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Startup bets wood can make wind turbines even greener

Swedish startup Modvion is building a wind turbine tower out of wood, aiming to reduce the carbon footprint by more than 90%.
The outside tower is painted in a steel gray color, but the inside is untreated, with the Finnish spruce wood grain on full display. | Photo: PR / Modvion
The outside tower is painted in a steel gray color, but the inside is untreated, with the Finnish spruce wood grain on full display. | Photo: PR / Modvion
By Lars Paulsson / Bloomberg

A giant crane hoists a 40-ton chunk of turbine tower almost 200 feet (60 meters) in the air and then places it atop a half-finished structure. What’s different about this project is that it isn’t made from the usual ingredient: steel.

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