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2. Wildorado Wind Ranch - Wikipedia

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   The Wildorado Wind Ranch, completed in 2007, is located on approximately 16,000 acres (6,500 ha) 25 miles (40 km) west of Amarillo, Texas, and consists of 161 MW of wind turbines (70 Siemens Mk II turbines each capable of generating 2.3 MW at peak wind speeds). These turbines have the capacity to meet the electricity demand of more than 50,000 ...

3. Altamont Pass wind farm - Wikipedia

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   The wind farm is composed of 4,930 [2] relatively small wind turbines of various types, making it at one time the largest wind farm in the world in terms of capacity. Altamont Pass is still one of the largest concentration of wind turbines in the world, with a capacity of 576 megawatts (MW), producing about 125 MW on average and 1.1 terawatt ...

4. Wind farm - Wikipedia

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   Many wind turbine blades are made of fiberglass and some only had a lifetime of 10 to 20 years. [139] Previously, there was no market for recycling these old blades, [140] and they were commonly disposed of in landfills. [141] Because blades are hollow, they take up a large volume compared to their mass.

5. The broken wind turbine near Nantucket was ‘highly unusual ...

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   The massive offshore wind turbine blade that broke and spread fiberglass and foam debris across Nantucket beaches this week was one of several recent failures of blades made by GE Vernova – a ...

6. Turbine blades spotted off New Bedford were from Vineyard ...

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   October was busy month for Vineyard Wind 1 blade efforts. In an Oct. 23 update from Vineyard Wind on the incident and response action plan, the company shared that GE Vernova was "committed to ...

7. What do you do with 8,000 defunct wind turbine blades? Sit on ...

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   While most of a wind turbine can be reused, its enormous fiberglass blades are difficult to dispose of when they reach the end of a 20-25 year life span. This has led to vast graveyards of these ...

8. List of windmills in the United States - Wikipedia

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   A wind turbine in Texas A wind engine applied unusually, to power a plow, in Texas This list aims to include only traditional-type windmills, with the exception that it also includes NRHP-listed historic windpumps known as windmills, such as the "Iron Turbine Windmill" in Arizona.

9. Wind energy policy of the United States - Wikipedia

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   Many wind turbine blades are made of fiberglass and some only had a lifetime of 10 to 20 years. [83] Previously, there was no market for recycling these old blades, [84] and they were commonly disposed of in landfills. [85] Because blades are hollow, they take up a large volume compared to their mass.