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Aside from Hütter, the various consultants on the project
included a number of future wind industry actors and the project
played a key role in influencing the Danish popular imagination
about the potential of wind power. The overall design process
was truly collective and the Tvind design is truly unique. There were
a few people that persisted in their involvement throughout the
whole project: Amdi Petersen who provided much vision and
initiative for the project, Jens Gjerding from Tvind's Vestjysk
Energikontor collected information and pulled the system design
together, Hans Jørgen Lundgaard Laursen was an advisory engineer
on the structural dynamics, Lars Svanborg served as supervising
engineer concerning the machinery, and the chief welder and
teacher Henning Jønsson.
However, many individuals contributed to the overall project
design. A team of up to 21 students were actively working on the
turbine development at any given time and they held regular
meetings where the two or three engineers hired by the school for
the project would provide diferent potential solutions for design
aspects of the turbine and these would then be discussed at length
until a unanimous decision was reached on a final turbine design
(Jensen, 2010).
Figure 5.15
Meeting at Tvind to discuss the design and construction
process (Photo: Tvind).
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