Word: gearless
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...cheapest coal- powered generators. Wind turbines produce electricity in California for between 4.5 cents and 4.8 cents per KW-H, roughly the same as the cost of power from a coal-fired plant. Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute in Colorado believes that a new generation of gearless wind turbines will improve efficiency and lower the cost to 3.5 cents per KW-H by the end of the decade. Christopher Flavin, co-author of Power Surge, a Worldwatch Institute book, says that within the next year India will be installing wind turbines at a faster rate than any other...
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