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Giant Wind Turbines Keep Mysteriously Falling Over. This Shouldn't Be Happening.
Popular Mechanics ^ | JAN 23, 2023 | Tim Newcomb

Posted on 02/02/2023 9:56:52 AM PST by Leaning Right

The taller the wind turbine, the harder they fall. And they sure are falling.

Wind turbine failures are on the uptick, from Oklahoma to Sweden and Colorado to Germany, with all three of the major manufacturers admitting that the race to create bigger turbines has invited manufacturing issues, according to a report from Bloomberg.

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


TOPICS: Front Page News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: globalwarminghooax; howdareyou; turbine; windpower; windturbines
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To: PGR88
Maybe it should be happening - but we've been too propagandized and corrupted by the fake "climate change" political movement, we can't admit it.

If it's happening, then it should be happening. Obviously there are some engineering shortcomings somewhere in the mix. That's the nature of reality (where leftists and other types fear to tread).

21 posted on 02/02/2023 10:10:45 AM PST by Disambiguator
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To: KTM rider

I saw miles and miles of these things on my ride down to Peoria IL from Chicago. My grandson says they’re everywhere in central Illinois.


22 posted on 02/02/2023 10:12:14 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Gun laws empower criminals. Guns empower the people.)
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To: albie
It’s probably because there’s like a 100 foot propellor that goes round and round on a stick. This round and round motion causes stress on said stick.

Torque and sway will do that!
23 posted on 02/02/2023 10:12:49 AM PST by 100%FEDUP
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To: McGavin999; All

IMH (mech eng) opinion, they underestimated the wind and resulting bending moment where the base of the wind turbine entered the ground.
If you have not seen “engineering disasters” about the Seattle Tacoma narrows bridge, there a videos here showing it flop around like a noodle and fall because the engineers miscalculated or neglected wind loads.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge#:~:text=The%20Tacoma%20Narrows%20Bridge%20is,until%201964)%20over%20the%20strait.


24 posted on 02/02/2023 10:12:51 AM PST by MikeSteelBe (The South will be in the right in the next war of Northern aggression.)
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To: Leaning Right
They're falling over because of global warming; we need MORE of them, MORE, I tell ya to STOP global warming! (sarcasm tag needed?)
25 posted on 02/02/2023 10:13:29 AM PST by PROCON (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: ClearCase_guy

“..It’s gravity.....”

Gravity??!!! Surely you jest.
That old concept of “gravity” was brought about one of those bad, old, racist white men....I believe even his name reeks or “racism”: Sir Isaac Newton. “Sir” my black arse!!! Therefore, the concept of “gravity” is racist and must be rejected at all costs and considered a false concept around this flat world. (BTW, it ain’t round..that was another old racist white guy).
So why are these things toppling over? It’s because of Trump!!! Just ask the MadMaxiePad...it will tell ya exactly why it’s happening.


26 posted on 02/02/2023 10:14:45 AM PST by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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To: Leaning Right
The taller the wind turbine, the harder they fall. And they sure are falling.

It's obvious that people have a fundamental misunderstanding of wind turbines. Too many are under the mistaken impression that the turbines are erected to generate 'electricity'. In reality, they are built to produce 'felicity', and they do indeed make environmentalists blissfully happy, whether the turbines are upright and functioning or laying in pieces on the ground...

;^)

27 posted on 02/02/2023 10:15:02 AM PST by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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To: Leaning Right

Its caused by Rigid Resonance, my personal nomenclature. The base of the tower is set in concrete and the rotor head is not allowed to oscillate/flex while rotating, setting up a rigid fixture. Something like a flexible gimble head or shaft/gear box set on large rubber donuts to allow some flexing between the prop head and the tower will solve the problem. Admiral John F’ing Kerry knows all about that.


28 posted on 02/02/2023 10:15:37 AM PST by chopperk ( )
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To: Leaning Right

Correct. They should be being dismantled, not falling over willy nilly. They are corrupting my “view shed”. Remember when someone could stop a project by saying that?


29 posted on 02/02/2023 10:15:37 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: KTM rider

> without special inspection of footings the contractors will cheat like crazy <

You sure are right about that. A guy I know (now retired) was a building inspector. Well, one day he made a surprise inspection at a hotel site. If I recall correctly, the specs for one section of concrete called for rebars 12 inches apart. The workers were laying them 18 inches apart. Just to save a few bucks.


30 posted on 02/02/2023 10:17:56 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: KarlInOhio

“It is by faith alone that the wind turbine towers are able to stand.”

Yes, and in order to make sure that the towers don’t fall, all good liberals should extend their arms and spin in a circle for at least 3 minutes a day in order to transfer their spiritual energy to the turbines and help stabilize them. Preferably while blindfolded and standing next to a busy intersection.


31 posted on 02/02/2023 10:18:04 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Leaning Right

Lay them down on the ground and they won’t fall. Problem solved.


32 posted on 02/02/2023 10:18:04 AM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Billthedrill

http://images1.fanpop.com/images/photos/2400000/The-Birds-alfred-hitchcock-2422003-1024-768.jpg


33 posted on 02/02/2023 10:18:16 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: KTM rider

From those pictures, it doesn’t look like the failure point is the connection between the concrete footings and the steel tube. The tube has deformed above the ground a good ways and failed like an empty pop can squeezed in the middle.


34 posted on 02/02/2023 10:18:26 AM PST by rednesss (fascism is the union,marriage,merger or fusion of corporate economic power with governmental power )
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To: albie
This round and round motion causes stress on said stick.

I had a girlfriend like that in college.

35 posted on 02/02/2023 10:19:35 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Leaning Right

This is happening because they’re a poorly designed, bad idea, ineptly executed.

Oh, and a waste of time, money and resources.


36 posted on 02/02/2023 10:19:36 AM PST by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: Leaning Right

Damned things are all over Germany, ruining the scenery. I didn’t realize how big they were until I stood next to one. In the past three years I’ve seen one fall, one burn, and one hanging lopsided missing a blade. I assume the laws of physics play a part in tearing these beasties apart.


37 posted on 02/02/2023 10:19:47 AM PST by Thunder 6
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To: Yo-Yo
Fudd’s First Law of Opposition:

“If you push something hard enough it will fall over.”

38 posted on 02/02/2023 10:20:00 AM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: rednesss

Do the other towers feel bad when one of their compatriots topples?


39 posted on 02/02/2023 10:21:48 AM PST by Taylor42 (How can people be so stupid?)
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To: KTM rider

Judging by those photographs I didn’t see any failures in footings, I saw failure in hollow tubes disguised as structural towers.


40 posted on 02/02/2023 10:22:28 AM PST by lewislynn (Trump accomplished more in one term than any other President in your lifetime.)
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