Eagles and other avian predators won’t stand a chance when China starts rolling out turbines with 150m long blades, their outer tips travelling at over 400 km an hour, perfect for slicing and dicing any critter within their extensive range.
When GE announced plans to build a 12MW monster, the wind cult oohed and aahed, now China has plans to the anti with a 22MW behemoth that will merrily shred everything in its wake. It’s almost like they are trying to compensate for something?
True enough, the bigger they come, the harder they fall. These things have a terrifying habit of succumbing to gravity, their 300-tonne superstructures dropping like giant, wounded flies, splattering their inner workings far and wide; and, no doubt, providing locals with an exhilarating seismic experience. The habit is so common that insurers are ramping up the premiums they charge their owners.
Here’s the team from Jo Nova with a little primer on China’s effort to build the world’s largest mechanical bird mincer.
China plans wind tower as big as the Eiffel Tower, blades 1000ft across (Better at killing birds and bats?)
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25 October 2023
In the race for “free” but random energy, or perhaps for bigger status symbols, China set a new record in July with a 16MW wind tower with a rotor diameter of an awesome 853 feet (260m). It’s a bird mincer one quarter of a kilometer across. But already plans are being drawn up for an even bigger one.
What could possibly go wrong? It’s typhoon proof…
Gargantuan 22-MW wind turbine will be among history’s largest machines
By Loz Blain, New Atlas
Imagine something as tall as New York’s Chrysler building, but spinning. China’s Mingyang Smart Energy has announced plans for a colossal 22-megawatt offshore wind turbine, and standing in its presence will be an unprecedented human experience.
The new turbine proposed for 2025 by MingYang, according to Bloomberg, will have a peak output of 22 MW, and a rotor diameter over 310 m (1,017 ft), corresponding to a swept area of at least 75,477 sq m (812,425 sq ft, 14.1 NFL football fields, 60 olympic swimming pools), minus hub.
The Eiffel Tower is 324m tall.
A few months ago Siemens got bad news on turbine maintenance that was so bad it caused a 36% share plunge in a single day. And the news for wind turbines is still so bad Siemens shares haven’t recovered.
So if cables become uninsurable, bearings get brinelling, the leading edge degrades or MingYang wipes out entire flocks of eagles and pods of whales — will they even mention it?
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