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.
(Excerpt) Read more at masslive.com ...
The overall capacity factor (energy output divided by potential energy output at 100% load) for wind is about 28%. If a turbine is rated at 1,000 kW (i.e., 1 megawatt), that means produces 280 kW on average.
Conventional plants have capacity factors 70% to 85%.
They are spending all this money on this high-cost generation plant that produces one-third of what a conventional plant produces. Another way to look at it is you need to install THREE TIMES the windmills as you would a conventional plant to get the same energy out.
Even worse, windmills are not “dispatchable,” so you need a way to store the energy. Batteries will not do it. There are no feasible energy storage systems. Even if there were, you’d have to build enough storage to get you through a wind lull that can last several days. So you have to build lots more wind turbines to get the same rated output of a conventional plant AND you need to invest a fortune in ANOTHER power plant to store the energy when the doesn’t blow.
The whole think is a massive fraud. Of course, it is all predicated on the idea that we must somehow “decarbonize” which requires you to believe CO2 emissions from conventional power plants are hazardous. That’s a whole ‘nother lie you need to buy into. It is the first base lie upon which this whole house of cards is built.
I’ve honestly never been up close to see the base of one, but it doesn’t surprise me seeing how tall they are and how much force must be exerted by the wind as they spin.
“How many gallons of oil does it take to lubricate one large wind generator? Hundreds
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The source that I consulted says each turbine requires 80 gallons of high tech synthetic crude based oil. A turbine farm consisting of 50 turbines would need 4,000 gallons, and the oil has to be changed annually.
” You also need large rotating masses to regulate the grid to 60 Hz.”
You don’t need large rotating masses to regulate the frequency.
What you are referring to is the ability to minimize frequency drop on loss of a generating unit.
Constant speed turbines have sufficient inertia. Variable speed turbines are decoupled. Perhaps this is the source of your confusion?
However, electronic circuits are being implemented to give variable speed turbine “virtual” inertia.
How much ?
More photos.
Wind turbine loses blade in Gloucester
https://thelocalne.ws/2022/07/31/wind-turbine-loses-blade-in-gloucester/
Who else saw Biden falling off windmill? Ya im late to the party....
This is tantamount to a nuclear reactor meltdown.
Kennedys, Kochs Kill Off Wind Farm Project
(unsightly windmills off Cape Cod)
A plan to build scores of offshore, electricity-generating windmills within eyesight of the Kennedy compound and numerous other tony properties in one of America’s wealthiest, and most scenic areas, is officially dead in the water.
The Cape Wind project, which envisioned 130 turbines to be built off the Massachusetts coast, would have been the first U.S. offshore wind farm. It would also have spoiled the view from the Kennedy family’s estate and that of the Democratic family’s billionaire neighbor, William Koch, owner of a nearby 26-acre estate.
I saw the same thing there. That was back in 1987.
The biggest waste of land are the windmill or solar fields and graveyards.
Absolutely correct... crony capitalism at its finest. Using tax dollars to force an agenda on the country with a few donors along the way making some bank.
Well past time to repeal the 17th Amendment and eliminate the Senior Executive Service via a Convention of States. Our Founding Father’s were not stupid.
Wow. Walk up to one and see if there are any dead birds laying around.
I see them on top of the blue ridge mountains and I have never seen on move either. But I don’t gaze at them. They are ugly.
Same here hehe !
The Blue Ridge Mountains? Oh dear. I rode my Harley on the Blue Ridge Parkway thirty years ago, and stopped at every turnout just to look at the beautiful vistas. Thay have ruined that too? I’m glad I have my memories.
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