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Simon: I am describing vertical components. Air on the heated side rises. Some of the cooler air replacing it is air from the cooler side of the vane curling under the bottom edges and displacing the vane. Wide rectangular vanes set horizontally should cause faster rotation than the same vanes...

Gentlemen: I have never encountered the following explanation for the light mill's rotation, which suggests to me that it must be flawed. Wouldn't the air on the heated side of each vane rise and cooler air fill in beneath it? Some of the cooler air will come from the cooler side, wrapping...