Wind tower advances lift hub height restrictions

Eize de Vries, Windpower Monthly Magazine, 27 August 2010, 3:58pm

Increasing hub heights and larger rotor diameters on today's wind turbines bring greater loads on the rotor and more tower bending per unit of tower length.

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