The Guided Tour
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Welcome to the Guided Tour Wiki
The Guided Tour is a wiki for people who want to know a lot about wind energy, but does not hold an engineering degree. The wiki is available in English and Chinese, and is currently being updated. Any technical issues can be reported to DWIA
All the content on the wiki is divided into a number of categories, each focusing a specific aspect of wind energy.
Categories
| Wind | Turbine siting |
| Energy output | How does it work? |
| Generators | Turbine design |
| Manufacturing | R&D |
| Electrical grid | Environment |
| Economics | History of wind energy |
| Wind energy manual |
Calculators
On the Guided Tour Wiki, there are a number of popular calculators, use these links for direct access
Wind Energy Economics Calculator
Sound Map Calculator for Wind Turbines
Translation and units
In case you want to see unit definitions and other hard information, you can find it in the Wind energy manual. In the Manual's Glossary you can find Danish, German, Spanish, and French translations of specialist terms used in this guided tour, and references to where they are explained.