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Aeroplane wings and wind turbine blades are extremely different. They are made from completely different materials, have completely different shapes and are des
by nicktelford 7y ago
Aeroplane wings and wind turbine blades are extremely different. They are made from completely different materials, have completely different shapes and are designed for different purposes. I can't possibly see how either could ever be repurposed for the other.
- sk0g 7y agoFair enough, the article stated as much too. Would they be completely worthless in a turbine setting, even if they were free?
- ben7799 7y agoFor one thing turbine blades have to deal with high temperatures. They're not really the same thing at all.
- DonHopkins 7y agoThat's why windmills are so carcinogenic. ;( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_turbine_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_turbine_syndrome
- nicktelford 7y ago> The distribution of recorded events, however, correlates with media coverage of wind farm syndrome itself, and not with the presence or absence of wind farms. Neither term is recognised by any international disease classification system, nor do they appear in any title or abstract in the United States National Library of Medicine's PubMed database. Wind turbine syndrome has been characterized as pseudoscience. I really expect better of HN.