Understanding Wood Bonds – Going beyond what meets the eye [pdf] (2018)
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I think that would cause the economics behind wind turbines to be significantly different, as then the entire constructed unit could also likely double as a carbon credit-able sink.
Tensile Strength to Weight is the important measure here - but you can't just take a block of wood vs an equal weight block of steel and compare (if you did, wood actually wins). Steel can be formed into very efficient shapes that significantly lighten it, wood can't.
The same issue will arise here for use in a turbine - only worse, because the material they use even outperforms steel, and is very very carefully and efficiently designed.
(2MW isn’t cutting edge anymore for onshore turbines)
A lot of people look at the mega turbines because the bigger the turbine is, it reallllyyy tends to increase the scale of power you can get.
Maybe there's some auxillary value not to overlook wood tree smaller turbines (maybe for land use where harder to do mega turbines?) But I would imagine the peak material performance issue will restrict lumber from the mega turbines