Queen buys 7.5 megawatt wind turbine

The Crown Estate will own the world's largest wind turbine, a 7.5 MW monster manufactured by Clipper. From Treehugger:

The Britannia will be located in deep waters near the UK. This makes sense because the marine interests of The Crown Estate include almost the entire UK territorial seabed out to 12 nautical miles , about 55% of the UK’s coastal foreshore, and rights to lease seabed for the generation of renewable energy on the continental shelf within the Renewable Energy Zone which extends out to approximately 200 nautical miles..

For a whisper of what the scale of this thing will be, see the following picture—of Clipper's 2.5 MW model.

Queen of England buys world's biggest wind turbine [Treehugger]

[#1 posted by pete0r , June 12, 2008 5:39 AM]

Really neat picture there. Is there a place online that I could order a print?

[#2 posted by Rob Beschizza , June 12, 2008 7:25 AM]

Sorting out something reasonable now; if I can't find a place that'll do it cheap, I'll just send you the fill size file and you can take it to Kinkos! :)

[#3 posted by Rob Beschizza , June 12, 2008 10:09 AM]

Fuck it, all the online artist print gallery things look scammy. How big do you want it? I have a good 13x19 at home.