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Article defines pitch using Canadian/British coarse/fine terminology and then goes on to talk about pitch using American high/low terminology. The correspondence is not obvious. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.207.72.103 (talk) 23:10, 20 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
"Passive (stall-controlled) wind turbines rely on the fact that angle of attack increases with wind speed. Blades can be designed to stop functioning past a certain speed. This is another use for twisted blades: the twist allows for a gradual stall as each portion of the blade has a different angle of attack and will stop at a different time."
This is a correct summary of the reference given, but is it correct? Angle of attack actually decreases with wind speed. The purpose of blade twist is for each part of the blade to have the same angle of attack. Is it possible that different parts of the blade would stall at different times?