{"id":116,"date":"2026-02-10T12:40:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T17:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpdev.acsu.buffalo.edu\/esdrg\/?page_id=116"},"modified":"2026-02-10T12:40:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T17:40:48","slug":"wind-turbine-taller-empire-state","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/jhall186\/media\/wind-turbine-taller-empire-state\/","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s Largest Wind Turbine Would Be Taller Than the Empire State Building (quoted 2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Massive, flexible blades would bend with storm winds like the palm trees that inspired them<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>June 2017 <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/world-rsquo-s-largest-wind-turbine-would-be-taller-than-the-empire-state-building\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Scientific American<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" src=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/jhall186\/files\/2019\/10\/6C551114-7B9E-46E6-A461C1F2D4BDC0FF_source.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/jhall186\/files\/2019\/10\/6C551114-7B9E-46E6-A461C1F2D4BDC0FF_source.jpg 590w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/jhall186\/files\/2019\/10\/6C551114-7B9E-46E6-A461C1F2D4BDC0FF_source-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Examples of other reporting outlets: <a href=\"https:\/\/renewsable.net\/2017\/06\/27\/biggest-wind-turbine-world-eclipse-empire-state-building\/?fb_comment_id=1340674646046545_1344186782361998\">Renewsable<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/engineering.buffalo.edu\/mechanical-aerospace\/news-and-events.host.html\/content\/shared\/engineering\/home\/articles\/2017-media-coverage\/world_s-largest-wind-turbine-would-be-taller-than-the-empire-sta.detail.html\">University at Buffalo Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering<\/a><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massive, flexible blades would bend with storm winds like the palm trees that inspired them June 2017 Scientific American Examples of other reporting outlets: Renewsable, University at Buffalo Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":306,"featured_media":0,"parent":67,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-116","page","type-page","status-publish","czr-hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/jhall186\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/jhall186\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/jhall186\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/jhall186\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/jhall186\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/jhall186\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2315,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/jhall186\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116\/revisions\/2315"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/jhall186\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/jhall186\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}