Tuesday 13 July 2010

Huge wind farm parts shipped from Fife.


Huge steel foundations each weighing as much as 80 elephants are being shipped from Fife to an offshore wind farm.

Energy company, Vattenfall, is ready to take delivery of the first four of 31 steel foundations for its 150 megawatt Ormonde Offshore Wind Farm.

The structures will be as high as two giraffes and each turbine blade weighing a wildebeest.
A spokesman for Vattenfall said today "This is our biggest undertaking to date our last structure was highland cow weight."

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