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    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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    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
    they dont have the wind does the work ,


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