Solar Wind

Like old-fashioned windmills, today’s wind machines (called wind turbines) use blades to collect the wind’s kinetic energy. Wind turbines, are mounted on a tower to capture the most energy, at 100 feet (30 meters) or more aboveground, so they can take advantage of the faster and less turbulent wind. Turbines catch the wind's energy with their propeller-like blades. Usually, two or three blades are mounted on a shaft to form a rotor. The wind flows over the blades creating lift, like the effect on airplane wings, which causes them to turn. The blades are connected to a drive shaft that turns an electric generator to produce electricity.
Today, wind energy is mainly used to generate electricity. Wind turbines can be used as stand-alone applications, or they can be connected to a utility power grid or even combined with a photovoltaic (solar cell) system. For utility-scale sources of wind energy, a large number of wind turbines are usually built close together to form a wind plant. Several electricity providers today use wind plants to supply power to their customers.

R.R. Kling and Sons has begun researching this renewable resource. Come back and visit this site often, as we will be updating it as we become more familiar with this awesome technology.