Wind turbine: wind to motion to electricity

Also called

wind turbine · windmill generator · wind energy · wind power · पवन चक्की · पवन ऊर्जा · energy transfer · energy conversion · generator · renewable energy

Topics

• Moving air (wind) has energy because it is moving
• Wind pushes on the blades and turns the rotor: wind energy becomes energy of motion
• The rotor turns a shaft that spins magnets inside a generator
• A generator changes motion energy into electrical energy, which flows along wires to a lamp
• Stronger wind turns the rotor faster and the lamp glows brighter; no wind means no electricity
• A turbine converts energy; it does not create energy from nothing
• At every step some energy is lost as heat and sound, so less reaches the lamp than the wind brought

About this model

A GLB file of about 1207 KB, shown in Lably's 3D viewer and, on a phone, placed in your room with AR. Credit: Tower and blades from "Wind Turbine" by Zelta (https://opengameart.org/content/wind-turbine-blender), CC0 1.0, separated, rescaled and smoothed. Hub, nacelle cutaway, shaft, generator, cable, lamp, wind and energy markers, energy strip and animation made for Lably. | CC0 1.0 source model (Wind Turbine by Zelta, OpenGameArt) plus original geometry and animation made for Lably. No share-alike assets are included.

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