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

Spinetic Energy Ltd正在对风能收集技术进行彻底的重新设计，创建一种配电盘、模块化、可链接的系统，其设计与太阳能光伏一样可安装，成本效益高。Spinetic的“风能板”将可以在社区范围内部署，而无需使用起重机或其他重型设备。风能板模块化、便于现场人员携带、无需专业人员即可安装，是在偏远/发展中国家部署时提供低成本可再生能源的理想选择。风电板的设计本质上适合大规模生产，但其许多生产过程原则上也适用于使用相对低技能的劳动力进行手工生产，并且不需要重工业或大功率设备。这使得风能板可以在偏远/发展中国家的地点现场制造，使用当地来源的材料，从而显著减少嵌入的能源，并提供当地就业和维修/维护能力。该项目将研究设计风板部件和制造工艺的可行性，这些部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、维护和报废后的返工，以用于其他用途，例如在住房/灌溉项目中。

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.