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by tomek_ycomb 856 days ago
As it stands the turbine blades are pretty much peak athletes. There's extremely little room for less than the perfect material in the mega turbines.

A lot of people look at the mega turbines because the bigger the turbine is, it reallllyyy tends to increase the scale of power you can get.

Maybe there's some auxillary value not to overlook wood tree smaller turbines (maybe for land use where harder to do mega turbines?) But I would imagine the peak material performance issue will restrict lumber from the mega turbines