Wind turbine FAILS

[Mobuck]

The third wind turbine FAIL 'incident' this year. This time, the upright 'stem' folded like a paper tube and parts of the blades were flung considerable distance. Not long ago, another 'lost it's head' so to speak and I think the one before that caught fire.
The entire project is less than 5 years old so structural degradation shouldn't be an issue in such short time. Fortunately, I'm 40 miles away from the 'fall out' (AKA collapse and fall) zone. Looks like all those folks who thought this great idea wasn't at all good were right.
We didn't bother to count how many wind turbines appeared to be leaking oil or had burned in SW Kansas/NW Texas as we passed through there in August but it was a significant number.

 

[GasGuzzler]

There's a farm not far from here that ruined the landscape and divided the people.

 

[Mobuck]

"divided the people"
Yeah, no kidding. Basically, the only ones who liked the idea were the ones getting $2500 per month for the use of their land. Those NOT getting paid still have to tolerate the constant undulating 'WHOOSH WHOOSH'.

 

[GunnyGene]

Putting those in tornado country is not a good idea. I don't know of any in MS.

 

[krw]

The only way “green” solar and wind works is with Govt subsidies. And the Govt is 32 trillion in debt. Nuff said

 

[blume357]

I noticed that on a lot of newer European TV shows, wife and I watch mysteries, they often show them in the back ground.... either on land or even out at sea.
As a side note... when I was very young most of the farms in the county I grew up in, rural S.C., still had the wind mill towers that at one time ran the water well pumps.

 

[Kevin]

Every time I drive south on 45 to Houston, I see three blades going North. They travel in 3’s, so sometimes I see 6 blades.

@GasGuzzler have you seen all the wind turbines over by Snyder Texas? Just north of town there are hundreds of wind turbines. So if they get $2500 per unit that’s a lot of dollars.

 

[jgt]

The wind farms were fought tooth and nail in a lot of places in Texas. The deep state used Emanant Domain laws to shove them down the land owners throat. So please don't blame the landowners. They are the victims in this mess.

 

[GasGuzzler]

I haven't been that far south and west in 30 years or more. There's a rash of turbines from Lindsay northwest past Muenster to the north then over towards Bonita. Can't remember what happened to the Era/Slidell project but I'm pretty sure it went through too ... even after they saw the aftermath of the wind farm to the north. Money warps people. 50% of the landowners are victims and 50% make boat loads of cash and are for the farms and are to blame to a degree.

 

[arfmel]

We still use a lot of windmills to pump water in my area. The only thing an Aermotor windmill has in common with the giant power generation wind turbines is the use of wind.

 

[hittman]

Trump talked about this a bit during his 3 hours with Joe Rogan.
I didn't realize how many whales they were being killing off the shore of New Jersey.
They claim there's always piles of dead birds under them.

 

[rugerguy]

so much for the 'go green', having retired from GE I got to know some of these folks and what it takes to help keep them up and running, the special oil alone used to lubricate them was something else, and what about the weather? , they did not do well in Texas with the "snow & ice" they got not that long ago, NO , sorry NOT a dependable alternative, rather use good old nukes, and if need be change them fron "fusion" to "fission" , whichever, been too many years I been sitting here "idle" and my son Joe is a 'nuke' eng., US Navy, Ohio State grad and runs one for AEP.........

( oh , I did work for the 'AEC', before it became 'NRC'.....)

really sad about any and all the wild life that gets "fubar"......and the tree huggers just keep on 'ticking...........

 

[Chief 101]

The first of these giant wind turbines I witnessed must have been in the mid 1990's was on a farm about 30 miles away where they installed 3 of these behemoths, one next to the ranch house, one next to the barn about 100 yds from the house and one down the road about 100 yds from the barn, I drove by this farm on my way to my favorite fishing hole. I have no idea what happened to them but within a year they had been reduced to three large concrete foundations. Now 30 years later they have turned that farm into a solar panel farm...Now there is a small town and a large AFB within 25 miles so they would have had to run power lines to serve them. The most absurd thing is that the Snake River and a dam is within a few miles of the town and base that already feeds reliable power to the area. I never hear anybody talking about this waste of money and resources but it boggles the mind how this political mismanagement keeps on truckin!

 

[hittman]

https://khqa.com/news/local/wind-turbine-collapses-in-schuyler-county-third-incident-in-six-months#

 

[Ale-8(1)]

https://khqa.com/news/local/wind-turbine-collapses-in-schuyler-county-third-incident-in-six-months#

My mom's extended family was from Schuyler County. I can just hear the neighbors now.

 

[Fox Mike]

There are plans to install turbines about 10-12 miles off the Ocean City MD beach area. I just can;t wait till hurricane "Eatup blades" arrives. They then will not only be a hazard to wildlife but it will be a hazard to navigation

 

[GasGuzzler]

You can see the ones northwest of here from 20+ miles away.

 

[NC FNS]

Was driving west on I-80 in Wyoming years back, was my first time that far west. Thought I’d get to enjoy the beauty of the Rockies, but all I remember is tons of wind turbines, and all the red blinking lights at night.

 

[Mobuck]

Wouldn't take a 'deluge'--more like ONE in the right place.
Those carbon fiber(?) blades have a very limited useful life but an eternity of after life. Driving US Hwy 36 in north MO, one sees a constant flow of blades headed east for Indiana or where ever the wind turbine blade cemetery is.
In July of 2023, I was working a wheat field near a rotating wind turbine with one of my employees. We set up our sample prep station in the only shade which was about 100 yards or so from the tower and after about 30-45 minutes the other guy commented that he wasn't feeling well. I figured it was due to the heat and continued until finally, he just walked away to sit in his vehicle. Later, he commented that his queasy feelings stopped as soon as we left the area close to the tower. Most likely, my severe hearing loss prevented me from noticing or being affected by the 'whooshing' sensations he was hearing/feeling.
Before the turbines were built in Schuyler county, I met several residents who were totally against the project but were forced to accept it or leave. Now I'm seeing similar feelings toward the solar farm in Adair county. All this electricity produced is transmitted by overhead lines toward St Louis further affecting hundreds of others who are forced to allow new, bigger, more complex lines to cross their property (lots of Amish for whom this is a double whammy BTW).