Re: flocking windmills
Posted by
Roger Critchlow-2 on
Nov 26, 2009; 5:23am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/flocking-windmills-tp4062545p4069474.html
Well, I better keep my voodoo fluid dynamics speculations to myself in the future.
Here's more information about the reported effect, written by someone who'd seen a vertical axis windmill before.
"The reason, they say, is that the presence of neighbouring turbines concentrates and accelerates the wind."
The reports are all based off an oral presentation made Monday in Minneapolis at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics.
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On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Marcus G. Daniels
<[hidden email]> wrote:
Roger Critchlow wrote:
if you had a flock of egg-beater generators on a piece of Iowa farmland, could you run them as mixers and give a tornado a leg up over the next town down wind?
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