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Longest wind turbine blade heads to Copenhagen
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pangea on 24/11/2009 16:38:00
 
The 61.5m long LM 61.5 P blade, manufactured by fiberglass wind turbine blade
company LM Glasfiber, will greet the world's leaders at the COP15 conference in
December. The blade was installed at the main entrance of the Bella Center in
Copenhagen as part of the Wind Power Works Campaign in collaboration with GWEC,
the Global Wind Energy Council and Vindmølleindustrien, the Danish wind
industry association.
The campaign aims to demonstrate the development that has taken place within the
wind industry, claiming that 25 years ago the largest wind turbines had blades
with a diameter of 15m and were only capable of producing 50kW of electricity.
Today, the largest mass-produced wind turbine has a rotor diameter of 126m,
sweeps the near-equivalent of two football pitches and produces 5MW a year.