In reply to Horace Heffner's message of Mon, 5 Jan 2009 15:09:03 -0900: Hi, [snip] >Alaska often has sustained high winds, hurricane force, at high >elevations. Windmills built along mountain ridges could produce vast >amounts of energy. One problem is avoiding shutdown during peak >energy production periods. This can be accomplished by providing an >additional set of small diameter high wind speed turbines that do not >have to be feathered.
...or possibly either making the blades of normal turbines somewhat retractable, or not completely feathering them? (One would think that the latter option would be obvious - there must be something wrong with it). Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
