The number of blades on a traditional wind turbine.
What is three?
100
A description of wind energy that means that it is not depleted when used.
What is renewable energy?
100
The place where the first windmills were supposedly built.
What is Persia/Iran?
100
The name of a group of wind turbines.
What is a wind farm?
100
The source of energy which heats the air to produce wind.
What is the sun?
200
The piece that has this purpose is the generator.
What is the part of a wind turbine that generates electricity?
200
Three of the negatives of wind turbines.
What are any of: inconsistency of wind, space required, price, noise, radar disruption, danger to birds and bats, unattractiveness?
200
Three of the first uses for windmills.
What are any of: irrigation, wood cutting, grinding grain, drainage, and raising water?
200
The Scottish professor who, in July of 1884, built a cloth-sailed wind turbine and used the electricity to power the lights at his cottage.
Who was James Blyth?
200
The European civilization which used wind powered sails to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Vikings?
300
This is the piece that controls angles and braking, to prevent too much wind.
What is the computer?
300
DAILY DOUBLE: Points will be doubled.
The number of years after which a turbine needs to be replaced.
What is 25?
300
The name of the vertical wind mills first seen in around 1180.
What are post mills?
300
The Danish teacher who set up the society of Wind Electricians in Denmark.
Who was Poul la Cour?
300
The extremely fast 1800's ship which traded from continent to continent, powered by sails.
What is the sailing clipper?
400
A weatherproof pod which contains the pieces of the turbine.
What is the nacelle?
400
A major drawback of the Darrieus design, involving energy required.
What is a necessary kickstart?
400
Bankrupt! If you do not get this right, you lose the amount of points for this question.
The piece that acts like a rudder on a wind mill, turning the cap and sails to the wind, invented by an English engineer in 1745.
What is the fantail?
400
The acronym is VAWTs.
What is the acronym for vertical axis wind turbines?
400
It changes the overall pattern to wind, making it blow in certain directions.
What is the rotation of the earth?
500
A toothed cogwheel.
What is a gear?
500
The amount of emissions released from a wind turbine yearly, in cubic tons of carbon dioxide.
What is nothing?
500
The form of energy that the kinetic energy of wind is changed into in a windmill.
What is rotational energy?
500
The eggbeater design of wind turbine designed by a French engineer in the 1920's.
What is the Darrieus design?
500
Wind is made this way.
What is cool air rushing in to fill the space left by unevenly heated rising hot air?