To develop meaningful amounts of power, the blades on the turbine have to be big, and when big blades spin in heavy winds, the tips can end up hitting supersonic speeds, putting great stress of the materials used to construct them. Big blades also requite tall towers, which are then subject to stresses as winds blow and can gust during storms to velocities that test the strength of the materials and the design of the towers.
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To: SeekAndFind
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.
2 posted on
01/23/2023 9:17:45 AM PST by
KC Burke
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3 posted on
01/23/2023 9:17:47 AM PST by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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Look, a dead bird killer!
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Well not as spectacular but I guess they’re our version of the Hindenburg.
5 posted on
01/23/2023 9:18:18 AM PST by
xp38
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6 posted on
01/23/2023 9:18:38 AM PST by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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Damn things were vaxxinated
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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
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01/23/2023 9:18:59 AM PST by
ProtectOurFreedom
(Once you get people to believe that a plural pronoun is singular, they'll believe anything - nicollo)
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Need better poles...
10 posted on
01/23/2023 9:20:53 AM PST by
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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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.
11 posted on
01/23/2023 9:20:53 AM PST by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: SeekAndFind
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.”
12 posted on
01/23/2023 9:23:12 AM PST by
Gaffer
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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.
13 posted on
01/23/2023 9:23:43 AM PST by
Cobra64
(Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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14 posted on
01/23/2023 9:23:48 AM PST by
rktman
(Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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15 posted on
01/23/2023 9:24:12 AM PST by
teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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Foundation work by illegals, LLC.
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Another large wind turbine failure in Wisconsin this week. Luckily, no one was killed.
17 posted on
01/23/2023 9:25:41 AM PST by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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Thought it was interesting when Warren Buffett said they were not a good investment.
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Needs Buster Keaton standing there to get barely-missed by the blades as it face-plants into the dirt:
22 posted on
01/23/2023 9:33:22 AM PST by
PLMerite
("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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Where's Disaster Girl these days?
27 posted on
01/23/2023 9:44:43 AM PST by
C210N
(Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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Wow! Having watched videos about how much concrete and rebar they put into the foundations for those towers, it is just amazing to seen one blown over like that.
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