An investor is at install a total of 40 identical wind turbines in a location with an

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An investor is at install a total of 40 identical wind turbines in a location with an average wind speed of 7.2 m/s. The blade diameter of each turbine is 18 m and the average overall wind turbine efficiency is 33 percent. The turbines are expected to operate under these average conditions 6000 hours a year and the electricity is to be sold to local utility at a price of $0.075/kWh. If the total cost of this installation is $1,200,000, determine how long it will take for these turbines to pay for themselves. Take the density of air to be 1.18 kg/m3.
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Thermodynamics An Engineering Approach

ISBN: 978-0073398174

8th edition

Authors: Yunus A. Cengel, Michael A. Boles

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