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• n  a board having 64 squares of two alternating colors

• checkerboard

News & Articles

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• Wind energy: New insight into best arrangement of wind turbines on large installations
  Researchers have developed a new way to study wake effects that includes the airflow both within and around a wind farm and challenges the conventional belief that turbines arrayed in checker board patterns produce the highest power output. Their study provides insight into factors that determine the most favorable positioning.
  April 1, 2014 - Science Daily
• Wind Energy: On the Grid, Off the Checkerboard
  Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have developed a new way to study wake effects that includes the airflow both within and around a wind farm and challenges the conventional belief that turbines arrayed in checker board patterns produce the highest power output. Their study provides insight into factors that determine the most favorable positioning, described in the Journal of Renewable ...
  April 1, 2014 - Newswise