Aaron Thomas
ST370
08/17/2021
Day 1 Proposal on a hot air balloon wind powered turbine for the town
Why would switching to wind power be a good thing?
Now before we get into the benefits of wind power, what are more common ways that people generate
electricity. The list includes fossil fuels, nuclear power, biomass and geothermal. These types of power
plants go about it differently and all have various pros and cons about them. But their basic principle is
the same, they heat water via their own methods to make it steam to spin a turbine. Now wind power
turbines are different in the sense that they can be a spun through with our very own atmosphere.
Meaning there is no additional materials that are needed after a wind turbine is built. This is a different
with other methods as they constantly require fuel to keep the steam going to spin the turbine. This is
good for two reasons, one, it is cost effective. Once a wind turbine is built, it is there generating
electricity to the end with little maintenance. Two, it is environmentally safe. Methods such as fossils
fuels and nuclear power have dangerous byproducts, such as carbon monoxide and used nuclear rods
which can be detrimental to an environment. Wind turbine, have no byproduct as it has no fuel to
create such byproducts. Therefore, it is safer to the environment.
Where should you put this turbine
Now the tethers would be in two places: zone 7 and zone 8. I choose these two zones because a, it
doesn’t say anything of about putting two tethers in one zone. b, this is what I think would best balance
the social and financial base costs for the turbine. The tethers have a balanced left and right forces with
left and right tethers to balance the horizontal motion of the balloon. The left and middle tethers
balance out the forward and backward motions of the balloon
The there are two costs to building this
Financial: 7,000 + 55000 = $62000
This whole project would cost 62000 dollars
Social
4 + 0 = +4
This would give a social boast of =4 social