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BSU works with government, industry to improve wind power efficiency (access required)

by IBR Staff
Published: March 12,2009
Time posted: 1:00 am

Predicting when and how forcefully wind will drive power generation down to the blades of a turbine would help solve several fundamental problems faced by wind power – from the lack of storage on transmission grids, to the variability of wind currents. But using a combination of meteorology, mechanical engineering and computer science, researchers at ...



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