Question

A typical wind turbine extracts 40% of the kinetic energy of the wind that blows through the area swept by the blades. For a large turbine, 120,000 kg of air moves past the blades at 16m/s every second. If the wind turbine extracts 40% of this kinetic energy, and if 80% of this energy is converted to electric energy, what is the power output of the generator?

Answer 1

Here,

The mass is,

m= 120,000 kg

Then,