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Comment Re:Why not vertical instead ? (Score 1) 167

You could pack them more closely than the big-bladed suckers too.

No, you can't, because they would interfere with one another. Strictly speaking of course you can, but it would be a bad idea. You can put the big-bladed ones closer together than they do, but then they would interfere with one another too.

Comment Re:Why not vertical instead ? (Score 1) 167

I don't understand why vertical-axis wind turbines are not more common

Because they are on the ground.

they take less horizontal space

That's outright false.

you can potentially stack shorter pieces as high as you want

Can you stack them high enough that they get into where the wind actually is? And if so, why not just put one windmill where the wind is?

(and use guy lines for stability)

So make them use more horizontal space?

I'm no expert so I guess they have good reason for this race to gigantism, but it seems a bit like the dinosaurs...

Obsolete and dead?

VAWTs make sense only on the tops of lonely hills.

Comment Re:Question (Score 1) 78

Either way, as far as Native American references go, I find the use by the Apache Foundation to be relatively benign.

On one hand, sure, it is that. On the other, it's still cultural appropriation, and the fact that it's using "apache" to refer to something which is "patchy" isn't positive either.

Comment Re:Must a turbine blade be INSIDE a cargo hold (Score 2) 167

A Skycrane, by contrast, has a maximum range of 370 km with no payload. Need to refuel? First you need to hover and detach your payload, then go over somewhere else to refuel, then re-hitch your payload and continue on.

Yes, but the airplane can't take things to their destinations. They have to deliver them to an airport, then the things need to be transported by truck.

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