Wind-energy harnessing: Global, national and local considerations

Applied Energy

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 103-179

  Price, Trevor ^a   Bunn, Jenny ^b   Probert, Doug ^a   Hales, Richard ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL/REGIONAL; WIND POWER;

ENERGY UTILIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; REGIONAL PLANNING;

ENERGY SUPPLY; QUALITY OF LIFE; WIND ENERGY HARNESSING;

WIND POWER;

EID: 0030153181     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0306-2619(95)00073-9     Document Type: Article

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