Each blade on Vestas's V236 offshore turbine is 115.5 metres long, longer than a football pitch, and one machine sweeps 43,742 square metres of sky to produce up to 80 gigawatt-hours a year; more than 12 gigawatts of them are already on order
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Each blade on Vestas's V236 offshore turbine is 115.5 metres long, longer than a football pitch, and one machine sweeps 43,742 square metres of sky to produce up to 80 gigawatt-hours a year; more than 12 gigawatts of them are already on order Science Blog