These things have a nasty habit of self-destructing without notice - whether it’s shredding and/or throwing their blades for miles, or spontaneously combusting in toxic fireballs, the environmental damage done is immediate and often permanent. In a recent post - Fibreglass From Shredded Wind Turbine Blades Renders Farming Land Useless - we covered the story … Continue reading Disintegrating Offshore Turbine Blades Littering Coast With Shredded Toxic Fibreglass
Category: wind turbine safety
Deadly Interference: Offshore Wind Turbines Wrecking Marine Radar Signals
Radar is critical to safe marine navigation, and pilots, both domestic and military, particularly when the weather turns sour. With offshore wind turbines the perfect radar signal wreckers, you'd think they were designed as some form of enemy espionage. Wind turbines standing on columns 100-150m or more above sea level, with the tips of their 50-80m … Continue reading Deadly Interference: Offshore Wind Turbines Wrecking Marine Radar Signals
Fibreglass From Shredded Wind Turbine Blades Renders Farming Land Useless
Farmers foolish enough to enter contracts with wind power outfits soon live to regret it. Having their land permanently contaminated by shredded fibreglass when turbines explode into balls of flame and/or their blades merely disintegrate (known in the trade as “component liberation”) is just one of a list of disasters waiting to happen. At first … Continue reading Fibreglass From Shredded Wind Turbine Blades Renders Farming Land Useless
No Deal: Country Firefighters Refuse to Fight Wind Turbine and Solar Panel Fires
Fed up country firefighters are refusing to fight fires started by wind turbines, solar panels and giant batteries. Placing their lives at mortal risk to save others and their property, would be heroic enough. However, most of them are volunteers who spend hundreds of hours being trained in firefighting methods and how to do so … Continue reading No Deal: Country Firefighters Refuse to Fight Wind Turbine and Solar Panel Fires
Mister Floppy: Strong Winds Wiping Out (More) Ageing Wind Turbines
As they get older, wind turbines have a hard time keeping it together. Hit ‘em with strong wind and the fun begins. Blades disintegrate, and chunks thereof relocate over vast distances - an exhilarating experience for anyone living, working or driving in the throw zone. Sometimes the entire hundred-tonne nacelle gets in on the action; … Continue reading Mister Floppy: Strong Winds Wiping Out (More) Ageing Wind Turbines
Tornado Terror: Giant Industrial Wind Turbines No Match For America’s Twisters
Wind power is described as the pinnacle of ‘distributed’ generation systems - watching 250m turbines being distributed far and wide by Cyclones, Typhoons and Hurricanes certainly gives that impression. Although, we’re not sure that wind acolytes really had disintegrating and self-immolating turbines in mind when they began mouthing off these things being spread from horizon … Continue reading Tornado Terror: Giant Industrial Wind Turbines No Match For America’s Twisters
Blown Away: Atlantic Hurricanes Threaten Total Offshore Wind Turbine Wipeout
The purpose of a power generation source is, funnily enough, to generate power as and when it’s needed, not merely to withstand the vagaries of the weather. Wind speeds barely need to reach gale force and these things go into automatic shutdown, as appears on German turbine maker, Siemen’s website – which has this to say … Continue reading Blown Away: Atlantic Hurricanes Threaten Total Offshore Wind Turbine Wipeout
Laughable Lightweights: Wind & Solar Can’t Hold Their Own During ‘Extreme’ Weather
When the wind blows hard enough, the turbines will not only rock, they'll hit the deck with quite a thud - all 250 tonnes or so. And what a gale can do to 280m high turbines, a hail storm can do to seas of solar panels in a matter of minutes (see Charles Rotter's piece … Continue reading Laughable Lightweights: Wind & Solar Can’t Hold Their Own During ‘Extreme’ Weather
Gravity Strikes Again: Ageing Wind Turbines Literally Falling To Pieces
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 … Continue reading Gravity Strikes Again: Ageing Wind Turbines Literally Falling To Pieces
Safety Watch: Neighbours Learn to Dodge Flying Blades From Exploding Wind Turbines
In the last 20 years, the wind industry hasn't generated much power, but it's managed to clock up more than 230 fatalities, and 350 serious injuries according to the helpful collection of stats compiled by Scotland Against Spin available here: https://scotlandagainstspin.org/turbine-accident-statistics/ Routine self-immolation, total collapse and ‘component liberation’ events are among the leading causes of the (wholly … Continue reading Safety Watch: Neighbours Learn to Dodge Flying Blades From Exploding Wind Turbines
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