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The World’s Largest Wind Turbine Has Been Switched On (www.iflscience.com)
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The World’s Largest Wind Turbine Has Been Switched On::It’s turbo time.

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[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does make me wonder if they mean an average. Like if the lifespan of the turbine is 50 years or whatever, so instead of saying 720 homes for 50 years they say 36,000 for one year to make it sound more impressive?

[–] Decr@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Going by their estimate of 36.000 households and the Dutch average yearly household usage of 3.500KWh that would be 126.000 MWh per year. One turbine is rated for a continuous output of 16MW which assuming it runs continuously, would give you 16x24x365= 140.160 MWh in a year.

I would assume they actually mean 36.000 households yearly assuming average weather conditions.