Good thing Don Quixote isn't around...

"Now look, your grace," Said Sancho, "what you see over there aren't giants, but windmills, and what seems to be arms are just their sails, that go around in the wind."

"Obviously," replied Don Quixote, "you don't know much about adventure."

-Miguel de Cervantes , Don Quixote

Today I played tour guide to one of my friend's friends, confusing I know, but Triin had class so she asked me if I could show her friend, Isabel, around the city.  While on our city tour we came across this ship:

Thankfully there was a nice Danish man who could tell us what it was for.  This ship is for building the offshore wind turbine fields.  Which as soon as I got home I started doing a little research on.  First off this ship is called the Pacific Orca.  It is currently the largest ship of its kind.  It can carry parts for 12 wind turbines.  Also the ship has six jack-up legs that fasten to the seabed while it is working.  The ship has 111 single cabins for the crew.  Although you can't really see how big the ship is it is actually 527.9 ft long.  If you want to read more about the ship here is a good website:

see the ship actually lifts out of the water to build the wind turbines. 

Denmark was actually a pioneer of wind power in the 1970's.  Today 50% of the wind turbines around the world are produced by Danish manufacturers such as Vestas and Siemens Wind Power.   

Not only does Denmark have a lot of onshore wind turbines they also have a huge number of offshore wind farms.  

This video is of Horns Rev 2, or Horns Reef 2.  When inaugurated in 2009 it was the largest offshore wind farm in the world.  It is located 19 miles off the Westernmost point of Denmark in the North Sea.  The wind farm has 91 wind turbines.  Horns Rev 2 is also the first offshore wind farm to have an accommodation platform named Poseidon.  Poseidon has 24 rooms, a gym, kitchen, dining room, laundry room, and a study room (not quite sure what a study room would be used for since I would think these guys don't exactly have tests to study for or anything.) Also the video is just pretty.  

So I know this post isn't that exciting for most of you but I can promise that for at least the next week my father will be watching youtube videos of wind turbines being built offshore, so this post I guess is only for him, but hopefully the rest of you will feel slightly more knowledgeable about wind turbines or at the very least you watched a pretty video of windmills hanging out in the water.