Optimal size for wind farms is revealed by computational study
It is well known that the efficiencies of turbines in a wind farm can be significantly lower than that of a single turbine on its own. While small wind farms can achieve a power density of over 10 W/m 2, this can drop to a little as 1 W/m 2 in very large installations The first law of thermodynamics dictates that turbines must reduce the energy of the wind that has passed through them.