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Wow, thanks for posting. That really shades what they're going for differently, much more ambitious than I'd first thought.

So this will be bigger than 10MW that Vesta. Blades will almost certainly have to be >35t. For compare the largest turbine now is China's 16MW turbine (note that a couple m of the diameter is in the hub not the blades, but still):

> Goldwind’s GWH252-16MW intelligent wind turbine has a rotor diameter of 252 meters (827 feet)

https://electrek.co/2023/09/05/worlds-largest-wind-turbine-r...

And it supposedly even did product 16MW average across a day, once! Albeit ahhh, they ran it during a typhoon!

> On September 1, the 16 MW wind turbine came up against wind speeds of a peak of 53mph in the face of Typhoon Haikui,*



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