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How does a fan work?
Everywhere I turn, all the talk is about the coronavirus, and it’s exhausting because I already deal with news of the coronavirus as part of my day-job. It’s impossible to catch people having conversations about anything else at all. I … Continue reading
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Tagged AC motor, aerodynamics, airfoils, Bernoullis principle, brush comutator, capacitance, capacitor regulator, continuity equation, convection, DC motor, drag, electric current, Electromagnetism, electromagnets, graphite, induction motor, Lenz law, lift, Lorentz force, magnetization, split-ring commutator, steel, synchronous motor, three phase current
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A windier world
A new paper in Nature Climate Change reports a reversal in “terrestrial stilling” since 2010 – i.e. global wind speeds, thought to be in decline thanks to deforestation and real estate development, actually stopped slowing around 2010 and have been … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, climate crisis, climate emergency, plastic, steel, terrestrial stilling, wind energy, wind turbine
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