Windplants: Learn About Wind Power

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ILLUSTRATION: FOTOLIA/YEKOO
Now that a goodly percentage of the earth's human population is finally beginning to realize the finite nature of the planet's fossil fuel reserves, the search for more efficient windplant designs has suddenly grown even more intense and a sampling of the latest work in the field is shown on the pages that follow. 

Back around 1931, Marcellus Jacobs (see the Plowboy
Interview in MOTHER EARTH NEWS NO. 24) designed a wind-driven
generator of electricity. It was good. So good that
now — over 40 years later — every commercially successful

  • Published on Mar 1, 1975
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