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Wind power scales with the turbine area squared, and the wind velocity cubed. That means there's massive incentive to make bigger and taller turbines (windspeeds are higher the further away from the ground you are).

For that reason, there is very little reason to build small wind turbines, even if there wasn't a down-stream loss of power from putting too many close together.

parent eigenspace 14 days ago

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