Which way a wind turbine turns might not seem to matter, but it does
Fun-fact pot-shot time!<p>The first paragraph states the thesis that there's something about wind patterns in the northern hemisphere that make windmill directionality important.<p>The first paragraph also says:<p>> It is convenient to have all clock hands turn in the same direction, but it is an accident of history which direction that is.<p>Clockwise is not a random coin-flip of history. Ironically, clockwise is clockwise <i>also</i> because something about the northern hemisphere: the shadows on a sundial move clockwise in the northern hemisphere, so when europeans first started making clocks, they continued the sundial convention!