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Are they cleaning up the dead birds and bats first, before they allow photos?
The article repeats the mantra 5 times regarding the safety of wind power or the rarity of catastrophic failure so they’re just a little stressed right now, that’s all.
BTW the tower hadn’t generated any power at all when it fell so that particular device hadn’t killed even 1 bird.
If a wind turbine falls in Scotland and no one is around, does it make a sound?
Sounds like an inside job like 9/11?
/sarc
Ontario is the Wynne/wind turbine capital of Canada…they are whirring and whumping down the birds and bats and making enough power to give away to our neighbours to the south, meanwhile back at the farm, we are paying the highest power rates on the North American continent.
It makes no difference. The idiots will just keep erecting them.
Och, the puur wee thing.
Somebody’s insurance company is going to be very unhappy.
Wind and harmonics can do the damndest things to metal, given a chance.
This quote is interesting: “The Ayrshire Post’s source says the 328-foot tower “creased” at the access door at ground level”.
Although it is not at all clear, I took this to mean there was a structural buckle sometime well prior to collapse. I say this because if it happened at collapse, a deformation at the door would hardly be notable amidst all the destruction after collapse. If my suspicions are correct, they are indeed justified to be very concerned.
and when ever I drive by those sumbitches, they are in “park”. I doubt that they are producing power at more than 10% rate when ever I drive by
Some places in Scotland get rather windy. I suppose that’s where you would want to put one of these doo-hickeys.
The ones around here are just as tall, and quite a few of them were put up in a tearing hurry before the last Ontario election.
Wouldn’t take much of a shift in the foundation core of a thing like that to make it fall down. The forces on those pylons are large, let’s just say. If somebody skimped on the gravel in the concrete a little bit, maybe missed a couple rebar runs, that’s all it would take.
But I’m sure that could never happen, what with all the inspections and oversight our constructuion businesses have, here in Ontario. Nothing could ever go wrong! We are in the best of hands, yes we are. Uh huh. For sure. No question about it. Nope. Not one.
328 feet is only six feet, ten inches (208 cm) per story if there are 48 stories. 33 stories is probably closer. Still quite tall.
They’re immense. Really, the blades alone are 180+ feet each. Monumental.
Obviously … Chinese steel
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