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Old 10-06-2010, 02:14 PM   #41 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by winkosmosis View Post
This makes no sense. Let's say you have a grill that's 2 square feet. So you put a turbine in, and because of the restriction and energy sapped away by the wind generator, it's now effectively 1 square foot.

You'd be better off making a fairing to restrict the hole to 1 square foot aerodynamically.

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Thanks winkosmosis,

That's exactly what I tried to elaborate in the second post of this thread.

Jim.

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