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title: Windmills Can Be Big
date: 2009-10-30T01:01:04Z
modified: 2009-10-30T01:01:04Z
permalink: "https://350.org/windmills-can-be-big/"
type: post
status: publish
excerpt: "The banner on this one in Hull Massachusetts USA is big, but you have to look a little to see it:"
wpid: 13720
author: Bill McKibben
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The banner on this one in Hull Massachusetts USA is big, but you have to look a little to see it: ![](https://farm3.static.flickr.com/2505/4036980661_10d87d8d19.jpg)

Here’s a banner on the base of another tower, so show you their girth: Jim Morgan, John Hail Jr., and Troy Carpenter, with a GE 1.5 megawatt wind turbine used for hands-on training at the North American Wind Research and Training Center on Mesalands Community College campus in Tucumcari, New Mexico.

![](https://farm3.static.flickr.com/2676/4039257467_2a85625458.jpg)