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Chapter 9
Henrik Stiesdal
Siemens Wind Power, Borupvej 16, DK-7330 Brande, Denmark
henrik.siesdal@siemens.com
It was towards the end of 1976 that I began to take serious
interest in wind power. I got my A-level certificate in the same
year, and after a summer where I was doing various jobs I spent
the autumn doing England on my bicycle. When I returned from
my journey, a call up for the military was awaiting me. I was, how-
ever, not to be there until May 1977, and consequently I had the
rest of the winter and a bit of the spring available for doing sundry
jobs at my parents' farm near Vildbjerg between Herning and
Holstebro.
While I was away the initial work on the Tvind wind turbine
was reported in the newspapers, and in late December 1976 my
father and I went to Tvind for the first time, and like everybody else
we were fascinated by this group of evident amateurs who, from
something that looked like scratch, were building the world's
biggest wind turbine.
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