• pr06lefs@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    Trucking in ballast would work for the case where roads exist, but aren’t appropriate for a 100+ meter turbine blade. If no roads exist, you’d be stuck filling sandbags on site, pumping in water, or maybe shipping back felled trees or boulders. A hassle but not impossible. Worth it?

    Where huge turbine blades will come into their own (if they do) initially is in ocean based turbines. They can be manufactured at a port and go directly to a ship without navigating roads, so they won’t be limited by overpass height and so forth. If the large turbines are that much of an advantage, it should become apparent as sea installations evolve.

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      9 months ago

      If there is any way to match up new blades coming in with shipments of old blades or worn out components going back, that would be ideal.

      But also large bags of sea water would do the trick.