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Drawing Eggs

When designing wind farms, you need to keep the turbines a certain distance apart from one another. If you don’t, the wakes from the turbines reduce efficiency, and the turbulence can reduce the warranted life of the machine. Typically, a … Continue reading

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Japanese Map Symbol for a windmill

I’m rather taken with the symbol that Japanese maps use for wind mills and wind turbines. I’ll try to modify it for use in QGis. Update: so how does this look? I cleaned up the blade angles, added line end-caps, … Continue reading

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