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Why We Need To Rethink Wind Turbines. Go to brilliant.org/Undecided and get 20% off your subscription and a 30 day free trial with Brilliant.org! Wind turbines have a “big” problem. As in, they’re really big: bigger than you might think. One of the latest wind turbine designs sports a swept area of about 10 American football fields. This is generally desirable, especially for offshore wind turbines. More height and larger diameters mean more energy captured with fewer towers. But as you can probably imagine, this makes producing, transporting, and installing these things a colossal undertaking. And as wind turbine manufacturers have competed against each other, the push to maximize size has ended up undermining quality.
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Why We Need To Rethink Wind Turbines. Go to brilliant.org/Undecided and get 20% off your subscription and a 30 day free trial with Brilliant.org! Wind turbines have a “big” problem. As in, they’re really big: bigger than you might think. One of the latest wind turbine designs sports a swept area of about 10 American football fields. This is generally desirable, especially for offshore wind turbines. More height and larger diameters mean more energy captured with fewer towers. But as you can probably imagine, this makes producing, transporting, and installing these things a colossal undertaking. And as wind turbine manufacturers have competed against each other, the push to maximize size has ended up undermining quality.
For more future wind turbine tech, check out How Can A Wind Turbine Be Motionless? youtu.be/OkRqVBpO2BQ
Why Are Floating Wind Turbines So Huge? youtu.be/83FqqfODmmg?list=PLnTSM-ORSgi7uzySCXq8VXhodHB5B5OiQ
Video script and citations:
https://undecided.tech/why-we-need-to-rethink-wind-turbines/
Get my achieve energy security with solar guide:
undecided.link/solar-guide
Follow-up podcast:
Video version - youtube.com/channel/UC4-aWB84Bupf5hxGqrwYqLA
Audio version - undecided.link/stilltbd-podcast
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