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World's tallest wooden wind turbine starts turning

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    Fisher, Jonah [Author]

    Publisher BBC News
    Year of publication 2023 December 28
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    Medium Digital
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    Generation of Electricity > Windpower
    Contemporary news > 2023
    Economics & commerce > Sustainability, behaviour and the environment

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    Renewable energy

    Scope & contentAccording to Modvion, the Swedish start-up that has just built the world's tallest wooden turbine tower, using wood for wind power is the future.

    "It's got great potential," Otto Lundman, the company's chief executive, says as we gaze upwards at the firm's brand new turbine, a short drive outside Gothenburg.

    It's 150m (492ft) to the tip of the highest blade and we are the first journalists to be invited to have a look inside. The 2 megawatt generator on top has just started supplying electricity to the Swedish grid, providing power for about 400 homes.

    The dream of Lundman and Modvion is to take the wood and wind much higher.
    Web URL https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67718719

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