The topic is very interesting.  I have a lot of (dumb) questions.  For example, what happens if something like a hurricane comes along?   Presumably the design is such that the rotors are built to withstand more than "ordinary high velocity" winds, but have "farms" these gadgets ever been subjected to gale force winds for extended periods?   I realize it's a bit like asking a nuclear plant to withstand a Richter 7 scale earthquake and the consequences are obviously less catastrophic even in the case of structural failure, but there are places where it's all too easy to imagine a farm of shattered rotors (for example, off Cape Cod).

Hannah K. O'Luthon