Windpower Prop, Seen Close Up, Is Massive

If you drive on the interstate with any frequency in the midwest, these sightings are pretty commonplace on the I80/I35 corridors. Still pretty cool to see up close though. I think the one pictured is quite a bit larger than your average turbine blade though.

Plus - notice how light it is. Only two axes on a trailer are enough.

You can see these nearly any give Sunday @ I-35 and US-75. Nearly every Sunday while traveling on I-35 I see trucks hauling these parked along side the highway at the truck stop that is at that junction.

Wait till they start making the blades out of carbon nanotubes.

Aren't they already carbon fiber? I live new Kansas City and see train fulls of them quite often.

I live in Bloomington, IL and they built a wind farm a few miles east of town a couple years ago. They would drive right down Business 55 through the main part of town and then head east out ow town with the blades. At first I thought they were airplane wings they were so big. After see a few go through, I realized they were windmill props. They're absolutely massive and when you see them on the windmill you don't realize how big they really are.

Whoever took that photo needs to fixed his cracked windshield.