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Swedish startup company Modivion has built the world's tallest wooden wind turbine. Now operational, it supplies 2 megawatts to 200 homes.
Unique lego style construction that resembles tree rings using thin wood sheets and glue is able to replace tall steel wind turbine towers.
Modvion believes that 10 percent of the wind turbines currently built of steel could be built of laminated wood. Both the wood and steel wind turbines use the same fiberglass blades to catch the wind.
Wind turbines built of steel can be limited to where they can be built by the types of roads, bridges, and underpasses in the area. The cargo loads of the unassembled wind turbines get bigger as the size of the wind turbines get bigger. This has resulted in making it harder to get the parts to the construction site.
Turbine towers made of wood are much easier to truck to the site and are easy to construct large towers. The tower featured in the article is 105 meters, or 345 feet tall. Measured from the highest point of blade it is 150 meters or 492 feet tall.
They plan on providing wood towers that will be 200 meters tall and have blades that will raise the total height to 300 meters.
Unique lego style construction that resembles tree rings using thin wood sheets and glue is able to replace tall steel wind turbine towers.
Modvion believes that 10 percent of the wind turbines currently built of steel could be built of laminated wood. Both the wood and steel wind turbines use the same fiberglass blades to catch the wind.
Wind turbines built of steel can be limited to where they can be built by the types of roads, bridges, and underpasses in the area. The cargo loads of the unassembled wind turbines get bigger as the size of the wind turbines get bigger. This has resulted in making it harder to get the parts to the construction site.
Turbine towers made of wood are much easier to truck to the site and are easy to construct large towers. The tower featured in the article is 105 meters, or 345 feet tall. Measured from the highest point of blade it is 150 meters or 492 feet tall.
They plan on providing wood towers that will be 200 meters tall and have blades that will raise the total height to 300 meters.