off-shore wind Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 21 Apr 2014 16:19:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Scotland – Home of World’s Largest Wind Turbine https://www.greenoptimistic.com/scotland-home-worlds-largest-wind-turbine-20140421/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/scotland-home-worlds-largest-wind-turbine-20140421/#comments Mon, 21 Apr 2014 16:18:32 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=47090 Over the winter of 2013, pieces of the world’s largest wind turbine were carefully put into place on a beach in Scotland, and is now generating enough power for nearly 5,000 homes. Calling the Samsung 7 MW prototype off-shore wind turbine “big” is actually a bit of an understatement. To borrow from Douglas Adams’ The […]

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