metaefficient.com — The world's largest wind turbine is now the Enercon E-126. This turbine has a rotor blade width of 126 meters (413 feet). The E-126 is a more sophisticated version of the E-112, formerly the world's largest wind turbine and rated at 6 megawatts.
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ldburtonFeb 4, 2008
<a class="user" href="http://www.illinoiswind.org/index.asp">http://www.illinoiswind.org/index.asp</a>
Closed AccountFeb 4, 2008
You aren't getting windmills because they aren't efficient.<a class="user" href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/04/wind_farms_hide_terrorists_guzzle_pork_sez_ofgem_mod/">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/04/wind_farms ...</a>
scamper22Feb 4, 2008
I'm seriously curious. I'm not against Wind power...just really curious.Has any study been done to actually see the impact of large scale deployments. That wind was blowing past it before, now it is not. Could it have in impact on wind patterns?Not sure if it is even the same concept, but for example in Niagara Falls, once they started building all the larger hotels, casions...they found out they were impacting the flow of air, and it got increasingly misty.
halsfieldFeb 4, 2008
nothing in my comment suggested i was worried about cost effectiveness or potential risk/gain ratio for building this.i just saw the residential one's were fairly small and cost $55,000, and i was curious how that compared to the enormous behemoth turbines that they showed in the pic.the toronto guy answered that in the exact way i was looking for.
halsfieldFeb 4, 2008
thats pretty cool, honestly wasnt expecting to get such a concise response , but that was exactly what i was looking for, lot more than i was expecting but i guess they are truly enormous.
eeevildictatorFeb 5, 2008
??? what?
synovaFeb 5, 2008
I assume it would first have to be rotating at 88 mph.
lewieFeb 6, 2008
1776 - U.S. Declaration of Independence.
Closed AccountApr 30, 2010
You're making the (common) mistake of thinking the winds only blow at ground level.Look up at the sky, as far as you can see, winds are blowing, you're only harnessing a tiny tiny fraction of it.Besides, windmills don't actually stop the wind, only a wall would do that. Come to think of it, a wall doesn't stop wind either, the air just flows around it, slowing down for a bit, then speeding up once it has passed the obstacle.But I guess you could ask the dutch, they've been harnessing wind power for centuries, with windmills plastered all over the country.
Closed AccountApr 30, 2010
So, how many die each year in freak windmill meltdowns?