Re: flocking windmills

Posted by Nick Thompson on Nov 25, 2009; 4:28am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/flocking-windmills-tp4062545p4062946.html

Now what a blithering moment.  Cyclists flock to reduce friction.  Ditto fish, I suppose. 

 

So, turbines want less friction with the wind?????

 

Something screwy here. 

 

N

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,

Clark University ([hidden email])

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe]

 

 

 

 

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Same power production as existing wind farms in 100th the land area.

  http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/1124/1

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