On 5/31/2011 9:00 PM, Lew Hodgett wrote:
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Same principle applies to windmills.

Design for 100% output from 10MPH-20MPH wind velocities.

From 20MPH and up, start feathering the blades.

Good grief, it's not the end of the world.

It is very old technology.
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That would, indeed, be very old technology and would reduce the 40%
installed annual average capacity factor to something under 20% just
raising the cost/MWe _another_ factor of 2X (which is already 2X that of
conventional generation for us and 3X that of our nuclear)

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