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Gosh, well-considered analysis of each of the major contributors to efficiency -- if you are at all interested in this kind of stuff, it's worth it to just page
by GeorgeTirebiter 5y ago
Gosh, well-considered analysis of each of the major contributors to efficiency -- if you are at all interested in this kind of stuff, it's worth it to just page though the 77 pages.
Besides being able to scavenge alternators from junked cars, potentially lowering the cost-per-watt, there must be economies of scale that are pushing toward absolute garagutan wind power converters (there is nothing 'generated' here, that's a bad term. Power is converted.) https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/01/business/GE-wind-turbine.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/01/business/GE-wind-turbine.... GE Haliade-X 13MW Wind Turbine, 722 ft diameter, 853 ft high. (The 86th floor observatory on the Empire State Building is at 1,050 ft)
- le-mark 5y agoSure, the capital expenditure is primarily around the site, the base, and the tower. If you are putting one in at all, it pays to go big. The site is generally the only recurring payment. That’s why a lot of farmers who host them on their land stop farming. Wind farm operators pay really well.
- phkahler 5y ago>> there must be economies of scale that are pushing toward absolute garagutan wind power converters Well yeah. Twice the diameter is 4x the available power at the same wind speed. Wind tends to be faster higher up too.
- satori99 5y agoWorld's biggest wind turbine shows the disproportionate power of scale; https://newatlas.com/energy/worlds-biggest-wind-turbine-mingyang/ https://newatlas.com/energy/worlds-biggest-wind-turbine-ming...
- snypher 5y agoI usually read it as being a electricity generator, not a power generator, in that a 'diesel generator' does not make diesel, but electricity from diesel.