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7 books on Wind Energy [PDF]
June 03, 2025 | 22 |
These books are covering wind energy technology, turbine design, energy storage, environmental impact, grid integration, offshore wind development, policy and economics.
1. Wind Energy
2016 by Kris Woll
In a world where the wind was previously content just to mess up hairstyles and scatter picnic napkins, a new hero emerges: the wind turbine. Wind Energy is not just a book—it’s a jaunty romp through the peculiar mechanics of turning invisible gusts into electric enlightenment. It jauntily leaps back in time to chart humanity’s ongoing love affair with breezy brilliance, before fast-forwarding to the latest in cutting-edge zephyr technology. Packed with enough infographics to delight even the most jaded graph enthusiast, a glossary to decode the windy jargon and an index that actually makes you feel smart, this book is your one-stop shop for all things blustery. It's a tale of energy, ingenuity and just a little bit of air, all wrapped up in a package that's as Common Core-compliant as it is gloriously geeky.
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2. Wind Energy: Renewable Energy and the Environment, Second Edition
2013 by Vaughn Nelson
In a universe increasingly baffled by its own insatiable appetite for energy and the inconveniently finite nature of fossil fuels, Wind Energy: Renewable Energy and the Environment, Second Edition arrives like a well-timed gust of enlightenment, propelling us into the dizzying world of wind power. Imagine a tale that begins in the 1970s—when bell-bottoms flapped and wind energy was but a peculiar hobby—and follows the rise of a renewable hero now powering everything from remote villages to city streets and even the occasional overly optimistic telecommunications tower. This book doesn’t just explain wind; it whispers its secrets: wind shear, turbulence, turbine designs and how to politely ask a gale where it’s going. Expanded with gripping new chapters on distributed energy, global warming (spoiler: it’s bad) and community wind projects (spoiler: they’re good), this edition unravels the mysteries of wind farms, grid connections and why regulatory compliance feels oddly like herding invisible sheep. If you’ve ever wondered about the lifespan of fossil fuels, how to tame a particularly feisty breeze, or whether wind can save us from our own silliness, this is the manual-slash-epic you didn’t know you needed. A must-read for anyone who finds themselves pondering windmills in the shower or dreaming of a future where energy comes with fewer strings and no pipelines attached.
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3. Wind Power for the World: The Rise of Modern Wind Energy
2013 by Preben Maegaard, Anna Krenz, Wolfgang Palz
"Wind Power for the World: The Rise of Modern Wind Energy" is a tale of gusts, gears and grandiose ambition, chronicling how humanity turned whirling blades into a €30 billion global juggernaut employing nearly a million people. Like a determined yet slightly eccentric inventor duct-taping the first windmill to their garden shed, the book unravels the absurdly epic saga of the humble wind turbine’s rise to modern glory—specifically, the sleek, three-bladed version that now stands like a majestic alien sentinel in fields and seas worldwide. Along the way, Danish masterminds, plucky engineers and visionary tinkerers collide with industrial chaos and improbably large weather forecasts, creating a narrative that’s less about volts and watts and more about how a planet decided to harness a breeze and call it progress.
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4. Wind Turbines: Fundamentals, Technologies, Application, Economics
2013 by Erich Hau
"Wind Turbines: Fundamentals, Technologies, Application, Economics" is less a book and more a sprawling, eccentric tour guide to the mad, whirling contraptions that somehow keep humanity both enlightened and financially perplexed. It tackles the improbable intersection of engineering, economics and Mother Nature’s windy moods with the kind of precision that suggests the author might secretly be a sentient turbine himself. Drawing on years spent cajoling massive metallic windmill-like entities into behaving (and occasionally failing spectacularly), Erich Hau dives into the mysteries of why wind insists on being simultaneously helpful and bothersome. The second edition boldly ventures where no turbine tome has gone before—offshore!—adding a shiny new chapter about doing battle with saltwater and seabirds. It’s all been thoroughly updated, expanded and polished to ensure that anyone professionally tangled with wind turbines, from starry-eyed designers to weary economic forecasters, has no excuse to remain unenlightened about the most sensible use of atmospheric chaos since someone thought kites were a good idea.
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5. Wind Energy Explained: Theory, Design and Application
2010 by James F. Manwell, Jon G. McGowan, Anthony L. Rogers
"Wind Energy Explained: Theory, Design and Application" is the sort of book that might accidentally save the planet if you’re not careful. Brimming with updated diagrams, equations and enough aerodynamics to make even the windiest of days feel under-researched, it tackles everything from the surprisingly finicky physics of wind turbine blades to the dizzying possibilities of offshore wind farms. It even manages to sneak in a brand-new appendix on data processing, which is presumably for the kind of people who think spreadsheets are an art form. Whether you’re an engineering student desperate to solve those fifty extra homework problems or a practicing engineer still wondering what a wind turbine actually does apart from spinning majestically, this book is a comprehensive guide to harnessing the natural mood swings of the atmosphere. One might almost expect it to come with a free gust of wind, just to prove a point.
