Construction of a wooden wind turbine tower at the Modvion factory in Gothenburg, Sweden, on July 3.
Photographer: Frederik Lerneryd/BloombergTimber Town
Startup Bets Wood Can Make Wind Turbines Even Greener
In the forests of western Sweden, a turbine of the future is taking cues from windmills of the past in a quest to be greener.
This article is part of the Bloomberg Green series Timber Town, which looks at the global rise of timber as a low-carbon building material.
A giant crane hoists a 40-ton chunk of turbine tower almost 200 feet (60 meters) in the air and then places it atop a half-finished structure. What’s different about this project is that it isn’t made from the usual ingredient: steel.