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Though wind farms aren’t new to the Atlantic Canada landscape, we don’t often get close enough to appreciate their size and scope. With more projects on the horizon, it’s a good time to consider the engineering behind these wind-powered energy generators
Look up look wayyyy up…
For individual turbines, the average “hub height” or length from the base of the turbine to the middle of its rotor, grew about 83 per cent between 1998 and 2023, reaching about 103 metres. For scale, that’s equivalent to nearly seven Peggy’s Cove lighthouses stacked atop each other.
…and across
Rotor diameter is also getting bigger, now commonly longer than an NFL football field (109.7 metres).
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