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:

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But wind farms are not built like that anymore!!! Instead there is much wider spacing:

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Also moving to vertical axis turbines may be better (less surface area per unit MW needed)

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