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Bet the wind farms are working well today

16 posts & 12 voices | Started 5 months ago by jonba | Latest reply from chewkw

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jonba - Member

Or maybe not

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/8943507/Parts-of-Britain-are-battered-by-gale-force-winds-and-storms.html

Posted 5 months ago #
don simon - Member

Some kind of design flaw, I think that's the second one today. Should've stuck to burning coal.

Posted 5 months ago #
thegreatape - Member

Clearly hit by a meteorite.

Posted 5 months ago #
Elfinsafety - Member

Ah well it could be worser...

Posted 5 months ago #
Duane... - Member

Pic doing the rounds on facebook (Ayrshire I think);

Posted 5 months ago #
don simon - Member

Another one??

Posted 5 months ago #
stucol - Member

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 ?

Posted 5 months ago #
don simon - Member

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 #
kenneththecurtain - Member

The torygraph in 'we don't like renewable energy' shocker.

Posted 5 months ago #
thedevelopmentengineer - Member

Gearboxes ,the achilles heal of most large wind turbines

Posted 5 months ago #
Duane... - Member

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.

Posted 5 months ago #
paulosoxo - Member

Boilers that freeze, wind turbines that don't work in the wind. Madness.

Posted 5 months ago #
project - Member

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.

Posted 5 months ago #
thedevelopmentengineer - Member

So if the brake failed they turned it so the blades were less effective??

Posted 5 months ago #
albino - Member

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!

Posted 5 months ago #
chewkw - Member

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 ...

Posted 5 months ago #