Comments on: Computer Modelling Could Help Boost Urban Wind Power http://cleantechnica.com/2012/09/17/computer-modelling-could-help-boost-urban-wind-power/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Sun, 28 Dec 2014 21:40:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Bob_Wallace http://cleantechnica.com/2012/09/17/computer-modelling-could-help-boost-urban-wind-power/#comment-132735 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 06:04:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=42696#comment-132735 How far the turbine should be above the roof line?

About 80 meters. Up where the wind is clean.

Little turbines down low is like mounting your solar panels under a tree. Figure our where the energy is dense and build to that.

]]> By: Jennifer Prokhorov http://cleantechnica.com/2012/09/17/computer-modelling-could-help-boost-urban-wind-power/#comment-132724 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:50:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=42696#comment-132724 Re-envision small rooftop turbines as rotating in the xy plane rather than in the xz plane per the photos shown. xyplane wind turbines (vertical blades) could be housed in a metal net for keeping birds out.

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