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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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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

50,000 square meters (nearly 540,000 square feet)

That's approximately 4 square Walmarts

[–] Tyfud 9 points 2 years ago

Finally, someone posts the American units.

[–] 6xpipe_ 4 points 2 years ago

You know, we Americans take a lot of shit for our measurements (anything but metric), but this really does put the numbers into a perspective that the article’s image just can’t convey.

[–] cicadagen 3 points 2 years ago

or 1.2355 square furlongs