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What is the World's Largest Wind Turbine?

So if you've ever seen the transporting of a wind turbine, you know these are way bigger than they look. And if you visited even an average sized wind turbine, the 35 meter blades still probably shocked you. But engineers in China have just built the largest wind turbine ever.

It's a huge deal because China already generates 52% of the entire world's offshore wind energy. But this 1 wind turbine alone has already powered 170,000 homes during a typhoon. That's because power generated by these increase by a square law, or quadratically. And at a height close to that of the Eiffel tower, this turbine has a 123 meter long blade. So…

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