Giant wind turbine blade transported on steep ridge in China
A nearly 100-meter-long wind turbine blade, weighing 36 tons, is making its way along a steep mountain ridge at an altitude of 1,800 meters in Chongqing, China.
A nearly 100-meter-long wind turbine blade, weighing 36 tons, is making its way along a steep mountain ridge at an altitude of 1,800 meters in Chongqing, China.
Transporting a wind turbine blade this huge is an engineering challenge on its own — but moving it through tight mountain roads takes extreme precision, planning, and nerves of steel. These...
Workers in China have been filmed navigating a perilous path on a hillside road in Sichuan to deliver a 19-ton, 75-metre long wind turbine blade. Footage shows the giant blade slowly swing...
This is the moment a fleet of trucks move several gigantic wind turbine blades to the top of a mountain range in China.
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One of the challenges for its construction is to transport the giant wind turbines to the mountaintops. Each truck needs to carry a wind turbine blade that is 75 meters long and weighs 19
Giant wind turbines are a common sight in the countryside, and we''ve occasionally seen them being transported on long flatbeds. But getting their enormous fan blades up a mountain along
Check out this video of a huge wind turbine blade traversing a narrow mountain road in China – but you might want to watch through your fingers.
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