What happens when the wind isn’t blowing?
What happens when it is blowing too hard?
What happens when he blades need to be replaced? They will fill up the
Wyoming windmill blade landfill quite quickly.
If the wind don’t blow then you fire up an evil carbon producing power plant. Shhh. Don’t tell the stoopid watermelons.
Nothing, it just sits there.
What happens when it is blowing too hard?
They feather the blades and decouple the hub from the generator.
They will put them in Washington and outside CNN to ensure that never happens.
I may be wrong, but at the seashore it always seems to be blowing. As far as too much, they have a limiting speed system which “feathers” the prop.
Offshore is probably the one place where these things work pretty well, unfortunately they are ugly.
They can power fans to provide wind to turn the turbine to produce electricity to power fans to provide wind to turn the turbine......
Turtles all the way down - perpetual motion machine.