This one is over 1/8 mile wide (span) and almost a quarter-mile high.
There was a good video showing the Vestas build process in that article.
Here’s one explaining Musk company work processes / ethics / methods … Joe Justice, Wikispeed - Everyone Must Be a Chief Engineer at SpaceX | Iteration22 - YouTube
Which company would be a better AWES maker?
Chinese 18 MW turbine:
China test for 30MW wind turbines as green power ‘arms race’ goes on
Chinese industrial group Sany claimed a new test facility is the first of its kind able to handle blades for 30MW wind turbines, in another sign that China is unlikely to call a halt to the industry’s ‘arms race’ over ever more powerful machines.
The group’s Sany Renewable Energy unit said a newly-commissioned dual-axis ground-based exciter, which simulates the forces facing blades in operation, can fatigue-test the 100-metre-plus blades now entering the market.
“This is the first integrated test for fatigue testing of ultra-long blades in China, satisfying the verification demands for blade performance of 30MW-class wind turbines,” said Sany RE, which earlier this year unveiled a 131-metre blade claimed to be the longest ever produced for onshore wind.
A LinkedIn post about this giant wind turbine:
And also @ChristianH 's comment:
I’ve been trying to get this point across with airborne wind energy, our goal is to leverage the cubic relation ship of wind speed and power
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This question of whether turbines could reasonably be built bigger has been in place for the entire duration of modern windfarms. It always seems that the limit has been reached, but then they become even bigger. I remember when a GE 1.5 MW turbine seemed so huge nobody could believe it. Now they are considered small. 