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VIDEO: Piecing Together a Wind Turbine, Blade By Blade
Parts for the new wind turbine, the third turbine to be built in Portsmouth, arrived last Friday at Hodges Badge from India.
Ever wonder what a wind turbine looks like before it's actually constructed?
That's exactly what visitors and employees might have seen if they stopped by the East Main Road company late last week.
Hodges is in the process of constructing a wind turbine, which will be the third turbine constructed within the town of Portsmouth. The two existing turbines are located at and the .
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Once constructed, electricity generated from this nearly 150-foot-tall turbine is expected to provide 100 percent of the manufacturing plant's energy supply.
On Friday, parts of the future wind turbine arrived from India. While the company waits for more parts, the turbine is expected to be constructed in just a few weeks.
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Rick Hodges, president of Hodges Badge, talks about the process and the turbine's parts in the video featured above.
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