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6. Wind Power: Renewable Energy for Home, Farm, and Business
2004 by Paul Gipe
Imagine, if you will, a slightly befuddled but astonishingly dedicated guide leading you through the swirling, gusty chaos of wind energy—a realm where turbines pirouette like bemused giants and the fate of renewable energy hangs by a slender thread of sensible physics. Paul Gipe's Wind Power is exactly that guide, revised and updated to make even the grumpiest homeowner or most skeptical farmer consider harnessing the gale in their backyard. With the breezy wisdom of someone who has spent decades both cheering for and grumbling at the wind industry, Gipe blends facts, figures and a pinch of whimsy to tackle the very big question of how to turn something invisible and unpredictable into something that pays your bills. Packed with enough charts and appendices to make your accountant weep with joy, this book not only tells you how to ride the winds of renewable energy but also why you absolutely should, unless of course you prefer to remain chained to fossil fuels and questionable life choices. In short, it's a rollicking whirlwind of a resource for anyone ready to tilt at windmills with far better odds than Don Quixote ever had.
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7. Wind Energy Handbook
2001 by Tony Burton, David Sharpe, Nick Jenkins, Ervin Bossanyi
In a universe where clean energy is no longer just a wishful notion but an urgent necessity, The Wind Energy Handbook arrives like a particularly well-timed gust of wind, whisking you through the wild, whirling world of renewable power generation. Authored by four brilliant minds who clearly spend their weekends debating aerodynamic minutiae over tea, this compendium explains everything you never knew you desperately needed to understand about wind energy. From the lofty elegance of horizontal axis turbines slicing through turbulent gales to the stubborn practicalities of keeping these mechanical marvels glued to Earth without scaring off the local wildlife—or the grid operators—this book covers it all. It ponders the mysteries of wind speed distributions, unravels the art of situating a wind farm without ruining anyone's day and even flirts with the existential quandaries of power quality and system stability. Whether you’re an engineer, a turbine tinkerer, a consultant, or simply a graduate student wondering what you’ve gotten yourself into, this is your guide to harnessing the wind’s capricious temperament and transforming it into something surprisingly useful—electricity. Also, turbulence. Lots of turbulence.
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1. Wind Energy
2016 by Kris Woll
In a world where the wind was previously content just to mess up hairstyles and scatter picnic napkins, a new hero emerges: the wind turbine. Wind Energy is not just a book—it’s a jaunty romp through the peculiar mechanics of turning invisible gusts into electric enlightenment. It jauntily leaps back in time to chart humanity’s ongoing love affair with breezy brilliance, before fast-forwarding to the latest in cutting-edge zephyr technology. Packed with enough infographics to delight even the most jaded graph enthusiast, a glossary to decode the windy jargon and an index that actually makes you feel smart, this book is your one-stop shop for all things blustery. It's a tale of energy, ingenuity and just a little bit of air, all wrapped up in a package that's as Common Core-compliant as it is gloriously geeky.
Download PDF
2. Wind Energy: Renewable Energy and the Environment, Second Edition
2013 by Vaughn Nelson
In a universe increasingly baffled by its own insatiable appetite for energy and the inconveniently finite nature of fossil fuels, Wind Energy: Renewable Energy and the Environment, Second Edition arrives like a well-timed gust of enlightenment, propelling us into the dizzying world of wind power. Imagine a tale that begins in the 1970s—when bell-bottoms flapped and wind energy was but a peculiar hobby—and follows the rise of a renewable hero now powering everything from remote villages to city streets and even the occasional overly optimistic telecommunications tower. This book doesn’t just explain wind; it whispers its secrets: wind shear, turbulence, turbine designs and how to politely ask a gale where it’s going. Expanded with gripping new chapters on distributed energy, global warming (spoiler: it’s bad) and community wind projects (spoiler: they’re good), this edition unravels the mysteries of wind farms, grid connections and why regulatory compliance feels oddly like herding invisible sheep. If you’ve ever wondered about the lifespan of fossil fuels, how to tame a particularly feisty breeze, or whether wind can save us from our own silliness, this is the manual-slash-epic you didn’t know you needed. A must-read for anyone who finds themselves pondering windmills in the shower or dreaming of a future where energy comes with fewer strings and no pipelines attached.
