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Here's one for the aerogeeks:

Is a New Aero more aero than an Aerolite?

Zipp has an old example that is pretty close:

http://www.zipp.com/_media/pdfs/technology/spokeshape.pdf.bak (open with adobe reader)

the 2 wheels: A: 2001 303 24 oval spoke and B: 1997 24 blade spoke
are made with the same rim and A: 24 1.2x2.3mm spokes, B: 24 1.0x3.0mm spokes

the oval spoke wheel is about 1 watt less in aerodrag and 4 watts less in watts to spin at 30mph, so about 5 watts advantage in total.

So I guess your wheel would be a tiny bit slower with dt new aero, but about + 75% spoke strength.

Maybe build it with 16/18/20 spokes.