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fegeline 3 points ago +3 / -0

Great question, for what I know they use concrete all the way up to a few meters over the surface, and in any case there's gotta be a massive concrete foot to prevent the structure from tipping over.

These structures can be up to 150m tall, plus 50-100m for the wing. The old WTC twin towers was 400m tall. Burj Khalifa, tallest building in the world is 828m tall. All that for a maximum of 8MW, if it's windy.

A modern nuclear reactor gives an output between 1GW - 2GW