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Is there any reason why wind turbines are white?

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Wind turbines are one of those "love 'em or hate 'em" objects in life. Although some people do appreciate them as beautiful structures, from an industrial design point of view, many others don't. Whatever your opinion on them have you ever wondered why they paint wind turbines white? read more

As has already been mentioned, wind turbines are most often white because of aesthetics. In Germany I have seen many gray ones made by Enercon. I've also seen towers that were painted green from the ground up about a third of the way to the top. Germany also requires red stripes on the rotor blades. read more

True, a dark color will absorb more heat than a white color - but the temperature difference will be slight and the resultant difference of thermal expansion will be practically negligible. Particularly if we use any lighter shades of color, there will be hardly any difference. read more

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