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  • Online Classes
    Thank you for your thoughtful post! Nice blog.
  • Wind And Your Wallet
    Plenty more things that wind turbine manufactures dont like you to see!! www.windandyourwallet.com
 

Dec 22
2008

Posted by richard

I am a proponent of wind turbines, in fact any renewable energy in general. Of course we only see the good side of it, not the problems that the world has had with them. This post in particular focuses on wind turbines, and some of the spectacular accidents that have occurred.

These don’t detract from the good that wind turbines do, or the carbon footprint they generally reduce. It’s just interesting to see when they go wrong!

This one is one of two Vestas wind turbines that collapsed:

Turbine Accident One

This is a video link of a Danish wind turbine destroying itself in high winds:

This is a collapsed wind turbine in a Scottish wind farm:

These are photos of a wind turbine catching fire and collapsing at Burnham-on-sea.

This is an accident on a turbine blade from 2006 in Germany:

Here is a wind turbine that caught fire in late 2006 in Holland:

Here’s another one that had it’s blades sheared off, in Germany:

And another one in Germany:

This shows a collapsed wind turbine in Oregon, where a man died:

Here’s a wind turbine that caught fire and lost two of its blades:

A wind turbine has caught fire in Minnesota, with smoke pouring from the base too:

Here’s one that collapsed in Sherman County, Oregon in 2007. One man lost his life and another was injured.

Links to other ones (without images):

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  • richard
    So what are they putting in place of it? Fixing the road system? Got pics?
  • MrCorey
    By the way, that old ugly bashed in pile of eyesore bricks was finally brought to the ground today! Woo ...
 

Apr 9
2008

Posted by richard

Being a rather rural area the people around here tend to have a very environmentally friendly outlook. With lots of farms, farmers, and so on, you would think that the general outlook here would be to take care of the environment, not pollute etc.,

Tonight, getting home from work, I see the local newspaper on the floor – the Louth Target. The first front page article is about the wind farm down the road in Conisholme. Here’s a few excerpts:

Completion brings the total number of turbines to 20, providing power to more than 13,000 homes – more than a quarter of all homes in East Lindsey.

Yay! So a quarter of the local council’s housing stock is powered through natural means.

There’s more, however:

East Lindsey District councillors granted approval more than two years ago but residents and environmental groups opposed the construction and joined forces with other groups against wind turbines in a countywide pressure group, Lincolnshire Opposed to Onshore Turbines.

They initially succeeded in persuading East Lindsey planning councillors to reject the turbines at Conisholme because of environmental impact on the character of the Marsh landscape, including Louth’s St James’ Church spire.

The thing is – Conisholme is miles away from Louth. It’s difficult to see them from the A16, and in Louth, nestled at the foot of the Wolds, is going to be absolutely unimpacted by a wind turbine farm.

More importantly though is the environmental impact. What impact? There are not protected bird sanctuaries here, it’s farmland, flat and lots of arable fields. It amazes me that people in this day and age are still so resistant to using natural elements for power rather than coal or gas.

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    Yes our manufacturing capability is poor, we import most from europe. Here in the East Lindsey area of Lincolnshire, the ...
  • RitaS
    Wind turbines around the coast - good idea in principle, and they will make a contribution ... BUT our manufacturing ...
 

Dec 9
2007

Posted by richard

I’m all for wind turbines. I mean just take a look at the UK, it’s a big island with hundreds of other small islands, and pretty much 50% or more is rocky shore with no great appeal. Certainly, some fabulous places to visit, very pretty, pictoresque and so on, but a lot isn’t. So why not place wind turbines offshore?

That’s just what the Government is planning on doing, and I for one am very happy! We -should- take the lead in this technology, pour money into it, actually be the leader in something for a change (because God knows, we let every bugger else steal it when we do). They want 2 wind turbines for each mile of coast we have. That’s a lot of wind turbines:

There could be more than two offshore wind turbines per mile of UK coastline under plans being set out by ministers.

Business Secretary John Hutton says he wants to open up British seas to allow enough new turbines – up to 7,000 – to power all UK homes by the year 2020.

Finally, something decent from a Labour government…

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