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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at masslive.com ...


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To: kaktuskid

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.


41 posted on 07/31/2022 9:03:26 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, angels protect you and heaven accept you”)
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To: Deaf Smith

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.


42 posted on 07/31/2022 9:43:08 PM PDT by matt04 ( )
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To: From The Deer Stand

“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.


43 posted on 07/31/2022 10:00:38 PM PDT by Saltmeat (69)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

” 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.


44 posted on 07/31/2022 10:19:53 PM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: ASOC

How much ?


45 posted on 07/31/2022 11:09:30 PM PDT by A strike (LGBFJRoberts)
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To: matt04
Looks like this wind turbine is missing something, for sure.


46 posted on 07/31/2022 11:33:30 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: texas booster

More photos.

Wind turbine loses blade in Gloucester
https://thelocalne.ws/2022/07/31/wind-turbine-loses-blade-in-gloucester/


47 posted on 07/31/2022 11:36:02 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: matt04

Who else saw Biden falling off windmill? Ya im late to the party....


48 posted on 08/01/2022 12:35:47 AM PDT by Pocketdoor
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To: matt04

This is tantamount to a nuclear reactor meltdown.


49 posted on 08/01/2022 12:40:54 AM PDT by taxesareforever (Islam is an ideology. It is NOT a religion.)
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To: matt04; All

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foxnews.com/us/kennedys-kochs-help-kill-planned-wind-farm-off-cape-cod.amp

Kennedys, Kochs Kill Off Wind Farm Project
(unsightly windmills off Cape Cod)


50 posted on 08/01/2022 2:15:42 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio

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.


51 posted on 08/01/2022 2:16:47 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: kaktuskid

I saw the same thing there. That was back in 1987.


52 posted on 08/01/2022 3:26:11 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

The biggest waste of land are the windmill or solar fields and graveyards.


53 posted on 08/01/2022 3:50:38 AM PDT by lilypad
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

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.


54 posted on 08/01/2022 4:01:06 AM PDT by Article10 (Roger That)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
I don’t think I’ve ever seen any windmill actually turn and this is from years of seeing them. It is a total scam.

Indeed. There are some in Hanover, Kingston, and Plymouth MA, and I drive by them at every time of the day or night, every season, and every day.

I have never seen one move...not even once.
55 posted on 08/01/2022 5:40:15 AM PDT by left that other site (Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.)
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To: left that other site
I have never seen one move...not even once.

Wow. Walk up to one and see if there are any dead birds laying around.

56 posted on 08/01/2022 5:41:24 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va
Wow. Walk up to one and see if there are any dead birds laying around.

I am sure there are plenty of dead birds, as those things sit directly in their flight paths. I know that the outer edge of the blade goes very fast, even though there is an optical illusion that the blades are moving very slowly, but these don't seem to be moving at all.

PS, one can't merely "walk up to one". They are surrounded by a tall chain link fence topped with razor wire. Very Scenic.
57 posted on 08/01/2022 5:49:16 AM PDT by left that other site (Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.)
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To: left that other site

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.


58 posted on 08/01/2022 5:51:30 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Tennessee Nana

Same here hehe !


59 posted on 08/01/2022 5:52:58 AM PDT by sushiman
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To: central_va

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.


60 posted on 08/01/2022 5:54:38 AM PDT by left that other site (Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.)
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