From BusinessWeek:
When glimpsed from afar, the huge wind turbines look impossibly silent. Eleven machines, with 34-meter-long rotor blades, have been erected on the fringe of a large recreational park in Shanghai’s Nanhui district, about 34 kilometers from the international airport in Pudong.
Each of the General Electric-made units can generate 1.5 megawatts (MW) of power an hour. Standing 65m above ground, these giants dwarf the Shanghai Wind Power Museum. It was built to commemorate the facility that surrounds it, one of the city’s first wind farms.
Inside the museum you are treated to a short video presentation detailing the imminent disasters facing the world unless renewable energy is embraced. Wind power, naturally, is presented as an ideal choice. The World Bank was suitably convinced by such arguments, investing US$13 million in the Nanhui project, which was set up in 2006.
