News & Articles on Large Wind Power

Large wind turbines are those used to generate commercial quantities of electricity. This category includes single turbines used in distributed applications as well as arrays of multiple wind turbines used in a wind power plant.

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Charts of Wind Tunnel Model Tests Smith-Putnam Air Turbine

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Paul Gipe

Charts from Model Tests of the Smith-Putnam Air Turbine conducted under the supervision of Elliott G. Reid, Guggenheim Aeronautic Laboratory, …

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Final Report Model Tests Smith-Putnam Air Turbine

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Paul Gipe

57-page final report on Model Tests of the Smith-Putnam Air Turbine conducted under the supervision of Elliott G. Reid, Guggenheim …

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Carl Wilcox’s Role in the Smith-Putnam Project

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Paul Gipe

To illustrate the role that Carl Wilcox played in the Smith-Putnam project, I’ve pulled together several citations as well as …

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Carl Wilcox References in the Text of Putnam’s Power from the Wind

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Paul Gipe

To further illustrate the role of Carl Wilcox in the Smith-Putnam project, I searched the name index and pulled together …

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Carl Wilcox Citations in Palmer Putnam’s Power from the Wind

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Paul Gipe

In the 1970s Carl Wilcox gave me a box of archive materials on the Smith-Putnam wind turbine project. I had …

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Wind farm noise not harmful to health: New study finds no evidence of wind turbine syndrome

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Sophie Vorrath

Once again another study confirms there are no health impacts from “infrasound.”