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New tool at Sandia brings some West Texas wind to the Duke City — virtually Photo by Bret Latter, Sandia National Laboratories Rachid Darbali-Zamora examines Sandia National Laboratories’ new wind turbine motor, which will allow the distributed energy team to study how wind farms will behave under a variety of conditions and in different locations. Photo by Bret Latter, Sandia National Laboratories The scaled down turbine motor is connected to software that will allow the Sandia Nat...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Rachid Darbali-Zamora examines Sandia National Laboratories new wind turbine motor, which will allow the distributed energy team to study how wind farms will behave under a variety of conditions and... view more  Credit: Photo by Bret Latter, courtesy of Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have a new tool that allows them to study wind power and see whether it can be efficiently used to provide power to people li...