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Today, wind farms of various scales are cropping up all over the world. The growth of this industry is fueled by the designers and engineers who are developing newer turbines with more efficient designs, larger capacity and higher productivity. The number...

Introduction: Harnessing wind energy to perform work is not a new concept. Since the earliest of times, wind power has been captured with sails to allow traders,merchants and explorers to ply their trades and discover the world around them. On la...

Wind farms need to cover a lot of physical space to produce large amounts of electricity. In many industrialized countries, space is at a premium. They do not produce gases or other by products like other generators do, that poison the environment and any...

In 2007, the European Union pledged to significantly reduce carbon emissions by 2020. To further this goal, European countries have agreed to produce 20% of their energy from renewable sources such as wind farms and solar energy. Sweden has the most ambit...