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I think that speed close to 80-100m/s (Crazy Horse can confirm), so only a third of the speed of sound, are already a pretty hard limit, for reasons of acoustics as well as damage to the tips of the blades. So in practice, large wind turbines rotate at something like 20-30rpm or so.

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by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu Mar 3rd, 2011 at 12:53:51 PM EST
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