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

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Big cranes are needed to install and, at times, repair land-based turbines. Here at a ground-fog shrouded wind farm in Northern California, the crane company Bigge has deployed a Liebherr LR1300 crawler crane to perform turbine maintenance on 60 meter towers. The 330-ton capacity machine was designed with turbine erection and maintenance in mind. According to the company, the crane is rigged with 243 feet of main boom and 23 feet of wind jib. (image via Bigge)

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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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