You may have noticed in the news yesterday that Europe's largest onshore wind farm, Whitelee in Scotland, is about to get bigger.
They've been given permission to install another 75 turbines, increasing the overall output to 539 MW.
The publicity should be good for their new visitor centre as well, which I've had in the back of my mind to visit but unfortunately it's not served by public transport. Surely there's scope for a free bus from Kilmarnock train station?
And all this comes as we discover that the UK's wind farms produced record output on Monday - 5% of the whole day's electricity to the grid. A start, as I said when renewables provided 100% of power to the North of Scotland last week.
But if you can't make it to Whitelee, then why not the next best thing: YouTube! And in this video you can hear just how windy it is...and see just how big the turbines are when you're standing right underneath one:
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