboard and sent by e-mail.
  Click here to read about using Google Earth’s placemarks.
  
  

By clicking on the various wind turbines on the flash map from Samsø, you can see a description of them together with the energy transport locally and to the mainland.
Click here to access the Flashmap from Samsø Energy Academy.

Build a wind turbine

• On the page Wind with Miller, there is a detailed description of how wind turbines work. Try to build your own wind turbine based on the guidelines on the page.
  Click here to access Wind with Miller.
  
  
  
• Other building instructions are available from the British BERR’s science activity sheets (PDF file) page 9.
  Click here to read the science activity sheets PDF file from BERR.
  
  
  
• On the Canadian Renewable Energy Project Kit on wind energy  you will also find good background information on wind energy.
  Answer the pupil questions at the bottom of the page.
  Click here to access the Renewable Energy Project Kit.
  
  

Click here to see the photographs of Samsø’s land-based wind turbines.
http://picasaweb.google.dk/energiakademiet/Landvindmoeller

Click here to see the photographs of Samsø’s offshore wind turbines.
http://picasaweb.google.dk/energiakademiet/Havvindmoeller