turbine
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The windswept community is home to historic mill houses and a new low-income housing complex right next to where the turbine components will be stacked and assembled.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
"An electric car contains 80 kg of copper, compared with 20 kg in a conventional one," he notes, while "a wind turbine contains between four and ten tons of copper per megawatt."
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
"In the beginning, it was a shipyard. We built a good dozen ships a year. Now we build dozens of wind turbine towers. It's quite different," she said.
From Barron's • Mar. 7, 2026
These produce renewable electricity by harnessing the energy of flowing water with a turbine, pump, or waterwheel.
From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026
He imagined her as, say, Mrs. Cobb, swooping out from behind her picket fence with eyes aflame, calling down the turbine perflant upon a minister’s son who threw rocks.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
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