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Wind Power Sequence:
"in propeller blade development. We have not only developed much better blades, but with an accompanying 90 percent reduction in aerospace industry’s cost of advanced propeller manufacture. In addition to Hans’ new blades and aerodynamic cowlings, we have developed low-cost methods of mechanical linkage from the mills to the generator and have also developed new octahedral windmill mast structures employing some of my geodesic principles-- which are transportable, powerful, economical, and swiftly erectable.
"In addition to our own windmills, we are installing on Little Spruce Head some of the Greek-island-type windmills with self-furling sails. They are very efficient.
“I have some interesting and comprehensively considerate figures in relation to wind power. Whereas three-quarters of the Earth is covered with water, the 25 percent that is not covered with water is covered in major percentage by ice, snow, deserts, rocky mountains, et. al. The percentage of our planet’s surface whereon vegetation is impounding Sun (star) radiation by photosynthesis amounts to approximately 10 percent.”
