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Couldn't they just strap solar panels all over the surface or on top of the wind mills to mitigate some of the inefficiencies? On a related note, whatever happe
by methodin 16y ago
Couldn't they just strap solar panels all over the surface or on top of the wind mills to mitigate some of the inefficiencies? On a related note, whatever happened to the spray-on solar material using nanotechnology?
- mooism2 16y agoSolar power? In Scotland?
- unwind 16y agoI don't think the top surface area of a typical wind turbine is even close to being large enough for that to pay back. The largest turbines (Enercon E-126 [1]) are rated at 7 MW of wind power. The largest photovoltaic solar plant (Sarnia [2]) in the world is rated at 80 MW, i.e. about 11 of the largest wind turbines. The cell surface area of that plant is 966,000 square meters. Again, I don't think the surface area of the top of a single wind turbine's gondola quite suffices. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_turbine#Largest_capacity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_turbine#Largest_capacity [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarnia_Photovoltaic_Power_Plant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarnia_Photovoltaic_Power_Plant