Huge wind turbine set up in Pacific off Chiba Pref.

Huge wind turbine set up in Pacific off Chiba Pref.

CHOSHI, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Oct. 22, 2012, shows a 126-meter-high wind turbine built in the Pacific some 3 kilometers off Choshi, Chiba Prefecture, which was shown to reporters the same day before it starts power generation possibly in January 2013. Its output will be around 2,400 kilowatt-hours. A downtown area of the city can be seen in the back.

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