Putting things in scale
| My initial thoughts when I heard about the windfarm, were “Great, – an excellent idea” then I saw just how big these things are.
In addition, according to the person from ScottishRenewables, they need to be placed laterally to the win direction 250m – 300m apart and in the wind direction 500m apart. So a wind farm of 10 126m high turbines will occupy an abosulte minimum of 500m x 1,200m, each one takes up the space of 20 football pitches – so the total farm will cover the area of over 200 football pitches At 126 m tall look at this: |
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