Posted on 02/28/2025 8:42:46 AM PST by DallasBiff
I still say take them to the border and set them upright in concrete side by side.
Could make a good fence.
This is going to become quite common as more and more of this crap ages.
When I worked in the power industry in the 70s and 80s, spontaneous collapses of coal and natural gas fired power plants was a huge and serious problem. Remember your lights flickering? That was the sign of another power plant collapsing.
But we worked hard, did a lot of R&D, and licked the problem.
(just kidding in case you couldn’t tell)
We spent a night in Killdare a few years ago. Not recommended.
Notice how clean the failure is at the bottom flange... it’s as if all the bolts instantly disappeared. There is no distortion on that flange, no ‘tears in the metal’, nothing. This is a dead giveaway that the bolts all failed in cyclical fatigue. What is amazing about this failure is that it occurred after only four years and it came down in what were reportedly windless conditions. This essentially indicates that the bolts had already ‘almost failed’ failed to the extent that even a minor change that affected the balance was enough to bring it down. Once the first bolt went, it would have been like sitting beside a popcorn maker as the other ones quickly popped.
Were there other factors? Four years is such a short period of time that one wonders if the right bolts were used or if a proper bolt tightening technique was used. Not paying attention to those issues will greatly hasten how fast cyclical fatigue can occur.
Uh, oil?
This is going to become quite common as more and more of this crap ages.
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That’s true.... but this one was just commissioned in 2021. Apparently, this particular IWT was part of a group of 74 that Duke Energy put up. It will be very interesting to see what they do with the other 73....
Made In China ?
Dnag, I was hoping for a video. I love watching those things explode.
After traveling through the mid west (OK,TX, NM & AZ), windmills are nothing but a blight on the landscape. Plus they are insufficient.
The Dutch wind mills actually make sense as a way to pump water back into the North Sea.
Without them the Netherlands would literally be about 2/3 its current size of landmass.
They have been spinning away pumping water back north for hundreds of years.
I suspect they were also built prior to any subsidy from the government.
The wind musta polder over.
Gotta lube those joints...For all of their discussions about replacing oil, they have to have it to run their machines...And the environmental impact of windmills is much greater than Oil and Gas in my opinion. They cannot bury those mountains of junk, so where are you going to put them when the are done?
There’s a song too... :^) Can’t find it online, but I remember it from youth.
Yep. People don’t realize those windmills use a whole lot of oil.
The other shoe is about to fall on these ‘Dutch’ whirlybirdbrain energy generators, they um, ‘clog’ up the grid.
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