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No offense, but besides the advanced materials and mechanical design required to keep these things from tearing themselves apart, there is a lot more in the co
by TFortunato 9y ago
No offense, but besides the advanced materials and mechanical design required to keep these things from tearing themselves apart, there is a lot more in the control and optimization software for these that goes into adjusting for changing weather conditions and power demand.
I think your suffering from the classic engineer's disease of thinking something is a whole lot more simple than it is when looking at it from the outside.
Example article of some work going on in this space:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/phys.org/news/2014-10-optimizing-turbines-machine.amp https://www.google.com/amp/s/phys.org/news/2014-10-optimizin...
- ThomPete 9y agoI grew up in Denmark the frontrunner on windmills. Vesta is the largest windmill manufactorer in the world. It's literally cultural heritage. If there is anything which have been debated in Denmark it's the pros and cons of windmills, what the technology is, where the money are, what markets are interesting. My point wasn't that you can't optimize just that it's not a field where that's a competitive advantage. So it's the opposite in my case. I know the industry from the inside and know what matters in it and it's not technological advances. But hey each to their own. I certainly wasn't implying he shouldn't get into the field just that there is a lot less going on than what it looks like on the surface.