**** Wind power outfits still make wild claims about these things running on the smell of an oily rag and lasting for 25 years or more, needing little more than a hug from time to time. However, the operations and maintenance cost of these things is around $25 per MWh - hardly the zero marginal … Continue reading Wind Power Investors Fleeced: Teenage Turbines Falling Apart in Donegal
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‘Wrap-Up’ on Reign of Wind Farm Terror: Blades Buckle and Turbines Tumble in Michigan
Is there anything that can be said for a medieval power source that was abandoned Centuries ago for pretty obvious reasons? Pointless it most certainly is. But, along with that lack of justification on any level, comes a form of danger never seen before at any time in history: 10 tonne blades (with their outer … Continue reading ‘Wrap-Up’ on Reign of Wind Farm Terror: Blades Buckle and Turbines Tumble in Michigan
Wind Turbine Terror: Spanish Home Hit by Flying Blade – Just 1 of 3,800 Blade ‘Fails’ Every Year
**** The number of cases involving collapsing turbines and flying blades (aka “component liberation”) has become so common that, if we were a tad cynical, we would go so far to suggest the possibility of some kind of pattern, along the lines proffered by Mr Bond’s nemesis, Goldfinger: “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three … Continue reading Wind Turbine Terror: Spanish Home Hit by Flying Blade – Just 1 of 3,800 Blade ‘Fails’ Every Year
Deadly Aircraft/Turbine Disaster at Highland Wind Farms ‘Just a matter of time’
**** A couple of weeks back, we looked at a report on how the RAF’s best of the best have been involved in dozens of near misses with these things in the UK, unnecessarily risking their lives every time they hit the skies: RAF’s Top Guns Call Wind Farms a ‘Disaster in the Making’ for … Continue reading Deadly Aircraft/Turbine Disaster at Highland Wind Farms ‘Just a matter of time’
Wind Turbine Blade Throw: Senate Inquiry Gives Chance to Hammer Insanely Dangerous Setback Rules: Submissions Extended to 4 May
**** The number of cases involving collapsing turbines and flying blades (aka “component liberation”) has become so common that, if we were a tad cynical, we would go so far to suggest the possibility of some kind of pattern, along the lines proffered by Mr Bond’s nemesis, Goldfinger: “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three … Continue reading Wind Turbine Blade Throw: Senate Inquiry Gives Chance to Hammer Insanely Dangerous Setback Rules: Submissions Extended to 4 May
Berserk Warriors: it’s the Dane’s Turn to Take Cover as (Yet) Another Turbine Self-Destructs
*** Remember all those stories about wind turbines lasting for 25 years – without so much as the need for an oil-change – and being “safe as houses”? Well, as STT followers well-know those ‘stories’ are unraveling at a rocketing rate – with giant fans collapsing in crumpled heaps; spontaneously combusting; and throwing blades to … Continue reading Berserk Warriors: it’s the Dane’s Turn to Take Cover as (Yet) Another Turbine Self-Destructs
Wind Farms: As “Safe as Houses”
**** STT has worked pretty solidly to cover the increasing numbers of turbine blades that routinely unshackle themselves in bids for airborne freedom, troublesome events, which the wind industry euphemistically calls “component liberation” (see our posts here and here and here and here). But lately, STT has been working over-time to keep up with the … Continue reading Wind Farms: As “Safe as Houses”
More Wind Turbine Terror: Blades Thrown to the Four-Winds in Ireland
**** The Irish seem to have had all the “luck” lately. We only just reported on a turbine that tumbled back to earth in County Tyrone, Ulster a week or so back - with a sound like an “exploding bomb” (see our post here). And have been reporting about tumbling turbines and flying blades so … Continue reading More Wind Turbine Terror: Blades Thrown to the Four-Winds in Ireland
Tumbling Turbine Terror Continues: Another One Bites the Dust – this time it’s Ireland’s Turn
**** No sooner had the ink dried, so to speak, on our post earlier this week about collapsing turbines and flying blades (aka “component liberation”) than yet another tale of tumbling turbine terror and blades bidding for airborne freedom erupted from the (otherwise) pleasant fields of the Emerald Isle. If we were a tad cynical, … Continue reading Tumbling Turbine Terror Continues: Another One Bites the Dust – this time it’s Ireland’s Turn
Wind Industry In Freefall: Wind Turbines Keep Dropping Like Flies & Hard Hats Won’t Help
**** A little while back we covered a spate of turbine collapses across the UK – terrorising locals not used to the sky-falling in around them on a regular basis (see our post here). And we recently covered the terror being wrought in schoolyards in Scotland by collapsing fans and flying blades in this post. … Continue reading Wind Industry In Freefall: Wind Turbines Keep Dropping Like Flies & Hard Hats Won’t Help
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