Posted on 01/04/2015 1:24:44 PM PST by PROCON
Investigation after 328-foot turbine buckles at wind farm in County Tyrone despite only light winds
A 328-foot tall wind turbine worth more than £2 million pounds has buckled and collapsed on a mountainside in Northern Ireland.
Unconfirmed reports suggested the blades of the turbine had spun out of control - despite only light wind speeds - before the structure came crashing to the ground on Friday.
Locals claimed the sound of the turbine hitting the mountain could be heard up to seven miles away from the Screggagh wind farm, near Fintona in County Tyrone.
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Oh! I hope there’s video from a security camera or something! I need a good laugh!
When the control systems or brakes fail, those turbines crash fast.
Huge exploit waiting to happen.
Maybe the birds all got together and pushed it over.
or maybe one blade had too much bird carcass on it, and got unbalanced.
...good thing you didn’t build that....
Obviously a GM/Microsoft collaberation turbine.
(Both the controls and mechanics were Obama quality.)
Perfect metaphor.
Here’s one from a few years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqEccgR0q-o
This latest one seems about twice the size of the Danish youtube one.
Windmills are a sacrament for the left. They are not going to eliminate windmills, even if it’s proven they are a disaster.
Britain wind farms not only idling – They’re taking power from the grid to prevent icing
http://iceagenow.info/2015/01/britain-wind-farms-idling-power-grid-prevent-icing/
Bad idea.
Looks like the monster glue on the upper right hand corner of the kink didn’t work.........Or was that duck tape?
3 million Dollars for Those ! Will they ever recover the cost to build it? They are ugly, noisy, and kill wildlife. Central N.Y. has them all over the place and they totally ruin the beautiful landscape there.
And countless numbers of birds will be saved as a result.
good one
There goes ten years of supposed savings on energy production.
I believe they did the same with wind turbines down in Texas a few winters ago.
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