A country would like to provide all of its residential and industrial electricity needs by wind power at a rate of $2.5 \mathrm {~kW}$ c per capita. It plans to install wind farms covering $10 \%$ of the land area consisting of $2 \mathrm { MW }$ wind turbines with a spacing of $1.0 \mathrm {~km}$ in the prevailing wind direction and $0.5 \mathrm {~km}$ in the orthogonal direction and with an overall capacity factor of $24 \%$
(a) Estimate the maximum population density that can be accommodated by this approach?
(b) In which European countries would this be feasible?

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The Answer of A country would like to provide all of its residential and industrial electricity needs by wind power at a rate of $2.5 \mathrm {~kW}$ c per capita. It plans to install wind farms covering $10 \%$ of the land area consisting of $2 \mathrm { MW }$ wind turbines with a spacing of $1.0 \mathrm {~km}$ in the prevailing wind direction and $0.5 \mathrm {~km}$ in the orthogonal direction and with an overall capacity factor of $24 \%$
(a) Estimate the maximum population density that can be accommodated by this approach?
(b) In which European countries would this be feasible?

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