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Wind Turbine Blade Hospitalizes One Person After Crashing Onto Busy Interstate in Maryland
thegatewaypundit.com ^ | Jul. 1, 2025 | Anthony Scott

Posted on 07/01/2025 5:32:52 AM PDT by V_TWIN

A wind turbine blade crashed onto I-70 in Maryland on Monday morning.

The Maryland State Highway Administration reported, “At approximately 5:30 a.m., a tractor trailer traveling westbound on I-70 was pulling a wind turbine blade that struck the guardrail causing the blade to go partially into the eastbound lanes.”

SHA added, “The blade was then clipped by a tractor-trailer traveling eastbound.”

The incident hospitalized one person and closed the westbound lane on I-70 for several hours.

A video of the incident was uploaded on X.

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


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KEYWORDS: blade; turbine; wind; windturbine; windturbineblade
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Reason #83 to get rid of these infernal contraptions.
1 posted on 07/01/2025 5:32:52 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: V_TWIN

I heard they are now making this crap in China. ROTFL!


2 posted on 07/01/2025 5:37:13 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Correction! America is a nation of LEGAL IMMIGRANTS! All of mine came here legally. No free stuff.)
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To: V_TWIN

I hate them with a passion. You’ve messed up the land as the bases are huge, it kills birds indiscriminately, if not for massive subsidies it would not be feasible and lastly undependable and we all like for electricity to be cheap and dependable.


3 posted on 07/01/2025 5:38:38 AM PDT by BipolarBob (If people make you sick, maybe you should try cooking them longer.)
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To: nobody in particular

That looks like a fake image, perhaps generated by AI.


4 posted on 07/01/2025 5:38:42 AM PDT by SGCOS (If COVID doesn't kill you, the vaccines will. )
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To: SGCOS

“That looks like a fake image, perhaps generated by AI.”

My first thought. Probably a simulation for rescue crews.


5 posted on 07/01/2025 5:40:56 AM PDT by BobL
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To: BipolarBob

“undependable”....aren’t all so called renewables?


6 posted on 07/01/2025 5:46:03 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: BipolarBob

“I hate them with a passion.”

Ditto. White hot hatred. For SO many reasons. I was a power engineer and am appalled at the horrible, lying economics the proponents use that cover up the true cost of these infernal machines. I regularly drive in throughout the west and have seen so many of the magnificent vistas in the western states ruined forever by these things. And the proponents never reveal how dirty these things are when you look at the cradle-to-grave view. Plus the companies that built them rarely had to post any reclamation surety bonds, so when they reach the end of their lives, you will have rusting 400 foot tall steel towers all over the country, millions of tons of concrete buried in the soil, and tens of millions of tons of non-recyclable blades in landfills. These things only last 20-25 years, so that disposal problem is ramping up fast.


7 posted on 07/01/2025 5:46:38 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

That pic looks like Legos.


8 posted on 07/01/2025 5:57:21 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: V_TWIN

Wind power in its current form is a boondoggle scam .

I watched some of this on the live feed yesterday.

The rear component eventually gets back into position by scooting sideways and they get back on their way.

I would like to see the crash footage.


9 posted on 07/01/2025 5:57:49 AM PDT by OldHarbor
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It looks pretty close to the real thing. Maybe it’s an image copied from another site and just really low pixel count.

https://abc7chicago.com/post/wind-turbine-accident-blade-partially-closed-70-hagerstown-maryland/16891915/


10 posted on 07/01/2025 6:00:55 AM PDT by wbarmy (Trying to do better.)
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To: OldHarbor

“Wind power in its current form is a boondoggle scam”

Anything outside of fossil fuels all are


11 posted on 07/01/2025 6:02:53 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: V_TWIN

They were transporting a wind turbine blade with a carbon emitting truck?


12 posted on 07/01/2025 6:08:35 AM PDT by dmacg
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

They are nothing but EYE POLLUTION! HORRIBLE THINGS!


13 posted on 07/01/2025 6:13:07 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: dmacg

Great point...wind and solar can never stand alone on it’s own merits.

Reminds me of my neighbors that just bought a brand new $55k EV and instead of driving it from Florida to western New York they rented an ICE vehicle for the trip because....and this is their words “we were concerned about finding available charging stations”......SMH


14 posted on 07/01/2025 6:16:28 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: V_TWIN

Aye


15 posted on 07/01/2025 6:20:07 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

And they kill vast numbers of hawks, eagles, vultures and bats, plus many other protected species. Where are the greenies that always cry about the “environment”?


16 posted on 07/01/2025 6:23:31 AM PDT by 9422WMR
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To: V_TWIN
Headline is a little misleading. It was a truck transporting the wind turbine blade that crashed.

It was a transportation accident, not an operational accident.

17 posted on 07/01/2025 6:30:20 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: V_TWIN

Meanwhile, in Virginia it’s full speed ahead with the madness.

Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW), is their scam.


18 posted on 07/01/2025 6:38:31 AM PDT by OldHarbor
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Agreed- I was on a business trip from San Diego to Mexicali a few years back to inspect some equipment, and we drove through windmill farms along the US border with perhaps a thousand wind mills - Maybe 10% were spinning. Destroyed a beautiful landscape


19 posted on 07/01/2025 6:42:57 AM PDT by Fzob (“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential)
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To: V_TWIN

It’s a bird ,it’s a plane ,no it’s just another Wind Turbine Blade


20 posted on 07/01/2025 6:43:44 AM PDT by butlerweave
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