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SUMR Wind Mills from US Department of Energy Will Be Taller Than Eiffel Tower
- YashdharaC 4y agoThe SUMR (Segmented Ultralight Morphing Rotors) project at US Department of Energy (ARPAE) aims to design extreme-scale blades that are 200 meters long. Such blades can power 50-megawatt wind turbines and will be taller than the Eiffel Tower.
- Someone 4y agoA 200m blade length (400m diameter) is quite a leap from what I think currently are the largest wind turbines: - https://www.ge.com/renewableenergy/wind-energy/offshore-wind/haliade-x-offshore-turbine https://www.ge.com/renewableenergy/wind-energy/offshore-wind... (220m diameter, 14MW) - https://www.offshorewind.biz/2021/11/12/worlds-largest-most-powerful-wind-turbine-stands-complete/ https://www.offshorewind.biz/2021/11/12/worlds-largest-most-... (222m diameter, 15MW)
- YashdharaC 4y agoYes, they are still in design concept stage I believe and quite sometime from reality.