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Optimising the placement of turbines within a wind farm can significantly increase energy extraction, but only up to a point.
Researchers at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington DC have revealed by computational study that power generation efficiency plummets once wind farms get beyond a certain size.
They investigated wind turbines’ effect on the airflow around them and, consequently, the ability of nearby turbines to extract energy from that airflow.
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