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afterburner on March 15, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Germany shuts down seven reactors‎ because of Foku...

A handful of square meters per windmill, unless it's off shore and then it's none (as in no land). You realize windmills for energy production dots the Danish landscape, placed in handfuls in the middle of farms, right?

foobarbazetc on March 16, 2011 [–]

Yeah, but Denmark has a population of 5.5 million people and ample land for them and windmills.

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