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Wind turbine’s deadly ice shower (UK Turbine Throws Deadly Ice Shards)
Peterborough UK Evening Telegraph ^
| 12-02-2008
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Posted on 12/02/2008 4:41:51 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE
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Notice that the ICE was being thrown until the wind turbine was secured: Thus, not only was the "environmentally safe" wind turbine NOT generating energy either safely or in a timely manner to save us from global warming (in a very rare icing conditions in England), but it had been built in very close range to the houses.
Siting restrictions for these huge structures are not trivial: they need to be very far apart (ten times their height is best from the nearest wind turbine), but the noise and vibration are significant irritation.
Though I am not the least worried about bird droppings. 8<)
This story was posted on Anthony Watts' wattsupwiththat web site.
To: xcamel; steelyourfaith; neverdem; AFPhys
Any guesses about the range of these ice chunks?
If a 1” ball of hail can damage a car, what will a ten lb sharp-edged shard do to your head? Or your roof?
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posted on
12/02/2008 4:43:18 PM PST
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Maybe Ted Kennedy knew what he was talking about, after all...
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posted on
12/02/2008 4:43:59 PM PST
by
Old Sarge
(For the first time in my life, I am ashamed to be an American)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Maybe clean coal is gooder after all.
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posted on
12/02/2008 4:44:05 PM PST
by
norraad
("What light!">Blues Brothers)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
A few ice deaths are a small price to pay for going green. Consider them sacrifices to Gaia.
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posted on
12/02/2008 4:44:21 PM PST
by
Travis McGee
(--www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com--)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
But at least they didn't have to inhale excess CO
2.
ML/NJ
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posted on
12/02/2008 4:44:38 PM PST
by
ml/nj
To: norraad
special on hard hats in aisle 6......
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
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posted on
12/02/2008 4:47:06 PM PST
by
Joiseydude
(Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel,)
To: Old Sarge
Maybe Ted Kennedy knew what he was talking about, after all...A little ice for your Chivas?
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posted on
12/02/2008 4:47:33 PM PST
by
ninonitti
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL
Does anyone THINK AHEAD?
To: ninonitti
The concern is not your safety, the concern is the environment.
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posted on
12/02/2008 4:48:38 PM PST
by
Edizzl79
(you want my guns..come and get em...I dare ya....)
To: Joiseydude
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posted on
12/02/2008 4:50:12 PM PST
by
advertising guy
(I'd rather eat a pound of cat turds than set one toe in Mexico again)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Does the “King’s Dyke Karpets” match the drapes?
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posted on
12/02/2008 4:50:15 PM PST
by
Larry Lucido
(Free Brightside. And re-free Lazamataz.)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Holey Smokes! It’s a great big ice-throwing trebuchet!
LOL.
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posted on
12/02/2008 4:52:12 PM PST
by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Maybe the ice showers will deccorate Peterboros apalingly skippy Christmas tree, or was that in Peterbroro on Thames? Or Peterboro by Hastings?
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
I want to laugh, but I do know how deadly falling ice can be. I remember walking out of my accounting exam around noon one December day. We had just had an ice storm the day and night before, but the day of the exam was sunny and getting warm. UNC-CH campus is beautiful with huge, old trees. I was used to getting pelted by an occasional falling acorn or two which stung as much as my accounting final, but the ice and icicles falling that day were downright dangerous and potentially lethal. And that's just ice falling from some tall trees after an ice storm.
The top of the blades on these things are 416 ft, moving at 65 to 90 mph and throwing a 5-50 lb chunk of solid ice ??? I don't need my physics book to know the force of impact is something lawyers live for. Darwin smiles.
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posted on
12/02/2008 4:55:48 PM PST
by
GBA
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
WOW! No wonder Teddy doesn’t want these things 15 miles downwind of his house!!
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
The lesson here is to buy an electric car — only evil fossil fueled vehicles will be struck by the ice projectiles... </ s>
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posted on
12/02/2008 4:59:58 PM PST
by
mikrofon
(Talk about getting cold-cocked)
To: GBA
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posted on
12/02/2008 5:03:44 PM PST
by
1rudeboy
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
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posted on
12/02/2008 5:06:26 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
(If it's to be a bloodbath, let it be now. Appeasement is not the answer. - Ronald Reagan)
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