January 23, 2023 at 1:00 AM PST
On a calm, sunny day last June, Mike Willey was feeding his cattle when he got a call from the local sheriff’s dispatcher. A motorist had reported that one of the huge turbines at a nearby wind farm had collapsed in dramatic fashion. Willey, chief of the volunteer fire department in Ames, 90 miles northwest of Oklahoma City, set out to survey the scene.
The steel tower, which once stood hundreds of feet tall, was buckled in half, and the turbine blades, whose rotation took the machine higher than the Statue of Liberty, were splayed across the wheat field below. The turbine, made by General Electric Co., had been in operation less than a year. “It fell pretty much right on top of itself,” Willey says.
Another GE turbine of the same model collapsed in Colorado a few days later. That wind farm’s owner-operator, NextEra Energy Inc., later attributed it to a blade flaw and said it and GE had taken steps to prevent future mishaps. A spokesperson for GE declined to say what went wrong in both cases in a statement to Bloomberg.
The instances are part of a rash of recent wind turbine malfunctions across the US and Europe, ranging from failures of key components to full collapses. Some industry veterans say they’re happening more often, even if the events are occurring at only a small fraction of installed machines. The problems have added hundreds of millions of dollars in costs for the three largest Western turbine makers, GE, Vestas Wind Systems and Siemens Energy’s Siemens Gamesa unit; and they could result in more expensive insurance policies—a potential setback for the push to abandon fossil fuels and fight climate change.
The race to add production lines for ever-bigger turbines is cited as a major culprit by people in the industry. “We’re seeing these failures happening in a shorter time frame on the newer turbines, and that’s quite concerning,” says Fraser McLachlan, chief executive officer of London-based GCube Underwriting Ltd., which insures about $3.5 billion in wind assets in 38 countries. If the failure rate keeps climbing, he says, insurance premiums could increase or new coverage limits could be imposed.
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Wind Turbines Taller Than the Statue of Liberty Are Falling Over
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Wind Turbines Taller Than the Statue of Liberty Are Falling Over
KARMA RULES
Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities, Can Make You Commit Atrocities': Voltaire
Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities, Can Make You Commit Atrocities': Voltaire
Re: Wind Turbines Taller Than the Statue of Liberty Are Falling Over
Slice and dice or cooking fly overs, Nothing utopian about already out dated "The New Green Energy" Scam.
Unless you don't mind living With Out Birds, Bees , Bugs in general?
Unless you don't mind living With Out Birds, Bees , Bugs in general?
KARMA RULES
Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities, Can Make You Commit Atrocities': Voltaire
Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities, Can Make You Commit Atrocities': Voltaire
Re: Wind Turbines Taller Than the Statue of Liberty Are Falling Over
Here's a novel idea, why don't we grow food instead of wind-farms. Stop paying Farmers NOT to farm
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KARMA RULES
Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities, Can Make You Commit Atrocities': Voltaire
Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities, Can Make You Commit Atrocities': Voltaire
Re: Wind Turbines Taller Than the Statue of Liberty Are Falling Over
Sounds perfectly sane & reasonable to me. But that's why Wokies will reject it
Seeing isn't believing. Towering wind turbines crashing to the ground isn't part of their perfect world
Fantasy over facts! Denial is their bread & butter. They can't comprehend objective reality
We live in irrational times
A mind should not be so open that the brains fall out; however, it should not be so closed that whatever gray matter which does reside may not be reached. ART BELL
Everything Woke turns to -Donald Trump
Everything Woke turns to -Donald Trump
Where You Gonna Put Them Wind Turbines?
Citizens stubbornly resist their government’s determination to erect “green” facilities everywhere. Germany has encountered this problem, & the same is happening in the U.S.
Urban liberals may not care how their electricity is generated, but people who have to live in the vicinity of hundreds of intrusive, ugly and perhaps dangerous wind turbines don’t like it.
"What's that, you say? You want to build structures as tall as Lady Liberty that could collapse at any moment? Near ME? Yeah right! Eff that Ess. NIMBY today, NIMBY tomorrow, NIMBY forever"
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Urban liberals may not care how their electricity is generated, but people who have to live in the vicinity of hundreds of intrusive, ugly and perhaps dangerous wind turbines don’t like it.
"What's that, you say? You want to build structures as tall as Lady Liberty that could collapse at any moment? Near ME? Yeah right! Eff that Ess. NIMBY today, NIMBY tomorrow, NIMBY forever"
FULL STORY
A mind should not be so open that the brains fall out; however, it should not be so closed that whatever gray matter which does reside may not be reached. ART BELL
Everything Woke turns to -Donald Trump
Everything Woke turns to -Donald Trump