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

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For offshore installation, the Pacific Orca is the largest vessel in the world. Made by Swire Pacific Offshore, it is 528 feet long, 160 feet wide and 34 feet deep. On a single foray out to sea, it can transport and install a dozen 3.6-megawatt turbines. Each shipload of those turbines, once in the place, spinning away for a year, generates enough power to meet the needs of around 12,000 average U.S. homes. (image via Swire Pacific Offshore)

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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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