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"will provide power at wind speeds from 8 to 28 miles per hour" Neat idea but unless you are within 3 miles of the coast you're unlikely to see wind speeds abo
by hadlock 4y ago
"will provide power at wind speeds from 8 to 28 miles per hour"
Neat idea but unless you are within 3 miles of the coast you're unlikely to see wind speeds above 6mph in your area for any sustained period of time.
- MetallicCloud 4y agoReally? I'm in Boulder, CO and we often have days of continuous strong winds. We're nowhere near a coast.
- micromacrofoot 4y agoyeah because you're way up a mountain!
- oh_sigh 4y agoAnother boulderite checking in... Boulder is right on the foothills and mostly on the plains, not the mountains...you can just get to a mountain within 10 minutes.
- tejtm 4y agosea level checking in, err Boulder you are nigh a mile high. It would take more than 10 minutes to fly off the mountain you are already on.
- oh_sigh 4y agoSo you consider Kansas a mountain then? Interesting...
- micromacrofoot 4y agoit’s a very very wide one
- tejtm 4y agoOh high Plateau
- morcheeba 4y agoLet's test it at the NREL National Wind Technology Center!
- gorgoiler 4y agoNorth Dakota has entered the chat. Windiness, as you say, is indeed correlated with exposure. The top three ways of exposing oneself are: ocean (or the next best thing for land lubbers: coast next to ocean), mountain, and wide open space.
- spaetzleesser 4y agoCome to Albuquerque and you’ll see a lot of wind.
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- seizethegdgap 4y agoWyoming, the Dakotas, Montana, Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, and Texas say "Hi".
- hadlock 4y agoOk you buy the thing and see if it's practical for your lifestyle and let me know how that goes for you. At no point in the last 30 years did we not have the technology to build this device, nor is it a novel concept. Look around and see how popular they are, and wonder why.
- regularfry 4y agoIn Olympic recurve archery, as a rough rule of thumb I found that wind speeds were very easy to compensate for when they were in the single digits, hard when less than 20mph, and virtually impossible higher than that. I live about 100 miles from the coast, and the number of days I can remember having an easy time of it is of the order of five in a given year.