I think you meant per minute.
Per second would mean that the rotor tips are travelling faster than SR-71.
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One thing that some people don’t consider is that the direction the turbine faces is also controllable and therefore used for braking. A lot of people think the turbine is blown by the wind to face the correct direction, but there is a separate wind direction sensor and a motor to turn the turbine.
The friction brake could be applied at speed, but that was for emergencies.
Never ever underestimate what the wind can do. Wind turbines will always have some latent risk (as do most other activities and constructs). For every design there is a pathological set of circumstances that should never happen. But once in a long while it does. What should surprise you is that so few of these accidents happen that they are news.
Not sure how that works for a wind turbine
You can't escape the fact that the blades are a ton of surface area on a long lever... and if the winds are both forceful and directionally chaotic, there isn't really a "no power position" to be found.
Going back to the sailboat metaphor, it's the conditions where you douse the sails entirely. At most flying a little storm jib. Pointing upwind is just to enable doing so.
Though they are built in rural areas and at sea so even in the worst case disaster (manufacturing flaw, not wind) nobody is hurt.
But, AFAIK, windmills wre immobilized when the wind gets too strong, in order to protect them. If the tech allows it, they can also be made to catch less window. Some Dutch wind mills could be rotated, and the cloth covering the arms could cover less surface. Modern windmills adapt their position automatically. Look at [0] and search for "Ten Have / Beckers".
So yes, faster means more power. Torque is limited by the generator and how much power is "being pulled" from it. (which is a bad description but there you go)
In other words, wind pushing the middle of the blade could accelerate the tip, even if the tip only produces drag.
[1] https://www.doll.eu/de/produkte/schwertransport/nachlaeufer-...
[2] https://www.wiwo.de/technologie/wirtschaft-von-oben/wirtscha...
So near-site in practice means, near-harbor.
Possibly you can have an agile vessel doing the last stretch so that you can change that to ~near-sea.
The base is segments (shaped like calamari rings), which are big but usually can be transported by road, but the big ones probably can't pass under bridges.
Afaik, they are built in dedicated factories but usually on the same continent (at least!) as where they are going to get installed.
... but why calamari rings specifically?
Here are some images to give you an idea of the size of large wind turbines https://growsverige.se/2023/02/11/storleken-svindlar-pa-nya-...
The choice, if between coal-fired plants and windmills should be pretty obvious to birds. Sure we may not see them getting splashed to bits with coal-fired plants but they are silently getting ill/dying over time.
I'm not anti-nuclear, but the risk profile is SO different from wind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%E2%80%93Anderson_Nuclear...
It’s a necessity, and extremely logical and reasonable.
They’re insured the exact same way the banks are.
As is the power generation profile. Wind/solar/tidal are important to develop, and the risk profile should include whatever peaker or storage backs up the variability in generation.
https://www.fws.gov/library/collections/threats-birds
234,012 - Collisions: Land-based wind turbines
6,600,000 - Collisions: Communication towers
72,000,000 - Pesticides & other poisons
214,500,000 - Collision: Vehicles
599,000,000 - Collision: Glass skyscrapers
2,400,000,000 - Predation by cats
[Unknown] - Habitat loss and climate change
These are just some estimates of some admittedly very difficult to capture data, but the orders of magnitude differences are revealing nonetheless.