Definition of wind turbine
: a wind-driven turbine for generating electricity
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Recent Examples on the Web The vessel will be engineered, constructed and operated by ECO, serving as an at-sea base of operations to accommodate and transfer technicians, tools and parts to and from individual wind turbine generators.
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NOLA.com, "New Orleans Business Briefs for Oct. 11, 2020," 11 Oct. 2020 In the 2019 session, South Texas Democrat Terry Canales put forward a bill that would require wind turbine operators to adhere to certain bonding requirements for land restoration work when, eventually, the turbine is removed.
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Popular Science, "The pandemic could end Texas’s oil boom—and start something better," 5 Oct. 2020 Slashing humanity’s reliance on fossil fuels will require billions of kilograms of metal: a single wind turbine can contain more than a metric ton of copper, and electric car batteries demand heaps of cobalt, nickel and manganese.
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Daniel Ackerman, Scientific American, "Deep-Sea Mining: How to Balance Need for Metals with Ecological Impacts," 31 Aug. 2020 The unusual home was a project of the Water Foundation, which invested $1.75 million into packing the home with 20 conservation technologies, including solar panels, two geothermal systems and a wind turbine.
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Kim Palmer, Star Tribune, "This Geodesic dome home in the woods of Brainerd is packed with green technology," 28 Aug. 2020 The 300-foot-tall wind turbine is a rare sight in a state best known for its long and rich history in coal mining.
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Hunter Holcombe, CBS News, "The fight over green jobs in coal country: "We can become important again"," 10 May 2019 In fact, the fastest growing occupation in the U.S., according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, is wind turbine service technician, with a median salary of about $53,000 per year.
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Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, "As fossil fuel jobs falter, renewables come to the rescue," 25 Sep. 2020 Watch as builders dig, frame, and fill the foundation for a 250-foot wind turbine.
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Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, "Watch Contractors Hypnotically Build an Entire Wind Turbine Farm," 21 Sep. 2020 If someone clicks on a search at 3 AM, Google will find the electricity to power that query from a battery, wind turbine, solar panel, hydroelectric dam, or some other carbon-free technology at that precise moment.
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Michael J. Coren, Quartz, "Google made clean energy cool for corporations, and it’s about to do the same for batteries," 17 Sep. 2020
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The first known use of wind turbine was in 1909
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