Broadcast Wind LLC announced today that it has been
awarded a two year contract by the US Department of Agriculture to develop the powering
of broadcast transmitters with wind energy.
Research and New
Technologies coming from the Project Include:
Local Television Research
Broadcast Wind has partnered with
the Iowa State University to research, survey and document the important
socioeconomic linkages between local television and rural America. Previous social
science research indicates that positive socio-economic outcomes, such as
community cohesion, retention of population, business investment, and many
other measures of quality of life are associated with the presence of local
broadcasting in smaller-sized, non-metropolitan communities. Locally generated wind power will help
sustain local broadcasting in rural communities by reducing the cost of
electricity, which is broadcasters’ largest operating expense.
Predictive RF Interference Modeling
Broadcast Wind is developing and
verifying an engineering-based modeling system to predict and mitigate the RF interference
that would be induced by operating a wind turbine in close proximity to a
broadcast tower. Rotating blades have
been known to introduce interference to television reception under certain
conditions when turbines are in the vicinity of the signal path.
Several aspects of wind project
development will benefit including design efficiency, successful permitting and
financial commitment. Our Predictive RF Modeling
will enable wind turbines to be optimized
for efficiency and to be sited on land near television broadcast towers.
This will allow farmers to gain
a whole new source of revenue for their land and local broadcasters to gain
access to low cost wind power energy. Rural
communities will gain by local capital investment, job creation, and the
replacement of coal fired electricity with zero emission wind power generation.
Broadcast Signal
Monitoring Systems
Broadcast Wind is developing inexpensive, easily
deployed, field monitoring probes that will be utilized within our wind study
regions to record and report signal integrity metrics to our cloud based data
storage facility. The probe data will be
used along with weather and wind turbine SCADA information in the development
of our modeling systems. This cloud
based technology will be made available to the broadcast and energy industries
for their RF monitoring, logging and reporting needs in the near future.
For additional information contact: info@broadcastwind.com.
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