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Giant turbines to make north Windy Central
The world's two most powerful wind turbines, with blades up to 500ft in diameter, are to be built on the Northumberland coast in clear view of northeast England's most renowned shorelines. ...The two machines are planned to be up to 650ft high, including their blades. At that height they would be more than 200ft taller than the current tallest turbines in Britain. ...Each could generate up to 7.5 mega-watts of power.
July 13, 2008
by Jonathan Leake
in Times Online
Northumberland is to get the world's biggest wind farm Energy machines
The world's two most powerful wind turbines, with blades up to 500ft in diameter, are to be built on the Northumberland coast in clear view of northeast England's most renowned shorelines.
One will tower over Blyth, a rundown former shipbuilding centre whose construction yards are being used to assemble the giant machines.
The other will stand in shallow waters just off the town where it will be used as a prototype for the hundreds of machines planned for wind farms in the North Sea.
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