The sea-based turbines are even more massive-63 meters high (not including the spike pounded into the seafloor beneath the waves) with 40-meter blades. The land-based turbines are 50 meters tall with blades that stretch some 27 meters from end to end. "If you own a share in a wind turbine it looks better, it sounds better," he says. Some people see wind turbines as eyesores or complain about the sound of their whirring blades, but Soren Hermansen, chief proselytizer for the island's renewable energy experiment and director of the Samso Energy Academy, disagrees.
That's good news for Samso's 4,000 or so inhabitants, seeing as they own shares in 20 of the 21 turbines that either tower over the island or rise from the offshore waters of the Kattegat Strait, which connects the Baltic and North seas. TRANEBJERG, Samso, Denmark-It can seem as if the icy, cutting wind off the North Sea never stops blowing on this Danish island in winter, bending back the grass, whipping straight the flags, and setting mammoth wind turbines to their stately spinning.
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