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Nature 447, 1046-1048 (28 June 2007) | doi:10.1038/4471046a; Published online 27 June 2007
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Abstract
How did a little Spanish province become one of the world's wind-energy giants? Daemon Fairless reports.
From a wheatfield overlooking the village of Iratxeta in the Spanish region of Navarre, you can appreciate the unique countryside and its contrasts: the pale green of ripening grain setting off the dark-green mountain forests behind, country houses newly rebuilt on medieval foundations, and giant wind turbines, brilliantly white and strikingly erect, their slowly moving blades driven by the breeze that ripples the wheat."That was the first one," says José Roman Gómez, pointing south to the Guerinda wind park, a phalanx of turbines running along the ridge of a nearby hill.
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