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Captured on video: The moment a wind turbine exploded in gales
Daily Mail ^ | 2/25/2008

Posted on 02/25/2008 6:12:29 AM PST by Uncledave

Follow link to see old NEG-Micon machine going kablooie.

When winds get too strong, modern machines' blades pitch out of the wind, and the rotor is braked. (The old one in the video should have been braked as well - unclear why that failed).

I respect that many here oppose wind energy, but safety concerns isn't a strong argument for that case. Let's all please recognize that accidents can and do happen in any area of the energy industry.


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: energy; wind
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To: Eaker

ping


21 posted on 02/25/2008 6:30:15 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Uncledave
I respect that many here oppose wind energy

Oppose? I doubt any here do. We just oppose 'this is the silver bullet of energy solution' type retoric that we know to be false. I am all for any type of energy and I am all against my taxes funding fads.
22 posted on 02/25/2008 6:32:32 AM PST by TalonDJ
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To: Uncledave
When winds get too strong, modern machines' blades pitch out of the wind, and the rotor is braked

Brake in high speed wind? I thought you said it was supposed to break in a high speed wind. < /confused engineer mode>

23 posted on 02/25/2008 6:37:46 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Rattenschadenfreude: joy at a Democrat's pain, especially Hillary's pain caused by Obama.)
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To: w1andsodidwe

Maybe that’s because they haven’t come up with a solution, that doesn’t have more cons than pros yet.


24 posted on 02/25/2008 6:38:36 AM PST by stuartcr (Election year.....Who we gonna hate, in '08?)
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To: Uncledave

Great pix. That and the ice cap GROWING, I am just sort of getting a great laugh from.


25 posted on 02/25/2008 6:46:17 AM PST by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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According to the article, Denmark gets about 20% of its energy from these windmills. I think that’s pretty good! We just got a windmill plant here in central Arkansas and I am pleased about its future impact on our state’s “backwards” economy.


26 posted on 02/25/2008 6:49:25 AM PST by Arkansas Toothpick
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To: Uncledave

Looks pretty dangerous to be around all the flying debris. They need to put these things in places like Cape Cod Bay to keep them from possibly harming children.


27 posted on 02/25/2008 6:49:28 AM PST by Rb ver. 2.0 (Global warming is the new Marxism.)
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Oh, but Uncle Dave, those dangerous windmills will chop up the dolphins swimming in the beautiful sea!! Alack, the horror!


28 posted on 02/25/2008 6:50:26 AM PST by Arkansas Toothpick
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To: Hazcat
I saw on a Discovery channel program about a month ago that they are developing ones that look like a DNA string that is supposed to be able to handle any wind.

I understand they can replicate themselves as well.

29 posted on 02/25/2008 6:54:27 AM PST by SlowBoat407 (Just how will wrecking the U.S. economy save the planet?)
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To: Uncledave

Thanks!


30 posted on 02/25/2008 6:56:00 AM PST by DungeonMaster (WELL I SPEAK LOUD, AND I CARRY A BIGGER STICK, AND I USE IT TOO!)
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31 posted on 02/25/2008 7:09:38 AM PST by eureka! (This primary has turned into a real depressing experience. *sigh*)
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To: w1andsodidwe
There is no solution that will ever please the leftist.

You're exaggerating - there's a solution that will please Leftists! It's called extinction. Get rid of man, no more harm for Earth! If we just all die, then things will be OK...

32 posted on 02/25/2008 7:16:39 AM PST by PugetSoundSoldier (Indignation over the sting of truth is the defense of the indefensible)
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To: Izzy Dunne
>>I respect that many here oppose wind energy,

What an asinine statement.

Calm down Francis. People can be wrong without being 'asinine'.

33 posted on 02/25/2008 7:18:57 AM PST by Dr._Joseph_Warren
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To: eureka!

ping


34 posted on 02/25/2008 7:20:43 AM PST by Graycliff (Long haired freaky people, need not apply.)
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To: Uncledave

Wind power is so stupid and wasteful. Nuclear, dammit.


35 posted on 02/25/2008 7:22:52 AM PST by montag813
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To: Uncledave

You mean for 1.8 million dollars apiece they don’t last forever? /s


36 posted on 02/25/2008 7:38:54 AM PST by hadaclueonce (shoot low, they are riding Shetlands..)
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To: thackney
with an in-built break system

The system appeared to work as designed!

37 posted on 02/25/2008 7:42:22 AM PST by Eaker (If illegal immigrants were so great for an economy; Mexico would be building a wall to keep them in)
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To: Eaker

I believe we had a windmill issue in Pennsylvania last year. Blades flew off. The German compnay that made the thing was looking at the problem


38 posted on 02/25/2008 7:45:00 AM PST by oldironsides
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To: Uncledave
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I respect that many here oppose wind energy,
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A free market only respects the benefits and costs of a particular approach.

The left loves to scold the rest of us that the US consumer is not paying the “full, true, price” of oil. By this, they imply that the retail price of oil-based products must carry an open tax burden associated with the cost of the US military used to protect oil supplies.

At the very same time, the left urges all sorts of tax advantaged treatments for other forms of energy. Tax credits for solar and wind. A law for nuclear power that picks up the cost of any large-scale disaster. We even allow our own farm policy to be subverted by the whopping 51 cents per gallon subsidy for ethanol, not to mention the grants, yes, the millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions in “grants”, each of which distorts economic decisions.

For example:

“...On January 29, Department of Energy officials announced up to $30 million in supplemental funding for the planned facility. The project includes participation from academic institutions, government and other technology providers.

The Energy Department will invest up to $114 million over four years in the biorefinery projects with the goal of making cellulosic ethanol cost-competitive in five years. Other funding recipients include Lignol Innovations, Inc.; Pacific Ethanol, Inc.; and Stora Enso, North America.

Announcing the funding, Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said, “Advanced biofuels offer tremendous promise for helping our nation to bring about a new, cleaner, more secure and affordable energy future.”

from:
www.ens-newswire.com/ens/feb2008/2008-02-19-096.asp

So, we pay for energy twice: with the economic distortions that only increase inefficiency and the tax subsidies that are paid for in only one of three ways: taxing, inflating or borrowing.

While this is going on, government further distorts the cost and availability of fuels by making vast areas of energy supplies off limits, such as offshore drilling and ANWAR.

Let us not complete the insult by saying that since some market distortions are taking place, that excuses even more distortions.

39 posted on 02/25/2008 8:03:31 AM PST by theBuckwheat
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To: Uncledave

I guess we don’t need to use the oil that’s right in front of us and refine it better and burn it clean in our cars with better mileage because we can all put windmills in our cars.
That thinking has worked so well for years now. /sarc


40 posted on 02/25/2008 8:09:28 AM PST by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them, or they like us?)
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