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    3. how do wind generators point to windward when they don't have tail fins?
    how do wind generators point to windward when they don't have tail fins?

    I mean the electricity generating wind machines. They don't have a fin to make them point into the wind.

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    0  Views: 430 Answers: 2 Posted: 8 years ago
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      They have what's called a Yaw drive built into them.

      Yaw drive:
      Upwind turbines face into the wind; the yaw drive is used to keep the rotor facing into the wind as the wind direction changes. Downwind turbines don't require a yaw drive, the wind blows the rotor downwind.

      http://www1.eere.energy.gov/windandhydro/wind_how.html#inside
      8 years ago. Rating: 0
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        they dont have the wind does the work ,
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