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Old 10-25-2012, 01:24 PM   #24 (permalink)
jamesqf
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Originally Posted by zapato View Post
No, the way wind turbine works prevents them from having a break even point - they convert wind force (i.e. drag) to electricity at less than 100% efficiency. Therefore they will always produce less propulsion than drag.
Interesting that you can maintain that it doesn't work, despite links to examples of vehicles that are in fact doing it :-)
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