140 Years of Wind Energy: The World Reaches 1 Million Megawatt
New Discovery: Austrian Engineer Josef Friedländer put in the primary wind generator in Vienna already in 1883
Bonn, 31 July 2023 (WWEA) – Mankind has been making use of the facility of the wind for 1000’s of years. The primary machines pushed by wind in types of wind mills have been invented greater than 1000 years in the past, probably even a lot earlier.
When human beings began to make use of electrical energy, a number of engineers in varied international locations started quickly experiments how wind power may very well be transformed into electrical power. The origins of those efforts to generate electrical energy from wind mills date again into the Eighteen Eighties, when electrical energy was about to change into a standard know-how in lots of elements of the world.
Within the final a long time, wind know-how has seen large technological progress and has change into a important pillar of the electrical energy provide in lots of international locations around the globe. Finish of 2022, wind generators with an general capability of 934 Gigawatt have been put in globally, and at this level of time, the worldwide capability is about to surpass 1 million Megawatts.
Wind energy technology began in parallel in a number of international locations and up to now, historic analysis referred to pioneers in France, Scotland, Denmark and the USA. However more moderen findings point out that the world’s first functioning wind generator was put in, sooner than assumed, by the Austrian engineer Josef Friedländer in 1883, on the event of the Worldwide Electrical Exhibition held in Vienna in that 12 months. {The catalogue} revealed on the event of this exhibition exhibits that the wind generator was situated prominently within the entrance space of the exhibition website.
The American made wind engine, which seemed extra like a conventional wind mill, was driving a generator and, apparently, in contrast to the extra well-known Danish engineer Paul la Cour few years later, Friedländer didn’t produce hydrogen however the wind generator was related with accumulators – in different phrases: batteries.
The journal of Austrian engineers and designers described the wind generator in its version of 28 July 2023 as follows:
“The five-horse Halladay wind engine exhibited between the north gallery of the rotunda and the warehouse on the rear of the electrical railway station by engineer Josef Friedländer for the buildup {of electrical} power via a small dynamo and accumulators (de Calo system) for the operation of a brand new threshing machine (Schuppisser patent), even when the engine is quickly inactive.”
Stefan Gsänger, WWEA Secretary Basic: “The wind energy business and the entire sector has a proud historical past of a minimum of 140 years. The significance and relevance of wind energy has by no means been extra related than immediately, in occasions of local weather disaster and international power entry challenges. Remembering the spirit of pioneers resembling Friedländer, Byth, Goyon or La Cour ought to encourage us to satisfy the remaining challenges for a renewable power world during which wind energy is a mainstay of power provide. The milestone of attaining 1 million Megawatt will profit residents, communities, companies, the entire world group – by mitigating the local weather disaster and by permitting for life for all.”
Paul Gipe, wind power knowledgeable and WWEA Board Member: “Now that wind power is rising apace worldwide, the second 1 million MW will take far much less time than the primary. Wind power has come of age.”
Sources:
Paul Gipe, 25 July 2023: Austrian was First with Wind-Electrical Turbine Not Byth or de Goyon
https://wind-works.org/austrian-was-first-with-wind-electric-turbine-not-byth-or-de-goyon/
WOCHENSCHRIFT DES ÖSTERR. INGENIEUR- UND ARCHITEKTEN-VEREINES.
VIII. Jahrgang, Wien, Samstag den 28. Juli 1883. Nr. 30
Inhalt: Die internationale elektrische Ausstellung Wien 1883. I. (Organisation) und II. (Seilbahn mit elektrischem Antriebe). Von E.R. Leonhardt
https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno-plus?assist=ina&datum=1883&web page=219&measurement=45
Drawing of the Worldwide Electrical Exhibition 1883 displaying Friedländer’s wind generator. (Supply: Techn. Museum Wien, Internationale Elektrotechnische Zeitschrift und Bericht über die elektrische Ausstellung in Wien 1883)
Three of Joseph Friedländer’s wind generators put in in Vienna in 1898. (Supply: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Pavillon Ingenieur Josef Friedländer, Stereo, Prater 1898, Möhsl Karl)
Image displaying engineer Joseph Friedländer along with colleagues, third from left. (Supply: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Assembly of the Artists’ Society “Grüne Insel” at Oberbaurat Franz Wilt’s in Hallstatt 1888)
