‘We rushed outside wondering what on earth had happened,’ recalls Bill. ‘We thought perhaps a plane had crashed it was such a loud noise. ‘We couldn’t see flames or anything burning, even though we peered out in the direction it had come from. There was nothing else though, no more noise or aftershocks.’
Deafeningly loud it might have been, but what the Jarvis family had heard – as they were to discover the following morning – had taken place at Bradworthy, a mile away. It was the noise of a 115ft-high wind turbine crashing to the ground.
h/t Rod
Imagine how many water towers we’d have if they caught fire, disintegrated or came crashing down with this kind of frequency?
Wind towers installed by the very flower of English workers, all unionized. Even in the Soviet Union,
incompetent workers always had the threat of Siberia hanging over them.
Great technology. An electrical generator powered by the wind that gets blown down because it’s windy.
I think it grand that they are falling down…!! and I suspect that pretty soon in Ontario you may see people blowing them up .. so they fall down.
Wind Power = Total Economic disaster.
Becasue they run on subsidies…not wind.
Wind companies are secretive…damn straight they are. Anyone would be when it is massive collusion – payoffs and outright bribery to Provincial Govt persons with the ability to smooth the way. See Dalton McGuinty and his new Municipalitiy Laws…where the Province can ride roughshod over any village/town to impose their Wind Bag BS.
I call that Tyranny
It was the noise of a 115ft-high wind turbine crashing to the ground.
I think of it as the sound of progress.
Ironic that someone with an organization built on “scaremongering” now finds it to be a problem.
Now, if only these monsters that pollute the landscapes and kill birds in Green wacky Liberal Ontario would start falling like dominoes……
To think that this could have killed someone.
Is that what “green” activists are waiting for?
As I read somewhere;
Wind turbines don’t run on wind, they run on government subsidies.
Reminds me of the old question “If a tree falls down in a forest and no one is there to hear it, did it make any noise?”
I guess wind turbine towers provide better “coverage” that trees. (as in “Can you hear me now?”)
Blown Down because its windy. ha
that’s golden..
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This one,
Almost hits a house..
http://www.worldvideofans.com/en/video/-YJuFvjtM0s/Windmill-Disaster
Good
Get outside the cities Liz, and Ontario is pretty conservative. It’s London, Toronto and Ottawa that have been “voting for the rest of us.” And there’s a growing movement that toronto should form it’s own province to save us from their stupidity.
The wind turbines already have killed people – 4 to be exact. A little reported aviation accident occurred in Virginia last March, in which a light air craft carrying 3 passengers and the pilot crashed into a wind turbine at night because the turbine did not have red navigation lights attached to it. It was little reported because it does not fit in with the green agenda at the major news agencies.
http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2014/09/heres-deal-big-un-climate-summit-next-week
Regardless of how we feel about bird blenders and friers, the world is coming to NYC to talk about the impending disaster of climate change. The left sites predict 200,000 environmentally concerned activists will show up to intimidate the politicians.
I hope we can count on the President to stand firm and NOT enacya pile of new taxes and legislation to make the planet safer,and the taxpayers suffer.
It’s time to make this so widely known that people in space stations hear about it.
Might this be an omen for the Scottish vote? An odd noise off in the distance, having something vaguely to do with wind.
Consider that the -blades- of the wind mills being installed in Ontario right now are longer than 115 feet.
That’s going to make quite a bang when it falls down, eh?
Incidentally, regarding the talk about bearings and Brinelling we had here the other day: there have been half a dozen machines erected right across from the town of Cayuga which have not moved at all since being put up in July. So either Samsung has found sme magic formula to beat the flattening of transmission and main bearings that sit still and get pounded by the wind, or those machines are f-ed already.
I love government. It wastes money so efficiently.
Is this the one you mean?
April 2014 – A single-engine plane crashed into a South Dakota wind farm after flying through fog and low-hanging clouds on Monday, killing all four passengers on board.
“I think of it as the sound of progress.”
Well said.
Apropos of the “if a tree falls in the forest…” question.
If a 300 ft tall windmill falls in a farmer’s field in Haldimand and nobody is there to hear it…
…will it still save the Ontario taxpayer a million bucks a year, every year the windmill is down?
If the wind monstrosities were producing power when we need it instead of when we don’t and we’re forced to sell it at a loss,they’re still the dumbest idea ever, never going to pay for themselves and cost us dearly beyond even the money factor. Insanity reigns supreme in beyond dumb Liberal Ontario. We still haven’t seen the real cost of their green stupidity, we’re just not bright enough to be told the truth, we might get depressed and be a drain on their already strained and drained medical system.