Posted on 01/23/2023 9:13:26 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Bloomberg Business Week, no foe of green energy, headlines: Wind Turbines Taller Than the Statue of Liberty Are Falling Over.” The article beneath the headline reports on a variety of alarming disasters involving wind turbines, including collapses of very tall sructures.
On a calm, sunny day last June, Mike Willey was feeding his cattle when he got a call from the local sheriff’s dispatcher. A motorist had reported that one of the huge turbines at a nearby wind farm had collapsed in dramatic fashion. Willey, chief of the volunteer fire department in Ames, 90 miles northwest of Oklahoma City, set out to survey the scene.
The steel tower, which once stood hundreds of feet tall, was buckled in half, and the turbine blades, whose rotation took the machine higher than the Statue of Liberty, were splayed across the wheat field below. The turbine, made by General Electric Co., had been in operation less than a year. “It fell pretty much right on top of itself,” Willey says.
Another GE turbine of the same model collapsed in Colorado a few days later. That wind farm’s owner-operator, NextEra Energy Inc., later attributed it to a blade flaw and said it and GE had taken steps to prevent future mishaps. A spokesperson for GE declined to say what went wrong in both cases in a statement to Bloomberg.
The instances are part of a rash of recent wind turbine malfunctions across the US and Europe, ranging from failures of key components to full collapses.
The article blames the “rash” of incidents on the rush to install turbine capacity, but there are also permanent factors that make engineering, building, and maintaining wind farms difficult and risky.
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In that picture it appears the foundation rotated out of the ground. That would lead me first to look at foundation design and construction as opposed to turbine construction.
Look, a dead bird killer!
Well not as spectacular but I guess they’re our version of the Hindenburg.
Damn things were vaxxinated
Wow, the concrete base pulled out of the ground? That’s a very small concrete base for such a large, highly loaded structure. I can see the Chinese making such weak, undersized concrete bases. I’m shocked to see that in the USA. Unless that’s a Chinese windmill in the photo
Calling BS on the tips hitting supersonic speeds, no way are they going that fast and staying together. Continuous sonic boom off the tips? As it approached the speed if it jumped beyond and then below the SOS a few times the resonance of that would tear the Fiberglas apart.
This wasn’t a “buckled in half” thing. The foundation failed. Uprooted like a blown over tree. I have seen one picture where the steel part of the support tower failed, but it wasn’t from the steel tube part. It was from the weld-seam - the metal tubing didn’t ‘buckle.”
Building these white elephants use more energy and pollute the planet than what they produce. Half of em stop spinning after a few years. Wind is a gimmick to keep the global warming Moonbats at bay.
gravity. damn.
Foundation work by illegals, LLC.
Another large wind turbine failure in Wisconsin this week. Luckily, no one was killed.
Darn Chinese pot metal nuts and bolts
Thought it was interesting when Warren Buffett said they were not a good investment.
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