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This seems precisely like an argument for a smaller turbine-based design INSTEAD of huge and (relatively) heavy blades. Turbines for car turbochargers and airplane engines can regularly (if I remember correctly) operate in the regime of ~100k RPM.

And like other commenters say: I think it would be much easier to restrict flow in the "funnel" part and most things I can imagine for a freestanding wind machine.



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