{"id":15415,"date":"2016-03-27T12:17:09","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T16:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=15415"},"modified":"2016-03-25T17:19:16","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T21:19:16","slug":"la-times-cutting-edge-researchers-idea-will-blow-you-away-656-foot-long-blades-on-wind-turbines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/27\/la-times-cutting-edge-researchers-idea-will-blow-you-away-656-foot-long-blades-on-wind-turbines\/","title":{"rendered":"(LA Times) Cutting Edge Researchers’ idea will blow you away: 656-foot long blades on wind turbines"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Efforts to increase wind power mean that turbine blades are getting bigger and bigger. But a new design in the works takes the idea to levels most people can barely imagine: Blades up to 656.2 feet long \u2014 more than two football fields.<\/em><\/p>\n

Today’s longest blades are 262.5 feet. The blades at Imperial County’s Ocotillo wind farm, which sends electricity to San Diego, are 173.9 feet long.<\/em><\/p>\n

“We call it the extreme scale,” Eric Loth, a University of Virginia professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, said of the planned mega-blades. “There’s nothing like it.”<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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The early design would place two \u2014 rather than three \u2014 blades onto a tower. But to construct something of that size, the tower is estimated to rise 1,574 feet, nearly one-third of a mile.<\/em><\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/technology\/la-fi-cutting-edge-windmills-20160313-story.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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