Eli5: windmills
Why is it that in an entire group of windmills all facing the same direction and all right next to each other, you sometimes only see one or two moving and the other windmills aren’t moving at all?
I’m driving through California and noticed this, which is prompting my question. I would expect all of them should be turning, so I think they’re either immobilizing most of them, or manually spinning those windmills somehow. In either case, why? Or am I wrong in my assumptions?
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Wind turbines can be shut down/locked, either because they’re under maintenance, or because the entire field of turbines is projected to produce too much power for the electrical grid on any given day and so only some are allowed to produce power.
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