Comment on 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds

• deltamental@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s a good link.

  During the stampede scene in the Lion King, imagine the wildebeests were stampeding twice as fast. Then Simba’s dad Mufasa would not only have quadruple the amount of energy imparted by each wildebeest, but also be trampled by twice as many wildebeests per second, so the rate of energy imparted on Mufasa per second would be 4 x 2 = 8 times greater when velocity doubles.

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  • AceBonobo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Education via childhood trauma

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• WFloyd@lemmy.world [bot] ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Thanks for the correction! I got way ahead of myself.

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• MeThisGuy@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  thx for the link! just spent the last hr reading about windmills. and although I live in a country full of them I’ve often wondered, but never really paused to ponder about the intricacies that go into windmill design. fascinating stuff!

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  • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I work with statistics and joined a wind power forecast project, so I have been reading papers on wind power generation for the past month. There’s other more complex formulas that the one shared on the link, but that was the first I found not pay walled.

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