{"id":12427,"date":"2017-12-04t10:05:22","date_gmt":"2017-12-04t10:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dpetrov.2create.studio\/planet\/wordpress\/how-self-repairing-turbines-could-change-wind-energy\/"},"modified":"2017-12-04t10:05:22","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04t10:05:22","slug":"self-repairing-turbines-wind-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/story\/self-repairing-turbines-wind-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"how self-repairing turbines could change wind energy"},"content":{"rendered":"
self-repairing wind turbines could forever alter the economy of energy. however, it needs the funding to get there. <\/p>\n
while a report<\/a> from the national renewable energy laboratory (nrel) shows wind energy is on the rise in the united states, proposed cuts to the department of energy budget cuts could deal a significant blow.<\/p>\n the global wind energy council released a global wind statistics report<\/a> in april 2016 for wind energy by country in 2015. the report ranked the united states second in wind energy at 74,471 megawatts \u2014 behind only china. however, pushback from the house of representatives under the trump administration could cause the united states to lose that prestigious place.<\/p>\n thus far, attempts to undermine the budget of the department of energy have proved unsuccessful. according to a science magazine article<\/a>, the house of representatives under the trump administration proposed on june 27, 2017, for the 2018 budget starting on oct. 1 to eliminate the advanced research projects agency energy (arpa-e). the proposed budget did not go through, due to a lack of support from the senate. sen. lamar alexander (r.-tenn.), who lead the senate committee on appropriations that issued the fiscal year 2018 budget, according to a science magazine article<\/a>, stood up to this to say \u201cthis is not what we are going to do.\u201d<\/p>\n in a bipartisan effort, the gop-controlled senate fought back against the budget the house proposed in june with a bill on july 18 to actually increase basic research funding of the arpa-e by 8%. arpa-e projects<\/a> include the metacapacitors for led lighting at the city university of new york (cuny) energy institute and temperature-regulated batteries at the oak ridge national laboratory (ornl) in tennessee.<\/p>\n \u201c…that is not what we are going to do.\u201d<\/p>\n while the senate has pushed back against cuts that could threaten clean energy innovation this past july, wind energy has a long way to go. the wind energy sphere is a \u201cmaterial intensive industry,\u201d according to dr. stephen hsu of george washington university\u2019s department of mechanical & aerospace engineering.<\/p>\n wind turbines present an issue of cost effectiveness to repair. hsu explained that, in simple terms, it\u2019s not exactly appealing to need to fix turbines with propellers 200 to 300 feet in the air.<\/p>\n this means, according to hsu, one of the biggest deterrents for a business to purchase wind turbines is damage caused by the external environment.<\/p>\n
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