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EUROPE
SP A I N G E R M ANY
Motorway maze SPAIN Wind power GERMANY
The A-3 and M-50 motorways converge Components of a wind turbine are
in an ornate knot on the outskirts of assembled like a model rocket kit in the
Madrid, Spain. The system was built to fields of Jacobsdorf in eastern Germany.
accommodate commuters travelling to The country is installing more wind
and from Rivas-Vaciamadrid, one of the farms as it phases out its 17 nuclear
most populous areas outside the city Madrid reactors and its dependence on coal
centre. Similar ‘spaghetti junctions’ power. Around a third of the country’s
exist in cities around the world, the energy needs currently come from Jacobsdorf
term originating from Birmingham’s renewables, and it aims to cut carbon
Gravelly Hill Interchange on the M6. SPAIN emissions by 40 per cent by 2020. GERMANY
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