Wind machines for the California Aqueduct. Volume I. Executive summary

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The California Aqueduct is a 684-mile long water system including natural waterways and a 444-mile length of canal and tunnel, that delivers water from the mountains of Northern California to arid Southern California for agricultural, industrial and residential use. The objective of the study was to examine the applicability of wind energy conversion systems to meet a part of the pumping needs of the Aqueduct. It was hoped that the intermittent nature of the wind resource would not be detrimental to the Aqueduct operations because of the inherent storage capacity of the lakes and reservoirs along the canal and the capacity of the canal itself. Furthermore, the location of the major pumping load is in the mountainous regions along the Aquduct path where the topography naturally leads to a potential wind enery resource. The study was limited to a conceptual evaluation of one wind energy conversion system application to a major part of the Aqueduct.

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