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Why do wind power plants have just 3 blades? [duplicate]
Why do wind power plants have just 3 blades? It seems that adding more blades would increase the area that interacts with the wind and gather more energy.
(Image from Wikipedia.)
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Why is it hard to breathe when cycling against the wind?
Sometimes when I bicycle against hard wind, I find it difficult to breathe. Others I have discussed it with have also noticed this effect.
A possible related phenomenon that I heard from an ...
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How fast does water fall in the middle of a very very thick waterfall?
Let me create a very artificial experimental set up. Take a bathtub the size of Delaware and suspend it a mile above the ground. Fill it with water (though I'm not sure to what depth - and it might ...
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How should holes in a Tesla turbine look like?
I think of building a Tesla turbine out of old hard drives.
Now I wonder how to cut ventilation holes in the platters.
On the internet there are a lot of different attempts on that matter. A lot of ...
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Supermarket refrigerator - why is it noticebable colder in this shop area?
As we know fridge can't cool room in which it is (according to Second Law of Thermodynamics, heat emitted by fridge is greater than heat absorped).
However, when we go next to the fridge in ...
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Paper plane between two fans - is this possible?
The setup: two fans facing each other, distance around 1m. Both are turned on. In between them, place a simple paper plane and according to this video, it will fly.
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Why is exhaling more forceful than inhaling?
By blowing at pencil, a piece of paper, or another object up to fifty centimeters away, I can cause it to move away from me significantly. But I can't move an object toward myself by inhaling sharply ...
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Local Mach number for an airfoil
I would like to know how to calculate the local Mach number on the upper surface of an airfoil given the ambient temperature, the local velocity on the airfoil surface, the freestream velocity, and ...
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The visibility of air
For pilots of gliders or sailplanes, the 'thermal' is the most important phenomena of the air. A thermal is classically described as an upward flow of air caused by ground level heating of air that ...
