Wind Turbines

**Firebrand** · 12-16-2009, 06:56 PM

Has anyone seen the vids on wind turbine failures? Wow.

Ok, forget the embed.....Here is the url:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2x7u...eature=related

**bobslady** · 12-17-2009, 02:27 AM

My daughter in law works in the factory that makes them. They are having lots of problems with them due to the cold weather. She said they can make something like three a week and now they are lucky to make three a month....not sure about those figures but she said the fiberglass bubbles up, stuff won't dry.

I have no idea if these wind turbines are falling apaprt because of poor consturction or what.

I've seen these wind turbines marching across the midwestern landscape and it's an awsome sight to see these huge blades lazly turning in the wind.

**Debs** · 10-05-2010, 09:07 PM

Wow that exploding was was a bit scarey, I actually really love to see these around, they are a wonderful site (in the right places) and they are helping to save the planet...........

**revkev** · 10-05-2010, 09:43 PM

It looked good on paper.

**fuego** · 10-05-2010, 10:46 PM

Originally Posted by revkev

It looked good on paper.

"These things will make us a ton of money!"

**revkev** · 10-05-2010, 11:05 PM

Originally Posted by fuego

"These things will make us a ton of money!"

It was a lot of wind about a lot of wind.

**FLAME** · 10-06-2010, 01:54 AM

I always thought wind turbines would be great. But I didn't think about this. In a bad storm, it could take awhile to replace them and no power in the meantime

**Debs** · 10-06-2010, 12:41 PM

Originally Posted by revkev

It was a lot of wind about a lot of wind.

**Rasputin** · 12-07-2010, 03:35 PM

Originally Posted by Silverbell Kathy

My daughter in law works in the factory that makes them. They are having lots of problems with them due to the cold weather. She said they can make something like three a week and now they are lucky to make three a month....not sure about those figures but she said the fiberglass bubbles up, stuff won't dry.

I have no idea if these wind turbines are falling apaprt because of poor consturction or what.

I've seen these wind turbines marching across the midwestern landscape and it's an awsome sight to see these huge blades lazly turning in the wind.

Brake failure.

Those turbines have brakes in them to regulate the propeller's revolutions per minute. If the brakes fail, the propeller can go out of control and cause the aftermath that you see in the videos.

Also, not sure which video you saw. The one I usually see, the disaster takes place in Hornslet, Denmark, and the windmill is much smaller than the ones we normally have, and appears to be heavy fiberglass as opposed to a metal alloy.. I'm not sure if that's comforting or not. On the one hand, ours are less likely to tear themselves apart. On the other hand, if they did, it could cause more damage.

Wind turbines are pretty cool, but not practical for mass power production. They take up a lot of space and don't provide the tremendous output demanded by our power consumption rate. They currently provide about 1-3% of the world's total power. To increase that number, we'd have to plant them anywhere and everywhere, and I don't know if you've been directly under them (or within a few acres of them), but they're extremely loud. Typically nobody likes living near them. That said, I wouldn't mind having one... :)