Feasibility of modular wind turbine micro-factories for remote & developing world sites

Spinetic Energy Ltd正在对风力收集技术进行彻底的重新设计，创建一个面板化，模块化，可扩展的系统，旨在与太阳能光伏一样可安装和具有成本效益。Spinetic的“风力面板”将在社区范围内部署，而无需使用起重机或其他重型设备。模块化，现场便携式，无需专业劳动力即可安装，Wind Panel是在远程/发展中国家部署提供低成本可再生能源的理想选择。风板设计本身就适合大规模生产，但其许多生产工艺原则上也适用于使用相对低技能劳动力的手工生产，并且没有重型工业或高功率设备。这可以使风力发电板在偏远/发展中国家的地点现场制造，使用当地来源的材料，从而大大减少嵌入式能源，并提供当地就业和维修/维护能力。该项目将研究设计风板组件和制造工艺的可行性，这些组件和制造工艺适用于生产模块化、集装箱化的“微型工厂”，用于风板的建造、维护和其他用途的报废再加工，例如住房/灌溉项目。

Spinetic Energy Ltd is undertaking a radical re-engineering of wind harvesting technology, creating a panellised, modular, linkable system, designed to be as installable and cost effective as solar PV. Spinetic's "Wind Panels" will be deployable at community scale without use of cranes or other heavy equipment. Being modular, human-portable on site, and installable without specialist labour, Wind Panels are ideal for providing low cost renewable power at remote/developing world deployments. The Wind Panel design is inherently suitable for mass-production, but many of its production processes are, in principle, also amenable to manual production using relatively low-skilled labour, and without heavy industrial or high power equipment. This could make Wind Panels manufacturable on-site in remote/developing world locations, using locally sourced materials, thus significantly reducing embedded energy, and providing local employment and repair/maintenance capability. This project will examine the feasibility of designing Wind Panel components and manufacturing processes suitable for production of modular, containerised "micro-factories" for Wind Panel construction, maintenance and end-of-life re-working for other uses, e.g. in housing/irrigation projects.