World’s Most Powerful Wind Turbine.....

nhboy

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World's Most Powerful Wind Turbine To Be Installed Off Belgian Coast | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World

"The wind turbine, which has a rated capacity of 6.15 MW, has been installed at the offshore Thornton Bank wind farm where it will aid in the generation of around 325 MW of power — this is enough to meet the electricity needs for 600,000 people a year. Alone, the new 6 MW turbine will single-handedly be able to meet the demands of 6,000 people.

How big is it? Well, the nacelle alone is the size of a two-family house, and the rotor has a radius of over 400 feet and sweeps the surface area of two football fields.

“The installation of the first 6 MW turbine in a commercial offshore wind farm is an important milestone for the entire offshore wind industry,” Martin Skiba, head of offshore wind power at RWE Innogy in a statement. “It marks another step along the road towards larger offshore wind power plants with ever more powerful machines.”

 

Gilligan

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That is going to be something spectacular to see when it comes apart in a heavy blow. Not that the smaller ones that come apart now aren't pretty spectacular in their own right...:yahoo:
 

Railroad

Routinely Derailed
If those things ever get REALLY practical (as in, not coming apart in a heavy blow, and becoming more efficient power producers), I could become a fan. In the meantime, I'm a fan of nuclear power. It's hard to beat the efficiency, and if you have good practical-minded engineers laying out the plants, they're relatively safe.
 
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