The Switch

Anna Lydia and Jasmin wrote:
On Friday, the 15th of October, we made a trip to a wind energy firm called The Switch. We were told about wind energy and wind turbines and what it is all about using renewable energy. We also visited the place were they make parts of wind turbines.
The world's biggest wind turbine is in Germany. It is over 100 m high. Mostly the turbines are 100 m or less. In Finland there are not many wind turbines so far, only about 2% of Finland's energy comes from wind power. We were also told how the wind energy develop.
The parts of wind turbine are very heavy. We thought that parts are small but they were huge! The Switch doesn't make the whole turbines, only certain parts. The Switch sells parts to the factories which build wind turbines.
After a while buss came and took us back to school.

(picture on the left: a slide show, picture on the right: Miika Reinikka explains us the function of a wind turbine)