I would add that starting up windmills (getting them started) costs energy and one may want to optimize the decisions taken to start them up. E.g. if the wind forecast predicts good wind only for half an hour or so, it is probably not interesting to start it up. This is especially true for vertical windmills, which are more efficients but require more start-up work.
Also, in the long term, the forecasts may allow better location of windmill farms and their positioning.
So, it's all about the money. Listed so far:
- optimization of start-up, possibly allowing the construction of more efficient plants.
- propagation of forecast of power delivery
- prevent damage
- improved location and positioning
From what I understood, the forward movement of the wave is converted into an circular one, which is -as the wave leaves- reconverted into a forward movement again. With the exception of dissipated energy due to friction, the wave behind the construction should be more or less the same.
Hence also the similarity with the invisibility cloak, where the light that leaves the cloak is supposedly the same as the light entering. I'm not an expert on the latter -neither on ocean hydraulics for that matter- so I wouldn't know whether there is an equivalent for mechanic friction losses there.
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I would add that starting up windmills (getting them started) costs energy and one may want to optimize the decisions taken to start them up. E.g. if the wind forecast predicts good wind only for half an hour or so, it is probably not interesting to start it up. This is especially true for vertical windmills, which are more efficients but require more start-up work.
Also, in the long term, the forecasts may allow better location of windmill farms and their positioning.
So, it's all about the money. Listed so far:
- optimization of start-up, possibly allowing the construction of more efficient plants.
- propagation of forecast of power delivery
- prevent damage
- improved location and positioning
Just my 2 cents,
K
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Yes.
From what I understood, the forward movement of the wave is converted into an circular one, which is -as the wave leaves- reconverted into a forward movement again. With the exception of dissipated energy due to friction, the wave behind the construction should be more or less the same.
Hence also the similarity with the invisibility cloak, where the light that leaves the cloak is supposedly the same as the light entering. I'm not an expert on the latter -neither on ocean hydraulics for that matter- so I wouldn't know whether there is an equivalent for mechanic friction losses there.