Download PDF
3. Wind Power for the World: The Rise of Modern Wind Energy
2013 by Preben Maegaard, Anna Krenz, Wolfgang Palz
"Wind Power for the World: The Rise of Modern Wind Energy" is a tale of gusts, gears and grandiose ambition, chronicling how humanity turned whirling blades into a €30 billion global juggernaut employing nearly a million people. Like a determined yet slightly eccentric inventor duct-taping the first windmill to their garden shed, the book unravels the absurdly epic saga of the humble wind turbine’s rise to modern glory—specifically, the sleek, three-bladed version that now stands like a majestic alien sentinel in fields and seas worldwide. Along the way, Danish masterminds, plucky engineers and visionary tinkerers collide with industrial chaos and improbably large weather forecasts, creating a narrative that’s less about volts and watts and more about how a planet decided to harness a breeze and call it progress.
Download PDF
4. Wind Turbines: Fundamentals, Technologies, Application, Economics
2013 by Erich Hau
"Wind Turbines: Fundamentals, Technologies, Application, Economics" is less a book and more a sprawling, eccentric tour guide to the mad, whirling contraptions that somehow keep humanity both enlightened and financially perplexed. It tackles the improbable intersection of engineering, economics and Mother Nature’s windy moods with the kind of precision that suggests the author might secretly be a sentient turbine himself. Drawing on years spent cajoling massive metallic windmill-like entities into behaving (and occasionally failing spectacularly), Erich Hau dives into the mysteries of why wind insists on being simultaneously helpful and bothersome. The second edition boldly ventures where no turbine tome has gone before—offshore!—adding a shiny new chapter about doing battle with saltwater and seabirds. It’s all been thoroughly updated, expanded and polished to ensure that anyone professionally tangled with wind turbines, from starry-eyed designers to weary economic forecasters, has no excuse to remain unenlightened about the most sensible use of atmospheric chaos since someone thought kites were a good idea.
Download PDF
5. Wind Energy Explained: Theory, Design and Application
2010 by James F. Manwell, Jon G. McGowan, Anthony L. Rogers
"Wind Energy Explained: Theory, Design and Application" is the sort of book that might accidentally save the planet if you’re not careful. Brimming with updated diagrams, equations and enough aerodynamics to make even the windiest of days feel under-researched, it tackles everything from the surprisingly finicky physics of wind turbine blades to the dizzying possibilities of offshore wind farms. It even manages to sneak in a brand-new appendix on data processing, which is presumably for the kind of people who think spreadsheets are an art form. Whether you’re an engineering student desperate to solve those fifty extra homework problems or a practicing engineer still wondering what a wind turbine actually does apart from spinning majestically, this book is a comprehensive guide to harnessing the natural mood swings of the atmosphere. One might almost expect it to come with a free gust of wind, just to prove a point.
Download PDF
6. Wind Power: Renewable Energy for Home, Farm, and Business
2004 by Paul Gipe
Imagine, if you will, a slightly befuddled but astonishingly dedicated guide leading you through the swirling, gusty chaos of wind energy—a realm where turbines pirouette like bemused giants and the fate of renewable energy hangs by a slender thread of sensible physics. Paul Gipe's Wind Power is exactly that guide, revised and updated to make even the grumpiest homeowner or most skeptical farmer consider harnessing the gale in their backyard. With the breezy wisdom of someone who has spent decades both cheering for and grumbling at the wind industry, Gipe blends facts, figures and a pinch of whimsy to tackle the very big question of how to turn something invisible and unpredictable into something that pays your bills. Packed with enough charts and appendices to make your accountant weep with joy, this book not only tells you how to ride the winds of renewable energy but also why you absolutely should, unless of course you prefer to remain chained to fossil fuels and questionable life choices. In short, it's a rollicking whirlwind of a resource for anyone ready to tilt at windmills with far better odds than Don Quixote ever had.
Download PDF
7. Wind Energy Handbook
2001 by Tony Burton, David Sharpe, Nick Jenkins, Ervin Bossanyi
In a universe where clean energy is no longer just a wishful notion but an urgent necessity, The Wind Energy Handbook arrives like a particularly well-timed gust of wind, whisking you through the wild, whirling world of renewable power generation. Authored by four brilliant minds who clearly spend their weekends debating aerodynamic minutiae over tea, this compendium explains everything you never knew you desperately needed to understand about wind energy. From the lofty elegance of horizontal axis turbines slicing through turbulent gales to the stubborn practicalities of keeping these mechanical marvels glued to Earth without scaring off the local wildlife—or the grid operators—this book covers it all. It ponders the mysteries of wind speed distributions, unravels the art of situating a wind farm without ruining anyone's day and even flirts with the existential quandaries of power quality and system stability. Whether you’re an engineer, a turbine tinkerer, a consultant, or simply a graduate student wondering what you’ve gotten yourself into, this is your guide to harnessing the wind’s capricious temperament and transforming it into something surprisingly useful—electricity. Also, turbulence. Lots of turbulence.
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How to download PDF:
1. Install Google Books Downloader
2. Enter Book ID to the search box and press Enter
3. Click "Download Book" icon and select PDF*
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