I think it rather be Newton who takes care of the SUV owners...
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Do you have any idea how big a modern windmill is?
The ones they are going to use in Nantucket Sound have 161 foot/48,3m blades. Then you have to add the heigth of the tower, which is at least another 70m in this case. This makes that the windmill is about 118,3m/395 foot heigh.
So if you build a mesh cage around it it has to be at least 400 foot high. It is going to be hard and costly to construct such a cage around each wind mill.
And then we don't even think about the decrease in aerodynamic efficiency from the mesh.
And I think the people would really love to see a bunch of big cages standing in the scenery.
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I think it rather be Newton who takes care of the SUV owners ...
Do you have any idea how big a modern windmill is?
The ones they are going to use in Nantucket Sound have 161 foot/48,3m blades. Then you have to add the heigth of the tower, which is at least another 70m in this case. This makes that the windmill is about 118,3m/395 foot heigh.
So if you build a mesh cage around it it has to be at least 400 foot high. It is going to be hard and costly to construct such a cage around each wind mill.
And then we don't even think about the decrease in aerodynamic efficiency from the mesh.
And I think the people would really love to see a bunch of big cages standing in the scenery.