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13 January 2008

A Wind Turbine Visit

"We thought it was worth the 300 step climb just to get closer to the inner workings of this machine. We can hardly hear it from the driveway, but coming up here closer, it sounds a bit like a faraway motorway, and it's going at full blast. It's actually very windy."
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