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Renewables: Share data on wind energy

Giving researchers access to information on turbine performance would allow wind farms to be optimized through data mining, says Andrew Kusiak.

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Kusiak, A. Renewables: Share data on wind energy. Nature 529, 19–21 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/529019a

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