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Queen Elizabeth II buys world largest wind turbine - towers over Big Ben, to light up thousands of British homes


By WcP.Scientific.Mind - Posted on 03 October 2008

Elizabeth II, The Queen of England

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It's been a century or so since Britain ruled the waves, but Queen Elizabeth II will soon reign over the wind. Earlier this year the Crown Estate, which manages royal property worth $14 billion and controls the seas up to 14 miles off the British coast, agreed to purchase - for an undisclosed sum - the world's largest wind turbine.

the Queen of England is buying the world's largest wind turbine, which towers over Big Ben and will light up thousands of British homes

It's a 7.5-megawatt monster to be built by Clipper Windpower of Carpinteria, Calif. Now the Royal Turbine is getting even bigger: Clipper has revealed to Fortune that Her Majesty's windmill has been super-sized to ten megawatts, producing five times the power generated by typical big turbines currently in commercial operation. The giant's wingspan stretches the length of two soccer fields. At 574 feet, the turbine soars over Big Ben and roughly equals 111 Queen Elizabeths (the actual queen) plus one corgi stacked on top of one another.

Her Majesty The Queen at the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants with ACCA President John Brace

The Queen's turbine will displace two million barrels of oil as well as 724,000 tons of CO2 over its lifetime. This prototype will be the flagship for Clipper's Britannia Project, an effort to create a new generation of massive-megawatt turbines to be placed on deep-sea floating platforms. When the windmill goes online in 2012 somewhere off the British coast, it could power 3,700 average homes.

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Images courtesy of Fortune, ACCA, and Elite Choice

Original Source: Fortune

Wow! Queen Elizabeth II has bought the world's biggest wind turbine which can be used to light up thousands of British homes. I think there will be some people who may use commercial lighting suppliers to install light systems in their homes.

Wind turbines are just one of the ways to harness nature's power to generate energy. If possible, the Queen can also look into tidal energy. The are machines that harness the powerful force of waves and convert them into energy. Though they might not be as efficient as wind energy now, with a bit of investment from the Queen, I bet it could be the wave of the future, pun not intended.

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Wind turbines are used to generate electricity from the kinetic power of the wind. Historical they were more frequently used as a mechanical device to turn machinery.

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