➡ Its power allows it to generate up to 100 GWh per year, supplying energy to around 55,000 homes.
➡ The blades, which are 153 meters long (taller than the Pyramid of Cheops), can withstand wind gusts of up to 200 km/h.
More information about it here -> https://windletteren.substack.com/p/dongfang-electric-26mw-aerogenerador-mas-grande-mundo
Source of the video -> https://xcancel.com/defrevista/status/1966772243184099443#m
Second source -> https://t.me/rollo_chino/2897
The Eiffel Tower is 330m tall at the tip. This windmill is 185m at the hub, and with the blades being 153m, that adds up to 338m. Technically taller than the Eiffel Tower.
However, the blades are spinning, which means the windmill has a variable height. With three identical, equally-spaced blades, the windmill would vary in height between 338m at the tallest, and 261.5m at the shortest. The average height of the windmill, assuming the blades keep moving, is just shy of 300m. In fact, the windmill is only taller than the Eiffel Tower about 10% of the time. Even if we include the changing height of the Eiffel Tower, which has ranged from its current 330m to as low as 312m, or even if we take the Eiffel Tower’s architectural height of 300m, the Eiffel Tower is still, on average, taller than this windmill. I will grant that the maximum height of the windmill is higher than the Eiffel Tower, but both the median and mean height of the Eiffel Tower is greater than both the median and mean height of the windmill.
Not knocking China or their engineers for this tremendous achievement, I just think they would want to play this kind of thing straight.
The Eiffel tower seems to be the current measuring stick for tall things. Jeddah tower, that new tallest bridge in China, and now this.
With wind turbines being so thin at the bottom and most of the size being up above i wonder why it isn’t more common to have them built in the middle of farmland. Like you could use the space for multiple uses.
Heavy machinery needed to install them probable not so good for farmland. Also, the best time to build them is also the best time to be growing crops typically. Not to mention, it’s not like they just sit there all by themselves. You have to run cables and such to connect them to the grid. Which would further disrupt the farmland. Then you have to think, you have farmland with irrigation lines, and you are gonna also have high voltage power generation going on. So either in ground cables where you really don’t want them,or above ground cables with towers, further disrupting the farmland. Then add to that things like maintenance and whatnot. Basically a bunch of stuff getting in the way of growing crops when growing crops typically like to be left alone to grow.
At least, that’s what I could imagine off the top of my head. lol.
