Betz's law

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Etymology

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It was published in 1919, by the German physicist Albert Betz.

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Betz's law

  1. A law describing the maximum power that can be extracted from the wind. It states that no turbine, regardless of its design, can capture more than 16/27 (59.3%) of the kinetic energy in wind.
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