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Swaffham No 1 wind turbine.
If you look carefully you can see the viewing platform beneath the pod at the top of the tower. There are only two turbines in the world with viewing platforms - allegedly - and this is the only one open to the public.
25mph wind tonight so the blades were fairly zipping round, but contrary to common belief, the road noise from the adjacent A47 was much louder.
Generating about 1.2 MW tonight. Averaged 400kW over the last 10 years which shows the problem with wind generation. Only cost 1.2 million pounds which is £3000 per installed average kW - which is next to nothing. The energy used and financial debt created by construction was repaid in the first 6 months, now been operating 10 years.
It's so easy, why do we make it so difficult.