A Monster Wind Turbine Is Upending an Industry
G.E.’s giant machine, which can light up a small town, is stoking a renewable-energy arms race.Twirling above a strip of land at the mouth of Rotterdam’s harbor is a wind turbine so large it is difficult to photograph. The turning diameter of its rotor is longer than two American football fields end to end. Later models will be taller than any building on the mainland of Western Europe.
Packed with sensors gathering data on wind speeds, electricity output and stresses on its components, the giant whirling machine in the Netherlands is a test model for a new series of giant offshore wind turbines planned by General Electric. When assembled in arrays, the wind machines have the potential to power cities, supplanting the emissions-spewing coal- or natural gas-fired plants that form the backbones of many electric systems today.
G.E. has yet to install one of these machines in ocean water. As a relative newcomer to the offshore wind business, the company faces questions about how quickly and efficiently it can scale up production to build and install hundreds of the turbines.
But already the giant turbines have turned heads in the industry. A top executive at the world’s leading wind farm developer called it a “bit of a leapfrog over the latest technology.” And an analyst said the machine’s size and advance sales had “shaken the industry.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/01/business/GE-wind-turbine.html
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... if the click bait is to be believed.
But, yeah, that's a big turbine.
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Must make you smile - Happy New Year Mopinko 
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Not to mention the billions of birds each one kills every hour. 
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...With a height of 260 metres, the turbine reaches almost as high as the Eiffel Tower (300 metres). Each blade has a length of 107 metres; the longest blade being used so far is ‘only’ 88 metres. On a windy day, this turbine can produce enough electricity to supply 16,000 houses.
The next 4 years will be used for testing. The results will be used to build even taller and more powerful turbines in the future, especially in wind farms offshore. According to experts, increasing the size of turbines makes wind energy economically more attractive. At sea it is cheaper to build one foundation of a large turbine than two foundations of smaller types.
Source: https://www.climatechangepost.com/news/2019/8/18/the-netherlands-is-building-the-worlds-largest-win/
They believed it was the future for America ... back in the early-to-mid 1970's. Then Three Mile Island happened, remember that? GE knew that no more nuclear turbines would be built in the US after that. They probably still tried to build them in other countries, for a while. But no third world country could come up with the $ billions for just one nuclear turbine, so the entire nuke industry died.
Well it's 2021 and guess what? They have the technology for renewable energy that's non-fossil and non-polluting, but they've HAD THAT TECHNOLOGY all along. They just refused to support it or invest in it until now. It has taken GE almost 50 fucking years to finally see the light on renewable energy and wind turbines. Meanwhile our environment is destroyed almost beyond repair. Why is GE getting another chance? They'll make $ billions off these wind turbines, but start-up environmentalist companies will go bust.
