Posted on 02/15/2022 5:12:10 PM PST by nascarnation
Villagers were woken by a 300ft wind turbine crashing down on a Welsh mountainside - after it was blown over during storms which brought 50pmh winds.
The £20million turbine - double the height of Nelson's Column - snapped apart and blades crumpled in raging wind.
Families in the nearby village of Gilfach Goch, near Bridgend, South Wales, told how it sounded like 'thunder and lightning'.
It woke them at around 6.50am on Monday morning and echoed around the valley below.
The 29-turbine Pant Y Wal wind farm opened in 2013 and makes enough power for 19,000 homes - until one was wrecked in the storm at the weekend.
Villagers are questioning how the turbine could have fallen apart during winds of around 50mph and demand officials check the status of neighbouring turbines.
Nordex - the company that manufactured the turbine - said an investigation is now underway to determine the cause of the collapse.
A renewable energy industry expert, who wanted to remain anonymous, told MailOnline that a collapsing turbine is a 'real rarity', adding there 'are more than 10,000 of them up and down the country'. He suggested the materials might have been faulty, but insisted it was 'very unlikely to be the local wind speed' that brought it down.
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Big Wind
and Big Sun
when winter comes
can’t get it done....
50 mph winds! My goodness! What a storm!
That’s a shame.
Irony defined.
Climate change wreaks havoc yet again!
“ 50 mph winds! My goodness! What a storm!”
Ya can’t make this stuff up!
Is it ok to laugh
cant wait till one of those nasty, F-5 Texas tornado’s slams one of those “wind turbine” farms...it’ll take a week for the pieces to come down....
Isn’t that what Brandon was touting a little bit ago?
Unless there is some sort of lens artifact, the windmill in the center of the picture background has a definite lean to the left....
Not a storm. More like a tropical breeze.
Like it’s advocates, it leans left.
Reminds me of one of my all-time favorite Rush-isms, which he'd say if a caller called in the 3rd hour of his show and talked about something mentioned in the 1st hour. Rush, knowing that some of his listeners come and go during the day, like on their lunch break, would always catch-up listeners who didn't know the context from the first hour by saying something like:
"For those of you just now joining the program in the 3rd hour because you don't work because you're on welfare, what the caller is talking about..."
ROTFLMChristianFreeAmericanSuccessfulHairyWhiteUnsodomizedAO!
Except during the Carter administration, when it was dictated to be 55 mph.
Well at least it wasn’t another Aberfan.
I wonder if Brandon would consider bringing back the 55 for “energy conservation”?
My guess is it’s total poison to the voters and little chance it could happen.
So parking a truck next to a machine is proof of good maintenance? I bet I can sell a bridge or two there.
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