Wind turbines keep getting bigger: Each blade can be longer than a football field, and one offshore turbine recently installed in China is as tall as a 50-story building. Making the base to hold up a ...
We must protect the sustainable livelihood of future generations, and wind turbines could be the way, because they do more ...
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Why we need to rethink wind turbines

Wind turbines face significant challenges due to their size, with some designs covering an area equivalent to about 10 American football fields. This substantial size benefits offshore wind turbines ...
WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 23: U.S. President Joe Biden points to a wind turbine size comparison chart during a meeting about the Federal-State Offshore Wind Implementation Partnership in the Roosevelt ...
In a cavernous testing facility on England’s windswept northeast coast, engineers are thrashing a 50-ton, multimillion-dollar wind turbine blade around like a giant sword—on purpose. The blade is ...
The longest wind turbine blades ever to enter the western United States arrived at the Port of Vancouver, Wash., in 2020. They were 253 feet long. This winter, new blades will arrive that are 272 feet ...
The sheer size of today's wind turbines is mind-boggling – they're among the biggest machines humanity has ever built, and the bigger they get, the more potential value you can get by adding a little ...
The 132-MW South Fork offshore wind project completed in New York last year was the first U.S. utility-scale project to send power to the grid, but the state now is making moves to procure more ...