wind turbine design

Ry122

Does anyone know of somewhere I could find some documentation on how to create a wind turbine?

stewartcs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_turbine_design

http://www.windpower.org/en/tour/design/index.htm

CS

Ry122

Thanks
In the second link it says that with turbines that have rotors that face the wind the rotors need to be placed some distance from the tower.
Do you know why this is?

stewartcs

To help prevent the blades from striking the tower.

CS