How ironic it is that a wholly weather dependent power source has such a bitterly hard time coping with the ... ahem ... weather. When Hurricane Maria visited Puerto Rico last year, she managed to splatter wind turbine blades all over the island, leaving residents completely powerless: Weather Dependent Wind Power: Leaves Hurricane Victims Powerless … Continue reading Weather Wages War on Wind Power: Typhoon Topples Turbine in Japan
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Mortal Danger: Wind Turbines Throw Blades, Disintegrate & Collapse with Alarming Regularity
More turbine mayhem, this time it's Siemens turbines - less than 4 years old - collapsing on Maui - an island in the Hawaiian archipelago. Parts fall off wind turbine The Maui News Lee Imada 4 October 2016 The blades, hub and nacelle of one of eight Auwahi Wind turbines in the Kanaio area separated from … Continue reading Mortal Danger: Wind Turbines Throw Blades, Disintegrate & Collapse with Alarming Regularity
Germany: 60-Tonne Wind Turbine Rotor Crashes To Earth
**** 60-Tonne Wind Turbine Rotor Crashes To Earth NoTricksZone Pierre Gosselin 1 March 2016 The online SVZ here reported yesterday on a wind-turbine construction accident occurring in Southern Germany. Workers of the Hamburg-based Nordex company were operating a large hoisting crane by remote control as it lifted the 60-tonne wind turbine rotor assembly for mounting … Continue reading Germany: 60-Tonne Wind Turbine Rotor Crashes To Earth
Life in the “throw zone”
On one level, the images depicted in this video will provide many STT readers with a deep sense of satisfaction, tinged with joy, and bound with glee; or even what the Germans call "schadenfreude": the malicious glee that comes from witnessing another's downfall. **** **** On another level, for those poor souls stuck with these … Continue reading Life in the “throw zone”
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