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The following picture shows the minimum power of the solar The torque developed by a wind turbine can be expressed as Based on both the price and the environmental impact,
ABSTRACT energy system that is needed to support our chosen
The effects of global warming have been causing irreversible it is much more effective to install a combination of
household with different percentage of electric usage. (4)
damage to the Earth over the past decades. One way we can solar and wind power instead of staying with our
reduce our individual impact on the environment is to focus current system. This may not be the most effective
on the production and consumption of eco-friendly sources Whereis the output power, is the torque developed by wind system for every house, but it does work for this
of electricity such as solar, wind, or bioelectric energy. Based turbine, Cp is the power coefficient, is the tip speed ratio, and specific residence. If more resources were used to
on the current available and suitable energy options, we is the air density in kg/m3. A is the frontal area of wind turbine improve the effectiveness of different forms of clean
have proposed to modify a house from Northern Wisconsin and V is the wind speed. The standard power of each wind
by using a hybrid system including solar energy and wind energy, the amount of carbon emissions would be
turbine is 0.4KW when the wind speed is 12.5 m/s (Phil Taylor-
turbine energy to replace the traditional power grid. Based greatly reduced.
Parker, 2018). Thus, the relationship between power and time
on the sunlight-time, wind speed in Northern Wisconsin, we
have projected the immediate and long-term fiscal and is,
As more research goes into alternate energy sources,
environmental impacts. From the cost-benefit analysis this may or may not remain constant. If more clean
mathematical model, we have found that the best hybrid (5)
option is a combination of 95% solar power and 5% wind energy sources are explored, we may discover that
energy, which would save about $43,000 over the next 30 another way of generating power is better- either
Finally, we have the amount of electricity generated in the
years. geothermal, hydropower, or biogas. With the resources
whole year is
available now, solar and wind is most effective, but we
(6)
INTRODUCTION believe the future will surpass our current knowledge.
Figure1 Power of solar energy needed based on the percentage of the
total consumption of energy
Within the past century, the global temperature has
increased by 1.33 Fahrenheit (0.74 Celsius degree) (NASA, Based on the above solar power amount analysis, we have RESULTS
2018). The effects of global warming have been devastating calculated the total cost of installing solar panels and
these days. To minimize the damage of climate change, our We see that there is a huge cost increase when the energy
inverters as the following picture.
research team focus on studying the feasibility, immediate from solar power usage increases from 90% to 100%.
and long-term fiscal and environmental impacts of using the Therefore, we proposed to use the wind power system to
renewable energy to replace a traditional grid to power a generate the rest 10% energy for the chosen household. We
house located in the Northern Wisconsin. combine two systems and get the chart of the total cost of
energy system when 90%~100% of electricity is provided by
solar power.
METHODS
30-year Electric Bill Estimation
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