The effect of planet thermal conductance on conversion of solar energy into wind energy

R.Y. Nuwayhid and F. Moukalled

Renewable Energy, 1994, vol. 4, issue 1, 53-58

Abstract: Endoreversible thermodynamics are used for studying the influence of a planet's thermal conductance on conversion of solar energy into wind energy. Results indicate a strong dependence of the rate of wind energy generated on the amount of heat leaking by conduction form the illuminated side to the dark side of the planet. The upper boundary for the conversion efficiency of solar energy into wind energy derived in DeVos and Flater [Am. J. Phys.59(8), 251–254 (1991)] is found to be well above the actual value calculated here. Furthermore, an upper limit for the planet's dimensionless thermal conductance, a function only of the thermal conversion efficiency, is also determined.

Date: 1994
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DOI: 10.1016/0960-1481(94)90064-7

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