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development. Everything at Tvind was done as a community:
teachers took responsibility of diferent project areas but all were
linked together in a common efort and involved in all aspects
of school life. The site of the Tvind wind turbine today is on the
school grounds near where a campus was first developed in 1972.
Figure 5.12
Tvind turbine today (left); View from the turbine on Tvind
School (right) (Photos: Folkecenter).
Shortly thereafter in 1974, the oil crisis would afect the young
school and its limited financial resources. The collective teacher
community decided that they would need to develop some in-
house energy sources and considered both solar and wind as
potential options; in the end, the strong wind resource in the area
would persuade the group to develop a wind turbine. Indeed,
today you can see the trees all over the local area which have been
permanently swept to side by the consistently strong winds in
the area.
The group at Tvind included some teachers like Amdi Petersen
who were strongly against nuclear power (he had even been
arrested in Germany during protests against nuclear energy in the
1950s). Nuclear power enthusiasts of the day claimed that wind
turbines that were currently under development were so small
that they would never have a substantial impact on mitigating
Danish dependence on oil, and so the Tvind high school decided
to go big, 2 MW, in order to show Denmark the potential of
wind energy. Led by the Tvind high school teachers, a group of
students, interested community members, engineers and affiliates
from universities, institutes and industry came together to build
the
Tvind
2
MW
wind turbine using a 3-blade downwind
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