Course Documents -> Week 6 -> Of Wind Farms And Birds
Decent Blog Post
Dense Wind Farms at low height above the ground (1980's farms) are, in fact, a hazard.
High density needed because output per turbine is low.
So this configuration is bad:
![](http://homework.uoregon.edu/pub/class/hc441/ww11.jpg)
But wind farms are not built like that anymore!!! Instead there is much wider spacing:
![](http://homework.uoregon.edu/pub/class/hc441/ww11a.jpg)
Also moving to vertical axis turbines may be better (less surface area per unit MW needed)
![](http://homework.uoregon.edu/pub/class/hc441/wv12.jpg)
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