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Ardrossan turbine fire from the news


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Oddly enough it's the same model as the one that caught fire at the (Nissan?) factory in Sunderland the other year. That suffered from a pitch failure and caught fire from the overheating mechanical brake disk.

 

For the most part turbines rely on aerodynamic braking from the huge drag you can summon by putting the blades at 90 degrees to the wind.

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No, you're right, its just poor engineering. That Vestas turbine design is over 15 years old now though, and things have moved on. What ever pitch system they have obviously isn't very fail safe, and if it fails in high winds with some angle still on the blades, they are going to still do what they were designed for - to catch wind!

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Mad! Just was reading about this on the news. I had visions of it spinning around so fast that the propellers end up flying off like ninja stars causing no end of damage!

Now that would be far more entertaining :lol:

 

Like this one? ;)

 

If you look, you can see the solid multi-tonne lump of the generator hit the ground near the srevice van! :headhurt:

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Holy cow. :scare:

 

Was that a transit parked under it? I would not want to be trying to explain that one to the insurance company!

 

"I only went back to the van to get a screw driver....."

 

Theres no end of wind turbines around my way, I darent drive by them now after seeing that clip! :scare:

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Well at least they wont have to carry their tools very far :lol:

 

Mad! Just was reading about this on the news. I had visions of it spinning around so fast that the propellers end up flying off like ninja stars causing no end of damage!

Now that would be far more entertaining :lol:

 

Like this one? ;)

 

If you look, you can see the solid multi-tonne lump of the generator hit the ground near the srevice van! :headhurt:

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