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Wind Energy Harvesting Just a general question.. How do flapping wing energy harvesters actually produce electrical...

Wind Energy Harvesting

Just a general question..

How do flapping wing energy harvesters actually produce electrical energy? I have a project on this so I want to understand the basics.

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Wind power is the use of the wind's kinetic energy togenerate electricity or mechanical power. ... This is a similar process to the ancient windmill, except the mechanical power in the rotor shaft is used to rotate an electric generator, producing electricity. Schematic of the flexible flapping wing-based energy harvester. A piezoelectric patch is attached to the wing near its root to convert the strain variation from its deformation to a usable source of energy.

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