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Why is wind power not used to generate electricity needed for large cities?
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∙ 6y ago
Simply because of the space that would be needed for the wind-turbines ! The amount of power produced by a single wind turbine is relatively small. In order to power a large city, you would need thousands of turbines - which would occupy huge swathes of land !
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∙ 6y ago
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