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This tiny home is made from a repurposed wind turbine

This video is part of: Centre for Energy and Materials

It’s built from the nacelle, or control box, of a Vattenfall turbine which stood in an Austrian wind farm for 20 years. Most wind farm nacelles today are much larger. But a team from architecture collective Superuse Studios, working with Blade-Made, chose one of the smallest to prove that the concept of a tiny turbine home could work.

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