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Raising Wind Turbine Output With Longer Blades |
Submitted on 
August 11th, 2009 by Ceylan Thomson
Posted in
Clean Energy
Original news source: http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/11/raising-wind-output-with-longer-blades/
August 11th, 2009 by Ceylan Thomson Posted in
Clean Energy Original news source: http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/11/raising-wind-output-with-longer-blades/
A basic problem for wind turbines is that the wind often dies down. As a result, they produce far less electricity than if the wind blew constantly, at full speed. A good wind machine, therefore, may harvest just 30 percent of its maximum potential energy.
Read the full article at http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/11/raising-wind-output-with-longer-blades/
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