Sorry, everybody. What I meant to write was, "Wait a blithering moment!!!",
suggesting, at least, that the metaphor between bunching up cyclists and
bunching up windturbines was backwards. Don't you WANT your turbines to "feel"
the "headwind"?
Of course I am wrong about this, but I sure would like to understand why.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University ([email protected])
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe]
----- Original Message -----
From: Carl Tollander
To: [email protected];The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee
Group
Sent: 11/24/2009 10:13:22 PM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] flocking windmills
What they lack is mobility - lacking some sort of mobile platform maybe they
could get together and decide where the next best placement would be and tell
the manufacturing and installation people. Some sort of distributed
instantiation - Group orders another member, turbine shows up in the mail,
speaks up, says, "I am a wind turbine, the group has determined that it will be
most efficient if you place me over there." And the humans would go do that,
since the turbine family was usually right about such things.
So maybe the turbines "want" some particular configuration, the friction is
just one criteria. If they were a phased array antenna (in addition to being
a group of wind turbines) then they would have additional criteria.
C
Nicholas Thompson wrote:
Now what a blithering moment. Cyclists flock to reduce friction. Ditto fish,
I suppose.
So, turbines want less friction with the wind?????
Something screwy here.
N
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University ([email protected])
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe]
----- Original Message -----
From: Roger Critchlow
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Sent: 11/24/2009 7:36:30 PM
Subject: [FRIAM] flocking windmills
Same power production as existing wind farms in 100th the land area.
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/1124/1
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