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Old 07-18-2008, 12:23 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Re: Texas approves massive new wind power project

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Originally Posted by GMusa View Post
There was also talk about putting massive wind turbines out in Lake Erie. There was talk that one blade would be as long as a football field.
The size of those things amazed me in that Pickens video! I had NO idea those turbines were SO HUGE...they dwarfed the men beside them. I wonder what the blades are made from...aluminum? titanium? fiberglass? Hard to imagine something so large being made from carbon fiber...maybe the same material as the hull of the new Boeing Dreamliner?
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