Why Modern Wind Turbines Are Big and Thin
A fast hand-drawn physics explainer turns turbine shape into a chain of visual constraints and analogies.
By @minutephysics for minutephysicsRuns 03:26
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Why it works
The question is established while the drawing changes from the opening mark to a small historical scene at frame 30; the scale comparison arrives around 4 s. A numerical constraint near 1:04 and the repeated ball analogy at 2:12–2:33 make progressively harder reasoning visible, with 16 measured hard page cuts keeping the long explanation moving.
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