Wind turbines were designed to capture subsidies, but they clearly weren’t designed to last.
These things have suffered hundreds of ‘structural failures’ – where either 10-25 tonne blades are shredded or flung in all directions; or their 90-120m towers implode, unceremoniously delivering the 80-140 tonne nacelle to terra firma, with exhilarating effect. And, as these things get older, the number of on-site engineering failures can only increase.
Then there are the hours-long pyrotechnic displays when these things self-immolate; exploding into balls of flame and toxic smoke and sending a shower of molten metal and over 1,000 litres of flaming gear oil, hydraulic fluid (see our post here) and burning plastic composites earthwards. By the way, wind turbine fires are ten times more common than the wind industry and its parasites claim (see our post here and check out this website: http://turbinesonfire.org).
Once again gravity gets the better hand. This time the action takes place in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta province, with a turbine that let it all hang out (make sure to check out the video in the piece below).
100-ton wind turbine blades fall to pieces in Vietnam
VN Express
An Minh
3 March 2024
Blades of a wind turbine totaling 100 tons fell off 140 meters and broke into pieces in the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu on Friday.
Residents of Hoa Binh District heard a loud noise at around 5 p.m. Friday and saw wing blades at Hoa Binh Wind Power No. 5 fell to the ground. No person was injured.
Authorities of the district were seen on site Saturday morning to examine the accident.
The blades, each of which is 80 meters long and three meters wide, broke into many pieces in an area of 50 square meters.
The project was being developed by Hacom Bac Lieu Energy.
The blades also damaged a storage house of a local fish farm. There were three people in the house when the blades dropped but no one was hurt, said Nguyen Van Kien, owner of the farm.
The turbines in the project have been suspended after the incident.
The rotor, which weighs dozens of tons, created a hole of five meters deep.
The incident also broke the project’s internal power line.
Security guards were deployed to keep local residents from entering the area.
The project has a price tag of VND3.7 trillion (US$150 million) with a capacity of up to 80 megawatts.
It is built on an area of 30 hectares with 26 turbines that can generate 280 million kilowatt-hours a year.
This is the largest onshore wind power plant near the sea in the Mekong Delta region.
Bac Lieu Province has 10 wind power plants, eight of them operational.
VN Express
STOP THESE THINGS 
It rather looks as if it is the plastic parts of the wind turbines that are failing, in which case every blade on every wind turbine around the world will suffer the same fate in the near future.
Poor quality, yet very expensive tat, particularly from China, literally falling apart – who will fund replacements? Oh, of course, good old consumers again – the sooner net zero is scrapped, the better