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windshare wind turbine, toronto

The WindShare/Toronto Hydro wind turbine at the CNE.

This is very old. It's kept for mostly historical reasons.

Concentrating on community-based power in Ontario. Very, very preliminary at the moment.

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Books

Paul Gipe has written some of the best books on the subject. My favourite book of his is Wind Energy Comes Of Age (John Wiley & Sons, Inc, New York, 1995. ISBN: 0-471-10924-X). It gives a good overview of the technology, and a rare look into the impact on society of wind energy.

The Renewable Energy Handbook for Homeowners, by Bill Kemp. Good book by a local author.

If you just want the heavy theory, the Wind Energy Handbook (Burton, Sharpe, Jenkins & Bossanyi. pub John Wiley & Sons, 2001. ISBN: 0-471-48997-2) has everything you need. Based on the famous Loughborough Wind Energy Course (formerly at Imperial College, London, where I took it), it's absurdly complete.

The Assessment and Rating of Noise from Wind Farms (ETSU-R-97) (PDF) — this is the grand-daddy of wind energy noise documents. Though rather old, and not without its faults (mostly to do with its age), ETSU-R-97 has stood up to more than a decade of intense scrutiny. As there didn't seem to be a searchable copy on the web, I compiled this from the fragments on the DTI website, and then ran it through Acrobat's OCR module. The OCR should be accurate enough for search engines to find relevant citations; please don't rely on this text as gospel.