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Re:The U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100K people by maxerickson on Saturday April 22, 2017 @06:49PM (#14175312)
It's thick, rolled plate steel. The manufacturing process isn't amenable to the exquisite engineering you are imagining and steel is cheap.

They are pretty damn sure it is strong enough. It isn't the minimum material necessary to ensure that.

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