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Blade falls off 400-foot wind turbine in Gloucester (MA); no injuries reported
MassLive.com ^

Posted on 07/31/2022 6:55:14 PM PDT by matt04

A 400-foot-tall wind turbine in Gloucester suffered a mechanical failure Sunday morning causing one of the turbine’s blades to fall to the ground.

The wind turbine is at Applied Materials on Dory Road in Blackburn Industrial Park. Gloucester Fire Department received a report of the incident at approximately 7 a.m. Sunday, according to a news release.

The fire department and the city are working with Applied Materials to establish an appropriate isolation area around the turbine to ensure the safety of the structure and people around it.

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To: left that other site

There aren’t that many yet but there are some. The stupid idiots put them near the biggest attraction in the area, the Luray Caverns. Stupid...


61 posted on 08/01/2022 6:17:47 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
I drive through Massachusetts all the time and see these things and they are NEVER EVER moving! For YEARS, so just what the hell are they doing?

The idiot government dealmakers who stole taxpayer money to give to these companies to build them, forgot to include taxpayer money to dismantle them when they became worthless.

62 posted on 08/01/2022 6:19:38 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: matt04

“Blade falls off 400-foot wind turbine in Gloucester (MA); no injuries reported”

My eye sight is starting to go a little bit, cataracts are starting to manifest etc.. plus I’m tired and fuzzy brained and I woke up this morning after a pretty busy weekend and had coffee-in-hand, glanced at this article and my eyes fooled me. I thought it read:

Biden falls off 400-foot wind turbine in Gloucester (MA); no injuries reported


63 posted on 08/01/2022 6:23:46 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Who will pay for the removal of these enormous structures when they reach the end of their useful lives (pretending that they were ever useful)? That looks like a very exoensive, specialized job to me and I think the owners will simply declare bankruptcy or maybe just refuse to do it. Same thing for the massive acreage now covered by already outdated solar farms.


64 posted on 08/01/2022 6:39:56 AM PDT by Stingray51 ( )
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To: central_va

I LOVE the Luray Caverns. Been there many times.

Is the Antique Car Museum still there?


65 posted on 08/01/2022 7:09:17 AM PDT by left that other site (Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Drive thru Palm Springs sometime.
The original Hollywood Star getaway location has been destroyed by wall to wall wind farms.
I was shocked the first time I saw it.


66 posted on 08/01/2022 11:12:21 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: left that other site

They always have some artistic rendition on them when they push for them, but once installed they are hideous and ruin some one formerly scenic view.


67 posted on 08/01/2022 11:13:21 AM PDT by matt04 ( )
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To: Zathras

I’ve seen it in the Palm Springs area. And Colorado. And Utah. And the Altami t Pass in CA.

People don’t seem to have a clue that they want to blanket the entire country with tens of millions of these things.

It takes about 900 of them to replace ONE 1,000 MW coal fired unit. It’s not uncommon for a big power plant to have three or four such units, so the entire power plant output is 3,000 to 4,000 MW. You need almost 4,000 windmills to replace one 4,000 MW power plant.


68 posted on 08/01/2022 11:30:31 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, angels protect you and heaven accept you”)
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To: From The Deer Stand

“How many gallons of oil does it take to lubricate one large wind generator? Hundreds?”

I’ve read that these windmills overall never make back the money that they cost over their lifetime. Add the cost of disposal to that. But hey..when they’re sitting there doing nothing just think how much longer they last.

Might as well use a magic spell, which is just short of most leftist’s ideology.


69 posted on 08/01/2022 12:11:57 PM PDT by bluescape (Mainstream Media-The guard dog that holds you down while the attacker has his way.)
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To: matt04

There’s something not right, too much left out of this story. The blades are >150 feet long, weigh better than 10 tons and “full speed” is 50-60 rpm, making for a YUGE amount of centripetal force. Lose one blade and the imbalance produces considerably more force than the nacelle can tolerate, and the whole schmeer comes apart.

Which lends the possibility they’re either leaving out the fact that it self-destructed, or the blade fell off when it wasn’t even running, like maybe during routine maintenance.


70 posted on 08/01/2022 4:02:21 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: matt04

Yes indeed.


71 posted on 08/01/2022 5:30:33 PM PDT by left that other site (Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.)
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To: Schatze

Wait ‘til the Biden recession really kicks in.
They’ll be assigning the homeless to pick up shredded poultry around wind farms for sustenance.


72 posted on 08/01/2022 5:32:21 PM PDT by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: bluescape

Buy disposal, they Generally just bury them in a landfill, as the blades apparently can’t be recycled, and pretend that’s not an environmental nightmare for a future generations. I would imagine the polls are shipped off and cut up to be recycled.


73 posted on 08/01/2022 8:17:38 PM PDT by matt04 ( )
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To: Paal Gulli

Interesting point. In another article, they showed the blade broken in 2 to 4 pieces, hard to tell practically at the base of the windmill tower. Seems like it’s running at least part of it would’ve been flung a bit farther away.


74 posted on 08/01/2022 8:18:57 PM PDT by matt04 ( )
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