Fuhrländer Wind Turbine Laasow is a
wind turbine
A wind turbine is a device that wind power, converts the kinetic energy of wind into electrical energy. , hundreds of thousands of list of most powerful wind turbines, large turbines, in installations known as wind farms, were generating over ...
, built in 2006 by German wind turbine manufacturer Fuhrländer near the village of
Laasow,
Brandenburg
Brandenburg, officially the State of Brandenburg, is a States of Germany, state in northeastern Germany. Brandenburg borders Poland and the states of Berlin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Saxony. It is the List of Ger ...
,
Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...
. It consists of a
lattice tower
A lattice tower or truss tower is a freestanding vertical latticework, framework tower. This construction is widely used in transmission towers carrying high-voltage electric power lines, in radio masts and towers (a self-radiating tower or as a ...
, which carries a
rotor
ROTOR was an elaborate air defence radar system built by the British Government in the early 1950s to counter possible attack by Soviet bombers. To get it operational as quickly as possible, it was initially made up primarily of WWII-era syst ...
in diameter. Until two slightly
taller wind turbines opened in Poland in 2012,
this wind turbine was the
tallest wind turbine in the world. Its power output is 2.5 MW.
See also
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List of tallest buildings and structures in the world
This is the History of the world's tallest structures.
Overall
Below is a list of the tallest structures supported by land. For most of the period from around 2650 BC to 1240 AD, the Egyptian pyramids (culminating in the Great Pyramid of Giz ...
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Wind power in Germany
Wind power in Germany is a growing industry. The installed capacity was 55.6 gigawatts (GW) at the end of 2017, with 5.2 GW from offshore installations. In 2020, 23.3% of the country's total electricity was generated through wind po ...
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De Noord
(meaning 'the North') is a windmill located on the Noordvest 38 in Schiedam, Netherlands. It is the tallest windmill in the world with a roof height of and a wing span of . The mill is one of the five remaining windmills in Schiedam, and has be ...
, tallest traditional
windmill
A windmill is a machine operated by the force of wind acting on vanes or sails to mill grain (gristmills), pump water, generate electricity, or drive other machinery.
Windmills were used throughout the high medieval and early modern period ...
in the world
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De Nolet
(also known as ) is a wind turbine in Schiedam, Netherlands that is disguised as a traditional Schiedam windmill. has a tower height of and a gross height of including its rotor tips. The turbine's rated capacity is 150 kW.
It is hig ...
, tallest "windmill", but actually is a disguised
wind turbine
A wind turbine is a device that wind power, converts the kinetic energy of wind into electrical energy. , hundreds of thousands of list of most powerful wind turbines, large turbines, in installations known as wind farms, were generating over ...
References
External links
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Fuhrländer Wind Turbine diagramat
SkyscraperPage.com
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* - video illustrating the construction and operation of this wind turbine
Towers in Germany
Economy of Brandenburg
Wind turbines
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