This nearly 500-foot tall wind turbine is built to withstand typhoon-level winds. The rotor diameter is 853 feet, which is the new record, and can generate 16 megawatts of power.
A team from GE in the United States is building a turbine that can generate 18 megawatts of wind power.
Now this is a competition between the two economic giants that I can really get behind. More sustainable energy sources benefits everyone.
This technology has come a long way since Charles Brush built the first wind turbine in the backyard of his Ohio mansion in 1888. MySE 16-260’s central tower stands almost 500 feet tall (nearly the size of the Washington Monument) and boasts a generator that weighs 385 metric tons. Mingyang Smart Energy, the designer of the turbine, said in a LinkedIn post that the turbine will “produce 67 million kWh of power annually, enough for the usage of 80,000 residents, reducing C02 by 56,000 tonnes (61,729 U.S. tons).”
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