“No, I didn’t know that about high winds shutting down the turbines, prior to learning it here, today.”
The classic old windmill, with the wooden blades, had a “tail” that was part of the wind speed regulator. In low speed wind the tail was straight back so the blades faced the wind. As the blade speed went up, gears moved the tail to the side, so that the blades would face the wind more and more edge-on, it was a governor that kept the windmill from ripping itself apart and kept the system near the peak in the power curve.
The modern 30 foot turbines must do something similar, but I don’t know what.
A serious power plant is 1000 MW. Windmills have to be spaced out.
To build a 1000 MW worth of windmill capacity you need hundreds of thousands of acres of land i.e. hundreds of square miles and tens of thousands of windmill.
AND WHEN YOU ARE DONE YOU STILL NEED TO BUILD A REAL POWER PLANT TO BACK IT UP.
This is idiocy. In 20 years from now China will have cheap, safe, reliable power and Americans will poor and sitting in the dark.