Queen Elizabeth Buys a Windmill

By Miss Cellania in Gadgets, Hacks & Mods on Sep 23, 2008 at 11:27 am

The Crown Estate of England has made arrangements to purchase the world’s largest wind turbine.

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 supersized 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.

The turbine is expected to be anchored offshore and put into use in 2012, when it will have the capability to power 3,700 homes. Link -Thanks, bob!


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  2. presto1775
    Sep 23rd, 2008 at 2:22 pm

    3,700 regular homes or Al Gore sized?

  3. Jimbo
    Sep 23rd, 2008 at 6:14 pm

    And Pickens got his commission for the sale!

  4. Angstrom
    Sep 23rd, 2008 at 7:31 pm

    just in case anyone is confused by that last sentence

    the turbine soars over Big Ben and roughly equals 111 Queen Elizabeths (the actual queen) plus one corgi

    these are Imperial units of measurement as used officially in the UK.

    5 corgis = 1 queen
    500 queens = 1 big ben
    128 big bens = 1 windsor

    etc.

  5. Pol x
    Sep 24th, 2008 at 4:41 am

    Queen of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

    Not Queen of England, although she is that too.

    A bit like saying George W Bush President of Idaho, although true, it sort of misses the larger reality.

  6. Pol x
    Sep 24th, 2008 at 8:52 am

    And I forgot to say, she should of course be Elizabeth Windsor privatre citizen of the Republic of Britain, the bloody parasite.

  7. Xinavera
    Sep 24th, 2008 at 4:47 pm

    Nice job leading by example. Can I buy myself a more modest sized windmill somewhere?

  8. Jill
    Sep 25th, 2008 at 3:47 pm

    I love the idea of using corgis as units of measurement.


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