It is not obvious why a small European country like Denmark,
with about 5.5 million inhabitants, managed to place itself in a
global role as pioneer of modern wind power in the 1970s. Why
did this role not go to large industrial countries like the United
States, the United Kingdom and Germany with their manifested
aerodynamics applied to helicopters and airplanes?
This chapter attempts to clarify part of this question where
the author has been actively engaged in promotion of the modern
Danish wind power project since the early 1970s. ...