Germany Is Building the World's Tallest Wind Turbine (translate.goog)
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- News link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/07/16/2120247/germany-is-building-the-worlds-tallest-wind-turbine
- Source link: https://www-heise-de.translate.goog/news/Gross-wie-der-Berliner-Fernsehturm-Baubeginn-fuer-das-hoechste-Windrad-der-Welt-10488726.html
> Heise, a German IT news publisher, [2]reports ( [3]English version via Google Translate ) that the German state of Brandenburg is getting the world's tallest wind turbine, with an overall height of 300 meters (approximately 365 meters including rotor blades), designed to capture so-called third-level winds at higher altitudes. The article also includes a [4]short 3D animation illustrating the construction and its size relative to standard modern wind turbines.
The wind turbine uses a dual-framework base instead of a traditional closed tower to access stronger high-altitude winds, aiming to match offshore energy output while keeping onshore operating costs.
According to Heise, the prototype could lead to the installation of up to 1,000 units across Germany -- fitting seamlessly between existing wind farms without needing extra land.
[1] https://slashdot.org/~Qbertino
[2] https://www.heise.de/news/Gross-wie-der-Berliner-Fernsehturm-Baubeginn-fuer-das-hoechste-Windrad-der-Welt-10488726.html
[3] https://www-heise-de.translate.goog/news/Gross-wie-der-Berliner-Fernsehturm-Baubeginn-fuer-das-hoechste-Windrad-der-Welt-10488726.html?_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=de&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
[4] https://www-rbb24-de.translate.goog/panorama/beitrag/2025/07/schipkau-brandenburg-bau-300-meter-windrad.html?_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=de&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Science fiction panoramas coming (Score:1)
> fitting seamlessly between existing wind farms without needing extra land
Yep, they only need extra sky area and will look even beter in our future dystopian panoramic landscape views.
Old lanscape painting will double in value soon.
Re:Science fiction panoramas coming (Score:5, Insightful)
Funny thing about this, I remember seeing lots of paintings of landscapes including windmills back in the day.
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"Dystopian"? You think accelerating climate change is better?
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Well, apparently this is about making things look less like paintings.
And its well known that dirty skies have better sunsets.
We can sit in our airconditioned hellboxes while the world collapses and marvel at the beautiful sunset. Utopia!
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If anyone doubted what leaded gasoline did to developing minds.
Slightly sensible (Score:3)
I'm not a huge fan of windmills, but this does seem like a better idea than offshore turbines. It does of course use vastly more material per MWh than a standard onshore turbine,even allowing for the higher availability. I very much like that it can be installed among existing wind turbines rather than destroying even more woodland and farms.
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I see what you did there, you're not a "fan" of "windmills"!
Birds, schmirds (Score:2, Funny)
We're not stopping until we can slice and dice a 737.
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I'm no birdologist but wouldn't having it higher protect more birds? And larger slower moving blades would be less dangerous too? Not to mention that wind power kills far less birds than the pollution from other types of energy production does.
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It is actually not much of a risk to birds. Higher means more wind and steadier wind.
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> It is actually not much of a risk to birds.
Wind turbines kill a negligible number of birds.
The "bird issue" is FUD from the fossil fuel industry.
Global warming is a far bigger threat to birds.
> Higher means more wind and steadier wind.
Power output increases as the cube of the wind speed.
Double the wind speed, and power production goes up by a factor of eight.
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The fossil fuel industry doesn't care about wind turbines. The main impediment is NIMBYs.
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> I'm no birdologist but wouldn't having it higher protect more birds? And larger slower moving blades would be less dangerous too? Not to mention that wind power kills far less birds than the pollution from other types of energy production does.
All of which could very well be true. What people are tired of, is the marketing crapola about how pure and simple newer power solutions are. The reality paints a very different picture. From construction demands to actual lifespans to lack of recycling.
Another example is EV marketing. When we tell people that EVs are practically maintenance free in order to sell the idea of EVs, it only makes it way more dangerous for the rest of us on the road when the gullible EV owner drives it down to the bald tire
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Another funny thing is people never worried about all that stuff till oil companies brought it up in their fight against clean energy. No one ever said, how do we recycle this coal burning power plant or how dangerous a 6000 pound SUV was.
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Quite amusing how people that gave zero fucks about wildlife and pollution are suddenly very concerned with birds and fiberglass blades in a landfill.
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