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Bet the wind farms are working well today
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Posted 5 months ago #
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Some kind of design flaw, I think that's the second one today. Should've stuck to burning coal.
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Clearly hit by a meteorite.
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Ah well it could be worser...
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Pic doing the rounds on facebook (Ayrshire I think);
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Another one??
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Thats the windfarm just up from West Kilbride. Would have got a good view of it from the Dalry Moor road.
And a brilliant tail wind up the climb !
Slight technical hitch with feathering the blades perhaps ?
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If it's facing the wrong way, wouldn't that have an adverse effect on the mechanism?
I thought that they stopped them spinning in windy conditions.Posted 5 months ago # -
The torygraph in 'we don't like renewable energy' shocker.
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Gearboxes ,the achilles heal of most large wind turbines
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Apparently the brake failed so it could just freewheel.
Quite amusing really, as we just did a uni assignment on designing a hurricane-proof wind turbine.
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Boilers that freeze, wind turbines that don't work in the wind. Madness.
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Boilers dont usually freeze, its the condensate that runs off from them that freezes, and easy to remedy, just fit some pipe insulation to the exterior pipe.
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So if the brake failed they turned it so the blades were less effective??
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When it got really windy earlier in the year (although not on today's scale) I went with a mate up to Scoutmoor windfarm after watching this vid:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nSB1SdVHqQ(Not a good idea)...
The speed of the blade tips up-close was genuinely awesome....but we were both too scared to stand directly underneath them in case something like this
happened....or we got sucked up into it or suchlike!
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Should they get Rolls Royce to design a proper turbine?
Like this one ...

Trent 1000 ... think it can spin 5 times the speed of sound.
I bet for £2 Million RR can design a scale down version of that ...
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