0 a tall structure with blades that are blown round by the wind and produce power to make electricity --
1 a large tall structure with blades (= large, flat pieces) that are blown around by the wind producing electrical energy: --
It is inevitable that a wind turbine will be singularly unreliable since the driving force behind it, the wind, is itself unreliable.
We could and should start to build wind turbine farms.
We must examine all renewable sources and concentrate not just on an inefficient one, which is the wind turbine.
Future wind turbine technology may make that system more efficient, so that fewer turbines are required.
However, estimates suggest that the area occupied by individual wind turbine towers can range between five and 20 square metres.
It should not be just an odd wind turbine here and there, or a pilot plant somewhere else.
Each proposed wind turbine installation is subject to some environmental evaluation prior to its construction.
At the moment, we have only one small wind turbine manufacturing plant, which has just been set up.
