Wind Power

[RichardCranium]

This is a long page of details of turbine failures:

Windbyte - Wind farms in North East England, the Scottish Borders and Lothians - Wind Turbine Safety

Residents were left fearing for their safety after shards of melting ice fell on homes and gardens from the blades of a giant wind turbine. For about four hours people in King's Dyke, Whittlesey, had to take cover as huge lumps – some two feet long – showered them from the 80 metre high tower on Saturday morning.

Freezing overnight temperatures had caused the ice to form and after frantic calls to Truro-based firm Cornwall Light and Power, which owns the turbine, the £2 million machine was eventually turned off.

Children at an island primary were sent home after a newly-installed wind turbine next to their school collapsed.

Parents of youngsters at the 18-pupil Raasay Primary School were asked to collect their children following the incident on November 13.

The 6KW machine was installed at the school earlier this month, but was soon the subject of complaints due to the noise it was making.

The turbine then collapsed, landing in the school’s playground.

Barbara Ellsworth was troubled, but not surprised Saturday morning when she spotted a broken blade on a wind tower near her home.

Ellsworth and her husband Mike live three miles south of Marseilles on East 2450th Road, about 1,200 feet from a wind turbine and about 2,500 feet from one of the two towers damaged during the weekend, possibly by high winds.

A 23 metre turbine blade, weighing some 3 tonnes, broke off and landed on the N245 road between Oudkarspel and Dirkshorn, Holland.

[TykeMerc]

Looks to me like they forgot to inflate it.

True

Some impressive photographs in that lot.

I've no objection to wind farms so long as they make sound financial sense and aren't erected on the premise that they're vastly "greener" than other forms of generation.

[Doggy Styles]

I read in yesterday's Times (or was it Evening Standard?) that 'elf an' safety won't let council staff use step-ladders to change light-bulbs.

So how come they allow wind turbines that bombard the surrounding area with killer ice shards?

I think we should be told.

[DimPrawn]

Probably safer to burn a bit of gas, oil or coal and live with the 0.05 deg C rise in base temperature we will see in 1000 years time.

But no, we must listen to the s

[RichardCranium]

So how come they allow wind turbines that bombard the surrounding area with killer ice shards?

That seems to be covered by this page. It describes how the developers fiddle planning surveys and planning meetings.

[DimPrawn]

I'd be calling the "Where there's blame, there's a claim - no win no fee" if any windmill debris damaged anything or injured me!

[Dearnla]

True

Some impressive photographs in that lot.

I've no objection to wind farms so long as they're NOT IN MY BACK YARD.

[minestrone]

Scotland are now angling for energy reservoirs in Norway with us laying down a cable between Norway and here with us building enough wind turbines in the north sea to do enough power to cover the whole of the UK.

Feckin lunacy if you ask me.

[TykeMerc]

Scotland are now angling for energy reservoirs in Norway with us laying down a cable between Norway and here with us building enough wind turbines in the north sea to do enough power to cover the whole of the UK.

Feckin lunacy if you ask me.

Monstrously expensive too I'd guess.

Maintenance in the North Sea isn't exactly easy and construction would be a major bitch even close in shore. The breakeven period would be massive if not indefinite.

[Doggy Styles]

Actually that is a sadly familiar sight after downing several pints and attempting to address carnal needs in a field.

Coincidentally I never saw her again.