Wind Turbines

Wind Turbines

If you are stood behind a wind turbine on a very windy day, would the wind be as strong behind as it is infront?

Quite random but I thought about it this morning when I was driving to work

you get no draught from a wind turbine as it's not a fan, it's simply a mechanism that the wind turns in order to generate power. it's fan shaped to allow the correct movement. Besides that if it were powerful enough to generate any wind it's too high up for you to feel it.

People in Wales nect to the windfarm there complained when it was put up that the wind suddenly got stronger, and this was proved ridiculous.

I meant if you are behind the turbine, the wind is blowing towards the turbine with you behind it, with the turbine using the wind to generate power would the wind be weaker once it hit any objects behind the turbine?

zoe you have too much time on yr hands haha

What a weird thing to think of

I'd reckon that the answer would be no because the pressure from the impending propeller that was to come into contact with that air stream next would disipate the air stream and the strength of the wind would be lost. Plus some of the wind would be deflected off the propellers so that would decrease the strength

It wouldn't really affect the wind speed as the amount of power converted by the turbine is minimal compared to the actual energy carried by the wind.

If you think of it as standing behind fence spread wide apart.

It would be slightly weaker due to the blades moving the wind but not enough for you to feel it.

Hope that helps

a think there canny intimidating

they are art on landscape i say

yay we need more

I reckon we do they are positively breathtaking n the right place. This is my fave so far

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sorry i cant shrink it

Right next to powerlines aswell, what if 1 fell off

Love them me. A load more have just gone up at Nissan near where I work

Re: Wind Turbines

The sign of a healthy mind, that

[ame="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=c3FZtmlHwcA"]YouTube- Windmill/turbine going wild and finally break[/ame]

thats what happens when they fuck up

I used to live in the shithole that is langley park. I'm not surprised so many people complained about their TV reception seeing as there is fuck all to do there apart from having a go on a JCB digger

wind turbines langley park

the bloke who owns nissan reckons he wants to power the whole factory on wind power....last year electricity bill was £1MILLION....ha ha

ha ha, i want to go to diggerland

lanchester wind turbines are mint too. i love how they run along that lush stretch of road, feels like your in a whole other country for mins...lol

[ame="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4N4HQv-UyUo&feature=related"]YouTube- Windmill on Fire in Palm Springs, CA[/ame] hmm