Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Harvesting the Wind Energy

Last Sunday we went north and passed a small city called Lelystad. Its one hour drive from the Hague. Lelystad, built on reclaimed land, is approximately 5 meters below sea level. The big part of the whole area called the province of Flevoland is surrounded by lots of water – famous ones are the Markermeer and IJsselmeer. Also by woodlands, parks and flat farmland.

This is also the location for the largest number of wind turbines in the Netherlands used for the generation of wind power electricity. In the whole of Netherlands there are now more than 1800 of these wind turbines built mainly onshore but lately also in the offshore. These wind turbines are real awesome structures when seen close.

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