Gallery: Big Wind: Monster Turbines, Titanic Towers, And More

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Aus einem Guss / Cast in one piece

Here's the 75-meter blade for the new Siemens offshore wind turbine. The company says it manufactures rotor blades in one piece without glue joints. "Blades produced in this manner are extremely robust, which significantly improves the cost efficiency of wind turbines," the company says. (image via Siemens)

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Aus einem Guss / Cast in one piece
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Offshore-Windpark Lillgrund - Windpark mit Offshore-Umspannstation / Lillgrund Offshore Wind Farm - Wind farm with offshore transformer station
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Most land-based wind turbine towers are between 80 and 100 meters high, but this one in Laasow, Germany, soars 160 meters, the tallest in the world. It was built in 2006 and has a power output of 2.5 megawatts. (image via Wikimedia Commons)
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