Vineyard Wind shut down after turbine failure, "sharp fiberglass shards" wash ashore on Nantucket beaches

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[Scrambler Bob]

How does this stuff compare to ‘forever plastic’?

Cage match.

[Scrambler Bob]

A nearby ‘source’ of mine reported that they were just getting ready to start this thing - hadn’t even run yet.

[Indy Pendance]

Just wait until a hurricane strikes. Where I live, a tornado knocked one over.

[rdcbn1]

Off shore wind turbines are a scam.

Salt water wreaks havoc on everything including the blades.

[Mouton]

Darn, I was waiting for a hurricane to hit those things and send them off like pinwheels.

[cp124]

Good.

[butlerweave]

Stupid people building stupid things in stupid places

[butlerweave]

They also leak oil everywhere

[woodbutcher1963]

One of the things they have had to do with some of the older turbine blades over in the North Sea is recover the leading edge with new fiberglass cloth.

The blade from spinning and making contact with salt spray, water, sand and grit eventually wear away the leading edge of the blade.

I guess that is better than burying the blades out in the ground in Wyoming or some other place.

[budj]

Indeed, "...There was once a young man from Nantucket..."

[servo1969]

Well, duh, where else are the pieces going to go when one breaks down? Do they believe these are permanent structures?

[Ezekiel]

Darn, I was waiting for a hurricane to hit those things and send them off like pinwheels.

[small farm girl]

Used to just have to worry about sh-sh-sh-shark!

[Henchster]

Vaughn: Martin? Martin, you gonna shut down the beaches on your own authority?
Martin: Well, what other authority do I need?
Meadows: Well technically you need a civic ordinance or a resolution by a board of selectives -
Vaughn: That's just going by the book. We're really a little anxious that you're, uh, you're rushing into something serious here. It's your first summer you know.
Martin: What does that mean?
Vaughn: I'm only trying to say that Amity is a summer town. We need summer dollars. If the people can't swim here they'll be glad to swim at the beaches of Cape Cod, Hampton, Long Island.
Martin: That doesn't mean we have to serve them up a smorgasbord.
Meadows: But we never had that kind of trouble in these waters.
Martin: But what else could have done that to that girl?
Vaughn: Boat propeller?
Medical Examiner: Well, I think, uh, possibly, uh, yes a boating accident. A boat -
Martin: That's not what you told me over the phone.
Medical Examiner: I was wrong. We'll have to amend our reports.
Martin: And you'll stand by that?
Medical Examiner: I'll stand by it.
Vaughn: Martin. A summer girl goes swimming. Swims out a little far. She tires. A fishing boat comes along...
Meadows: It's happened before.
Vaughn: I don't think you appreciate the gut reaction people have to these things.
Martin: Harry, I appreciate it. I'm just reacting to what I was told!
Vaughn: Martin, i-it's all psychological. You yell `barracuda!', everybody says `huh, what?'. You yell `SHARDS!' and we've got a panic on our hands on the fourth of July. --- Okay you, you can take us back now.

[ltc8k6]

That’s really an environmental disaster. What a shame they allowed those things to be put there.

[matt04]

It makes them feel good, so, consequences be damned.

[matt04]

I am Connecticut, so are vaguely aware of the project, but haven’t followed it closely. I know they are fairly new, maybe a year or two at most

[vpintheak]

Not in the elitist left back yard! Those blades can only shatter and kill birds in redneck land!

[NonValueAdded]

“There once was a windmill from Nantucket ...”