Blade Falls off 400-Foot Wind Turbine in Gloucester; No Injuries Reported – IOTW Report

Blade Falls off 400-Foot Wind Turbine in Gloucester; No Injuries Reported

MassLive: A 400-foot-tall wind turbine in Gloucester suffered a mechanical failure Sunday morning causing one of the turbine’s blades to fall to the ground.

The wind turbine is at Applied Materials on Dory Road in Blackburn Industrial Park. Gloucester Fire Department received a report of the incident at approximately 7 a.m. Sunday, according to a news release.

The fire department and the city are working with Applied Materials to establish an appropriate isolation area around the turbine to ensure the safety of the structure and people around it. more

14 Comments on Blade Falls off 400-Foot Wind Turbine in Gloucester; No Injuries Reported

  1. “an appropriate isolation area around the turbine to ensure the safety of the structure and people around it.”

    Tell me the whole damned thing is coming down without telling me the whole damned thing is coming down.

    The same people who freak out about microwave towers and power lines are perfectly happy to live and work in the shadow of these whirligig monstrosities.

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  2. Granted, when there is a malfunction at a nuclear power plant it’s big news. How many times over the years has that actually happened?

    Most of our power locally comes from dams (water) and you never hear of anything shutting them down. I guess because of redundancies.

    But these wind monsters are constantly falling apart. Meaning they can’t even handle the thing they are supposed to be harnessing. How is that reliable?

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  3. So add these blades to that massive stockpile of “expired” blades in that Montana landfill. Has anybody calculated the total carbon footprint of the manufacturing, maintenance, dismantling, and disposal of these things?

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  4. BevWKy,

    Agreed.

    Keep in mind, the Nuke Plants are all getting VERY old since most governments make NEW BUILDS Almost impossible.

    Fukushima was built in 1971.
    It was 40 years old when the earthquake hit.

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  5. @BevWKy
    AUGUST 2, 2022 AT 10:35 AM
    “Most of our power locally comes from dams (water) and you never hear of anything shutting them down.”

    Uh…The environazis are shutting down dams all over the west.

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  6. @Tony R
    “Uh…The environazis are shutting down dams all over the west.”

    Well, yeah, out west water supply is a problem. But we’re in the Ohio/Tennessee River Valleys with water to spare most of the time.

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  7. I have a friend who lives in sight of the windmill. It was advertised to supply power to the grid of the town of Gloucester. It ended up only providing enough port for the small office park nearby the generator location, a small fraction of the advertised power. Most there now consider it an eyesore. Maybe this will be its death knell.

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