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Re:Real-time wind map by rtkwe on Monday June 23, 2014 @10:44AM (#7932193)
The blades on turbines are massive and would require adding a lot of height to the existing towers. Also working around live transmission lines is extremely dangerous much less trying to add to the tower. It's just too dangerous.
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Re:Real-time wind map by fallinghawks on Monday June 23, 2014 @11:45AM (#7932551)
Plus there's the established hazard to wildlife getting chopped in half. A couple months back I read about some kind of passive system involving ionizing water (memory fails; I may be wrong about the method) instead of using turbines. I wonder if building that kind of structure onto a power tower would work.
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Re:Real-time wind map by fallinghawks on Monday June 23, 2014 @02:29PM (#7933547)
Ah, found it finally: http://www.ewi.tudelft.nl/en/current/ewicon/
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Re:Real-time wind map by baq on Monday June 23, 2014 @10:49AM (#7932225)
see also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqEccgR0q-o or search for 'wind turbine brake failure' on youtube. you don't want this stuff anywhere near high voltage lines.
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