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Old 01-06-2023, 09:58 PM   #1155 (permalink)
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Multiple blades help with the very coarse pitch used to keep the tip speeds subsonic. On windmills, a single blade is sufficient to extract almost all the possible energy, but it needs a counterweight, and adding a second blade causes weird balance issues, so three are used.
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