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1 August 2014
The blades of today's wind turbines still have a decidedly low-tech material at their core - balsa wood. Like other manufactured products that use sandwich panel composites to achieve a combination of light weight and strength, turbine blades contain carefully arrayed strips of balsa wood from Ecuador, which provides 95% of the world's supply.