Word: turbineâ
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Dates: during 1978-1978
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...joint project of the Department of Energy and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the windmill ?more correctly, wind turbine???has a body by Westinghouse and blades by Lockheed, and cost $1.25 million. Parked by its side is a van full of monitoring equipment and computers that start the rotor turning when the wind hits 12 m.p.h. and shut it off, to prevent it from wearing out, at 40 m.p.h. Since winds averaging nearly 15 m.p.h. blow through Clayton almost every day, the turbine more often than not will be generating 200 kw. of electricity?enough to power...
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