A New Look at the Left Wing

fastcompany:

WOW!

theatlantic:

Meet a Gargantuan Wind Turbine, the 7-Megawatt V164. You could fit the entire infield and outfield of Yankee stadium inside the area that this enormous machine sweeps. Twice! Read more.

“The annual output of the V164 is estimated to be 30,000 megawatt-hours, which is roughly equivalent to 2,787 households’ electricity consumption.

This is all very different from the small-scale beginnings of the wind industry. In 1979, Vestas’ first turbine was the V10-30kW model, which produced about 40,000 kWh. That is to say, the V164 is expected to produce 750 times as much energy as the V10.

Another way of looking at this is to consider Altamont Pass, Calif., the world’s largest wind farm with over 5,000 turbines when it was built in the 1980s. The entire combined annual energy production of Altamont is 1.1 TWh. The citizens of California could get the same amount of energy from just 36 of the new turbines. Thirty-six machines would replace 5,000.”