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.

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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.

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If you spin the turbine its like a fan, it ‘blows’ air. So if you ‘blow’ air against it, it will spin. And when one blade goes down (because its heavy), it pulls the other blades up.

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