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wind energy

Term

Energy extracted from wind, traditionally in a windmill, but increasingly by more complicated designs including turbines, usually to produce electricity but also for water pumping. The power available from wind is proportional to the area swept by the rotating place and the cube of the wind velocity, but less than half the available power can be recovered.

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EEA Glossary

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Definition source publication

ETC/CDS. General Environmental Multilingual Thesaurus (GEMET 2000)

Publication year

2000

Definition source URL

http://glossary.eea.europa.eu/EEAGlossary

Organisation

ETC/CDS

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Subjects

ENERGY

Long definition

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