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by dreamcompiler 2471 days ago
Title is of course sensationalized, this being youtube. There have been many "mistakes" in wind turbines that really count more as experiments we've learned from: Vertical Axis Wind Turbines, high RPM/small diameter, and generator-on-the-ground, to name three. This video is about leading edge erosion, which is a problem actively being researched:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136403211...