Wind waste . And if there ’s vigor ( and money ) to be made from this fact of life , we may as well take advantage of it , correct ? That ’s what Vestas is doing — and they ’re using the V164 - 7.0 MW , a monumental , 614 - base tip turbine , to do it .
My encephalon moderately much detonate when I attempt to get the picture how big this thing is . Its rotor , cross a diam of 540 feet , can meet the infield and outfield of Yankee Stadium within it . doubly . Come again ?
The king it supplies is as telling as its spectacles . After the first V164 paradigm is built in late-2012 , it ’s look to pump out 30,000 megawatt hour annually . In other words , in that year it could power 2,787 homes ( assuming the steer keeps shoot a line , which is a serious circumstance when your res publica [ i.e. , England ] wants 20 per centum of its electrical energy to come from wind by 2020 ) . just of luck to ya , chaps . [ VestasviaThe AtlanticandRenewbl ]
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