“I want one in my garden!” ............................exclaimed a councillor about wind turbines being planned, at a council meeting. She didnt know what is actually an industrial wind turbine: Industrial wind turbines in forests: infographic Environmental impact of a 3 MW industrial wind turbine. A tower with an outer diameter of 11 m (as the width of her house!), made of 46 prefabricated concrete parts for a total weight of about 1,800 tons. A foundation made of more than 1000 tons of concrete with a diameter of 20 m. A huge nacelle with a length of 15 m and a diameter of 6.50 m perched at 149 m; gigantic 50-metre long blades whose ends go up to 199.5 m. A required surface area about the size of a football field (hard to fit in her little garden!). She didnt know either that the transport of a single wind turbine requires 70 articulated lorries. It is likely that she didnt know this infographic:
Posted on: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 19:44:31 +0000
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