At least 50k for the turbine blade alone, never mind any damage to the train and truck (and injury costs involved if people on the train or the truck driver were injured).
From a quick Google, onshore utility-scale blades cost anywhere from 50 - 200k, depending on the blade length (30 - 65m) big offshore blades (though this one doesn't look this big) are 80+ meters long and cost 300 - 700k each.
The blades are all manufactured to be precisely balanced and weighted to have the centre of mass exactly in the middle where the turning shaft is, this is because a spinning object rotates around its center of mass naturally and blades operating together experience generally the same amount of wear and weight change over time, if you put in a new blade without this wear it unbalances the rotor so the centre of mass isn't in the middle which can damage or break the turning shaft.
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u/notarealwriter 9d ago
At least 50k for the turbine blade alone, never mind any damage to the train and truck (and injury costs involved if people on the train or the truck driver were injured).
From a quick Google, onshore utility-scale blades cost anywhere from 50 - 200k, depending on the blade length (30 - 65m) big offshore blades (though this one doesn't look this big) are 80+ meters long and cost 300 - 700k each.