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Old 11-05-2015, 01:45 PM   #33 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by kach22i View Post
Perhaps it would help you to abstract this a bit.

Remember in school all of those math problem solving exercises?
BS in Math & Physics, graduate degrees in computer engineering, so yes, I think I have some notion of what an equation is :-)

I think what you're overlooking here is that the (100 - 59.3 = 40.7)% (see, there's an equation for you!) isn't all, or even mostly, going into drag. It's just passing through, uncaptured. Which, when you think of it, is pretty much common sense, since if a turbine captured all the energy from wind, the air would stop moving, and it would be perfectly calm directly behind the turbine.
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