High-altitude wind power generation

IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 168-180

  Fagiano, Lorenzo ^a   Milanese, Mario ^a   Piga, Dario ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

High altitude wind energy; Wind energy; Wind power generation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC FLIGHT; COMPETITIVE COSTS; FOSSIL SOURCES; HIGH ALTITUDE; INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY; KEYPOINTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PROTOTYPE EXPERIMENT; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; TORINO , ITALY; WIND BLOWING; WIND DATA; WIND ENERGY;

AIRFOILS; COMPUTER CRIME; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION;

WIND POWER;

EID: 77950691493     PISSN: 08858969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEC.2009.2032582     Document Type: Article

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