It takes a lot of energy to keep the lights on as you greedily pile ¢59 kitchen dongles and weird cookies into that blue bag, which is why Ikea is making a push to offset its total energy consumption by 2020. This week, it took a big step towards doing so by buying a wind farm in Illinois.
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The World’s Biggest Wind Turbine Blades Are So Long Their Tips Spin at 180 MPH [Monster Machines]
Posted in: Today's Chili For off-shore wind farms to become an economically feasible alternative energy source, each turbine needs to be big. Like, really big. That’s why the latest turbine blade from Siemens is gigantic—just a hair shorter than the wingspan of an Airbus 380. More »