Safety Claims Incinerated: Locals Smothered With Toxic Smoke From Burning Wind Turbines

When 300-tonne wind turbines spontaneously explode into giant toxic fireballs, locals have more contend with than the risk of bushfires (or ‘wildfires’ as Americans call them). Packed with flammable and toxic oils, plastics, fibreglass and low-ignition point metals, like aluminium, when one of these things spontaneously bursts into flames, everybody for miles around knows all … Continue reading Safety Claims Incinerated: Locals Smothered With Toxic Smoke From Burning Wind Turbines

Red Alert: Self-Immolating Wind Turbines Pose Constant Summer Bushfire Threat

Giant industrial wind turbines habitually explode into terrifying fireballs, spewing toxic smoke and raining tonnes of flaming plastics and molten metals earthward. In winter it probably provides locals with a kind of amusing pyrotechnic distraction. However, in the height of summer, with the country a tinderbox and fuel loads at their peak, not so much. … Continue reading Red Alert: Self-Immolating Wind Turbines Pose Constant Summer Bushfire Threat

Environmental Disaster: Wind Turbines Continually Catch Fire, Throw Blades & Collapse

California’s wind power proponents promised a clean, green future - instead, they’ve delivered a wholesale environmental disaster. In the desert surrounding Ocotillo, locals have been putting up with wind turbines self-immolating, throwing their blades in all directions, leaking and spraying oil and collapsing to the desert floor, for years now (see our post here). Here’s … Continue reading Environmental Disaster: Wind Turbines Continually Catch Fire, Throw Blades & Collapse

Clear & Present Danger: Industrial Wind Turbines Pose Permanent Wildfire Threat

Contrary to their ‘super-safe’, ‘clean’, ‘green’ image, giant industrial wind turbines are the perfect incendiary device. Around the world, hundreds have exploded into in palls of smoke and balls of flame – in the process – each one raining molten metal and over 1,000 litres of flaming gear oil and hydraulic fluid (see our post here) … Continue reading Clear & Present Danger: Industrial Wind Turbines Pose Permanent Wildfire Threat