Guess I must be getting as bad as some politicians — I said there would not be any more Wind Turbine articles, at least for a while, but here’s another one.
While waiting in the dental office as Mary was having some dental work, I picked up a Time magazine. In it was an article on the 100 Best Inventions of 2019. One of those was a new larger offshore wind turbine they are already testing. When I say larger, I mean larger.
Whereas I was surprised before to find some of the current blades are now 150 feet long, this new wind turbine will have blades over twice as long — about 350 feet, more than the length of a football field. Can you imagine trying to recycle those blades? The tower these blades will be mounted on will need to be taller than the Washington Monument in D.C. — 555 feet tall. It will be over 800 feet tall.
