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That reminds me of that recent finding that wind turbines would be a few percent more efficient if they turned anti clock-wise (at least on the northern hemisph
by patall 5y ago
That reminds me of that recent finding that wind turbines would be a few percent more efficient if they turned anti clock-wise (at least on the northern hemisphere), but practically turbines in use today turn clock-wise. Sure, it should not be to much engineering to change that but still you need to adopt the entire manifacturing process to it.
- dividedbyzero 5y agoWould you have a source for this? Really curious what might cause that.
- Spare_account 5y agoI can't vouch for the sources, but here is some reading material: https://wes.copernicus.org/articles/5/1623/2020/wes-5-1623-2020-discussion.html https://wes.copernicus.org/articles/5/1623/2020/wes-5-1623-2... [PDF] https://wes.copernicus.org/preprints/wes-2019-105/wes-2019-105.pdf https://wes.copernicus.org/preprints/wes-2019-105/wes-2019-1... https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/05/14/which-way-a-wind-turbine-turns-might-not-seem-to-matter https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/05/14/...
- Wohlf 5y agoInteresting, so it's not the rotation direction of any individual turbine that matters but how the wake of turbines affect others around it.