Emily S's List: Wind Turbines

• which spins a low speed shaft with a gear at the end which is connected to  another smaller gear on a high speed shaft that runs through a generator  housing.

  • special shaped blades on slow speed shaft
    one end connects to a "gear"
    "gear1" connected to smaller "gear2"
    "gear2" connected to a fast shaft
    fast shaft runs through generator house
• • wind turbine basic how it works
    a little confusing
    
• magnetic rotor on the high speed shaft inside the generator housing spins  inside loops of copper wire that are wound around an iron core

  • high speed shaft w/magnectic rotor lives in generator
    that spins inside loops of copper wire
    copper wire is wound around iron core

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