How To Better Detect Wind Turbine Failures

Wind energy is not very efficient and activists have turned on it because 300,000 out of 10,000,000,000 birds are killed by wind turbines each year. Without subsidies it would not exist but exist it does, only now manufacturers have had to discover physics they did not anticipate. Wind turbine failures primarily happen because components are weakened under turbulent air flow conditions and then need to be replaced, at significant cost. A team writing in European Physical Journal B read more

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