A Wind Turbine Transfers Energy From. In this unit students will engage in the processes of science inquiry and engineering design to explore concepts related to wind energy and energy transfer. The blades are connected to a nacelle or housing which contains gears linked.
The rotor blades on a wind turbine catches the kinetic energy in the wind and transfers it via a rotor shaft to the generator. A wind turbine is a rotating machine that transfers kinetic energy from the wind into mechanical energy. Talk to us about our staffing solutions for the renewables sector.
9 the anemometer is a device that measures wind speeds.
In this unit students will engage in the processes of science inquiry and engineering design to explore concepts related to wind energy and energy transfer. A wind turbine is a machine for converting the kinetic energy in wind into mechanical energy. The wind turbines job is to capture that kinetic energy from the wind. In essence the wind turbine collects kinetic energy from the wind and transfers it to the generator.