The world may have backed the wrong horse as far as wind turbines are concerned, according to new research from Oxford Brookes University in the UK. In-depth computational models now suggests that the large wind farms we have come to know and love using horizontal turbines, could be producing less power than they would if using vertical turbines instead. The research, recently published in the journal Renewable Energy, was conducted by the School of Engineering, Computing, and Mathematics at Oxford Brookes University – led by Professor Ivanos Tzanakis. Around 16 months’ worth of computational flow dynamic simulations were run to assess the parameters that will optimize the output of Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (VAWTs) when arranged within a wind farm.…