When it comes to building things, Eric Loth has his head in the clouds. This engineering professor at the University of Virginia wants to construct a wind turbine standing more than five times higher than the Statue of Liberty, with rotor blades longer than the Washington Monument is tall.

Not only that, the 1,650-foot-high mega-turbine would change along with the weather, bending its blades gracefully to cope with hurricane-strength winds. And all of this would happen dozens of miles out at sea.

Typical wind turbines are about 80 meters, or 260 feet, in height. Why build one so big?

“The larger a turbine, the more powerful and efficient it becomes, and that reduces the cost of energy,” Loth says. “Ultimately, cost is going to drive decisions about energy much more than anyone’s opinion on climate change.”

That's how the reportage begins...

Super-Colossal Wind Turbines May Be on the Horizon; NBC News; August 7, 2017.
https://www.nbcnews.com/mac..._npd_nn_fb_mc_170821

Checkboxed as "Politics", just to be on the safe side.

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They can build wind turbines (standard size) and have a farm going up in no time. I see them being spouted so fast that I know they have a system down and the supply chain to feed it.

Since you marked it political, red states are the ones embracing wind power.

The problem that California will have with this one man dream of building huge wind generators is the leftist will not let it happen and sue to not have them built, because it will kill birds, disturb whales and threaten endangered species along with making their beaches ugly. They don't want to see them. NIMBY!


Meanwhile, the red states are part of the sustainable energy solutions and are the true environmentalist.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ bingo..
look at cape wind as a case study of the liberal greenies and NIMBY