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If wind power is going to displace inexpensive fossil fuels, wind turbines need to get bigger — much bigger.

When it comes to building things, Eric Loth has his head in the clouds. This engineering professor at the University of Virginia wants to construct a wind turbine standing more than five times higher than the Statue of Liberty, with rotor blades longer than the Washington Monument is tall.

Not only that, the 1,650-foot-high mega-turbine would change along with the weather, bending its blades gracefully to cope with hurricane-strength winds. And all of this would happen dozens of miles out at sea.

Typical wind turbines are about 80 meters, or 260 feet, in height. Why build one so big?

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Mark Harris

A wind turbine turns in Saint-Guen, northwestern France.Jean-Francois Monier / AFP/Getty Images

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https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/super-colossal-wind-turbines-may-be-horizon-ncna789001

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