Wind
Uneven heating of the Earth’s Surface is the principal cause of this weather phenomenon
What is the Wind?
This Backyardigans character rocked the coolest hat
Who is Pablo?
The name of a group of wind turbines
What is a Wind Farm?
The number of blades on a traditional Wind Turbine
What is 3?
The club that last year's CWC team founded
The CU Wind Energy Club
This device measures wind speed using several rotating cups attached to a spinning wheel
What is an anemometer?
In 1996, student hackers at this well-renowned East Coast engineering school placed a giant propeller hat on the Great Dome as a prank
What is MIT
The name for a wind farm that is located in the water
What is an offshore wind farm?
This is the average lifetime of a wind turbine.
What is 25?
The CU Wind Team created this Podcast as a part of their Connections Creations category.
What is Get Blown Away?
An area characterized by high turbulence and lower wind speeds
What is a wake?
The propeller hats were first marketed by this toy company in 1951
Who is Mattel
The country with the largest wind farm
What is China?
The acronym is HAWTs
What is a horizontal axis wind turbine?
This conference is hosting the Collegiate Wind Competition this year, titled “the renewable energy industry’s premier event”, with industry and policy leaders also in attendance
What is the CLEANPOWER Conference?
The country with the highest wind speed ever recorded
What is Australia?
The nickname given to propeller hats from the company Google
What is a Noogle?
This phenomenon is often described as large chunks of ice falling from the sky at high velocities from wind turbines
What is ice throw?
PID is the acronym for this style of continuous modulation feedback control
What is Proportional Integral Derivative Control?
Jennifer Granholm is the secretary of this executive branch department that also manages NREL and helps with the CWC
What is the Department of Energy
This wind-free area around the equator caused sailboats to get stuck for weeks
What is the Doldrums
This Science Fiction author invented the Propeller hat when he was a sophomore in high school
Who is Ray Faraday Nelson?
The Jeopardy Hosts Middle Name
Who is Peter
59% is the theoretical maximum wind turbine efficiency, also called this
What is the Betz Limit?
This political party member was featured on one of the CU Boulder team’s podcast episodes and discussed the future of the windustry in Colorado.
Who is Senator Hansen?