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| More Wind Turbine Problems |
| 2024-08-28 |
| [Hot Air] Wind turbines in Schuyler County, Missouri, seem to be having problems remaining upright. This happened Sunday morning. And as I looked around for more information, there were more turbines in Schuyler County that had either gone over or had chunks fly off onto the deck below. This turbine came down in April in the same county and is owned by the same company. All wind turbines in Adair and Schuyler counties have been temporarily turned off while Ameren tries to figure out why the entire top of one turbine fell to the ground late last week and was destroyed. The offshore wind industry is waking up to more disheartening news- another GE Vernova turbine blade has failed, this one off the northeast coast of England. The failure occurred Thursday morning on an installed GE Vernova’s Haliade-X turbine at Dogger Bank A offshore wind farm. The towers planned right now for the East Coast are enormous, and I haven't seen the stats for the floating turbines they want for the Pacific. But the newest turbines planned for off-shore projects in the UK are mind-numbingly huge - obscenely so. And will cover hundreds of square miles of ocean. And there was one more little nugget of information I learned about these massive abominations where none should be, and I really thought about it when I read of the fishermen's defiant boat parade around the Vineyard Wind towers. In the U.S., the radar interference issue emerged when Cape Wind was proposed and the potential of its wind turbines to disrupt the radar of neighboring military bases became a concern. The initial solution was to propose a huge vessel exclusionary area around the 24-square-mile wind farm. The issue has not gone away as the Coast Guard has noted that radar interference will prevent it from conducting search-and-rescue operations within wind farms. Given the size of proposed East Coast wind farms, substantial areas where commercial and sport fishing is done, and where commercial ships and pleasure boats transit, the loss of the Coast Guard’s ability to operate in fulfillment of its mission is unacceptable. That's before one even gets to the part about some of these towers being built 500+ feet above the FAA standards for air traffic. The Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind turbines stand 1,057 feet tall, 548 feet above the FAA standard. The wind turbines of Empire Offshore Wind are 952 feet tall, 453 feet above the allowed height. |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #1 https://www.13abc.com/2024/04/04/company-determines-what-caused-wind-turbine-blade-fall-off-findlay/ I was in Findlay, Ohio recently. There are wind turbine problems there too. Turbine blades have been falling off. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2024-08-28 18:40 |