Introduction to offshore wind part 2

This is part 2 of a (now planned) 5 part series on wind power in general and offshore wind farms in particular. In this section we go into some detail about the wind turbine generator itself.

Contents:
00:29 Contents
03:17 Recap of part 1
05:48 The Betz Limit
11:28 Types of turbine
17:38 Why are turbines getting bigger?
26:10 Main components
30:14 Stages of conversion
33:36 Mechanical layouts
41:40 Generator types
45:45 Rectification and Inversion
49:32 Power conditioning (DFIG)
55:12 Power conditioning (Back to back)
58:15 Summary of part 2

Engineering with Rosie makes some good videos on Betz limit and other things:

https://www.youtube.com/c/EngineeringwithRosie

Some links to global climate change information:

https://skepticalscience.com/argument...
https://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-c...

Potholer54s excellent site
https://www.youtube.com/c/potholer54/...

Thanks for watching!

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