The first blog post on Aeolians.net was published on the 15th of December 2017, that is about one year and three months ago (already !). Because of today’s post on Johannes Juul, this very emotional first post about another wind hero (Peter Lissaman) has been pushed on page 2. Crazy.
I have spent a lot more time on gathering and reading documents than I did on writing posts, this is likely to change in 2019 as the library is now well in shape; there is enough to write about at this stage (222 documents as of today). In particular, I would like to focus on:
- Finishing up the comparison between the wind & site studies of Putnam, Golding, Hütter and Juul; in relation to their turbine design and testing.
- Writing about the early days of remote sensing for Wind Energy (there were LiDARs and SoDARs tested against the Boulder met tower in the late 1970’s).
- Making more of the work of Juul available to the general public in Wind Energy, possibly by re-editing his papers and reports in a modern format. Unlike the three others (Putnam, Golding, Hütter), Juul did not write a book, but his writings deserve so in my opinion. This is a big task, so any volonteers to help me out are welcome – just get in touch.
- In relation to the above, it think it could be interesting, using some simple unsteady BEM code, to create digital models of these first prototypes. This is an even bigger project, which may only come to light in a couple of years.
- Continuing the search for old papers in particular in the following countries: France, Spain, Greece, which have had very active wind energy communities prior to the 1980’s.
- Related to the above: making a more complete article about the studies in France.
Also, at some point in the near future, there should be an article about Aeolians.net published in a journal. The final draft has been approved, I will make a specific post on this when it is out.
Finally, many thanks to the few- but enthusiastic readers of this blog, who sent me encouraging feedbacks via email or Twitter.
Rémi
