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Changing number of wind turbine blades
I have read (and to some degree understood) that if one were to increase the number of blades for a wind turbine, it would be reasonable to reduce its rotational speed. In my mind I'd associate this ...
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How is the kinetic energy of the wind transferred onto a lift based wind turbine?
The rotor blades of a lift based wind turbine are shaped like airfoils, so the wind flowing around them creates a lift force which in turn moves them around. From a thermodynamic viewpoint and like ...
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How big is the power loss of a downwind wind turbine due to turbulence created by an upwind turbine?
When a horizontal axis wind turbine is placed downwind of another horizontal axis wind turbine (distance between the two is minimal), then the downwind wind turbine has a lower power output because of
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Energy from man-made tornadoes
Peter Thiel just paid $300,000 to Canadian inventor Louis Michaud who is working to construct useful "man-made tornadoes" or "atmospheric vortex engines" which could be components of future power ...
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Why do blades of windturbine propellers as comp. to propellers of ships cover very different areas?
This is a thought I asked myself often, but never did real efforts
to get an answer. Barsmonsters question about number of fans of a
wind turbine made me think of it again
Why do blades of aircraft ...
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