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Re:The Future of Wind Turbines? No Blades (2015) by tankenmate on Saturday September 07, 2019 @06:41AM (#20902982)
Unfortunately not, it has fundamental issues, the largest of which is that these devices only scale linearly compared to HAWTs which scale at h^2. Putting in more of them won't over come the scaling losses, neither will the cost reductions; even with twice the number of them and with 50% reduction in cost, you're still loosing linearly at 30% to HAWTs h^2 gains.

https://cleantechnica.com/2015/05/21/bladeless-wind-turbine-...

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