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

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Here's a true oddity: A giant vertical-axis wind turbine. It's the lone VAWT at the otherwise typical Le Nordais wind farm in Cap-Chat, Quebec, and it is in fact the largest such turbine in the world at 110 meters tall and 60 meters wide. The device is said to have a nameplate capacity of 3.8 megawatts. (image via Wikimedia Commons)

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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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