Henrik stiesdal biography for kids

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    Henrik Stiesdal

    Danish inventor and businessman

    Henrik Stiesdal (born April 14, 1957) is a Danish inventor and businessman in the modern wind power industry.

    In 1978, he designed one of the first wind turbines representing the so-called "Danish Concept" which dominated the global wind industry through the 1980s.[1] Until 2014, Stiesdal was the chief technology officer of Siemens Wind Power.

    During his professional career, Stiesdal has made more than 175 inventions and has received more than 650 patents related to wind power technology.

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    • Early life

    Henrik Stiesdal was born in Hørsholm, a town located in the East of Denmark. Between 1979–1988 he studied medicine, physics and biology at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense. In 1976, Stiesdal became motivated by the steam plume from a powerplant cooling tower in England to build two small test turbines out of wood, steel and fabric.[2][3][4] He subsequently built a full-scale gri