The Energy Absurdity of the Week: New Wind Blade 'Solution' Will Have You Guffawing With Laughter

Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s Superman! It’s, it’s, it’s…a gigantic plane carrying - wait for it - wind blades????

I know some of y’all think I make this stuff up, but I swear I really do not do that. Seriously - who could?

In a story from AVWeb that reads like something invented by the parody geniuses from the Babylon Bee, a fellow named Russ Niles gives us the details behind the latest ‘solution’ for the struggling wind industry: how to deliver individual blades that are 320’ long and weigh 40,000 lbs each that are too big and too heavy to be transported by truck or even on trains.