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by mannykannot 2231 days ago
I would guess that their awake is asymmetrical (though in a different way) and so there might be a favored way to arrange them, but as they are inefficient compared to conventional turbines, and because the blades undergo a large cyclic variations of wind load with each rotation, they are not cmpetitive for large-scale commercial use.