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More blades and closer spacing between windmills optimizes power / land area. But what matters is power / capital cost.
by tlb 11y ago
More blades and closer spacing between windmills optimizes power / land area. But what matters is power / capital cost.
- mark-r 11y agoHe tried to touch on that - making the blades shorter but in greater quantity will drive efficiencies of scale in manufacturing and shipping. And smaller turbines lead to cheaper towers. Hard to know if he's right without crunching actual numbers though.
- CydeWeys 11y agoWith land area being one factor that goes into capital cost.