How does wind spin those giant turbines? It seems like even high-speed winds wouldn’t move it very quickly with how heavy the turbine blades must be.
In: Planetary Science
Air is quite powerful. It carries planes across the sky, it carries ships across the sea.
Try this. Your palm is probably 4 inches wide. Stick it out the window of your car at speed and feel how much force it is.
A large windmill has a blade length of over 2,000 inches, and it has 3 of them.
Thats a whole lot of force!
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