Huge wind turbines — taller than the Statue of Liberty — are toppling over in a ‘rash’ of incidents – IOTW Report

Huge wind turbines — taller than the Statue of Liberty — are toppling over in a ‘rash’ of incidents

Thursday, 26 January 2023, 13:15 MJA Uncategorized 32

On a calm, sunny day last June, Mike Willey was feeding his cattle when he got a call from the local sheriff’s dispatcher. A motorist had reported that one of the huge turbines at a nearby wind farm had collapsed in dramatic fashion. Willey, chief of the volunteer fire department in Ames, 90 miles northwest of Oklahoma City, set out to survey the scene.

32 Comments on Huge wind turbines — taller than the Statue of Liberty — are toppling over in a ‘rash’ of incidents

  3. It is less then 1400ET 26 Jan
    As of Now
    Benny Johnsons Rumble Wins The Internet
    2 Days In A Row

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    Only watched first fifteen minutes and had to Vote

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  5. Just like in the good old days e cattle rustlers, no trial/ hang them immediately.
    People that have NO CLUE making huge decisions because they get a warm feeling about themselves that they ‘have a seat at the table’.

    Because they had a toy whirlygig when they wore diapers???

    And all the engineers and accomplices that’ve built this shit bear no responsibility? Don’t they have LICENSES to be engineers?

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  6. What do you want to bet they are all insured for double their actual value. So the company doubles their investment without ever making electricity.
    Wind and solar have nothing to do with environmental impact, it’s all about money.
    The bigger joke is ethanol, it cost more to make than it’s worth. Without all the subsidies, the ethanol production would end.

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  8. Ethanol subsidies start with the farmers. Have you ever been curious how much money they make? You can find those in your area here:
    farm.ewg.org

    Here is the top 2, 1995-2020.
    Riceland Foods Inc Stuttgart, AR 72160 $554,343,039
    Producers Rice Mill Inc * Stuttgart, AR 72160 $314,028,012

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  11. Kind of like crop circles and cattle mutilations showing up in the middle of nowhere?

    Are there corn fields nearby? Strange lights and loud shrieking sounds?

    Sounds to me like the visitors don’t like ’em.

    (Hold on. Lemme check my aluminum foil supply.)

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  12. They are no more practicing physicians. An acute care farce needs one physician’s license to hire physician’s assistants, nurse practitioners, yada yada.

    Your physician retired when oBozo/Shitpants/Pelosi screwed us all. It was a historic BFD.

    As to engineers, someone somewhere is accountable for the building of this historic crime. That the politicians needed culling decades ago is another layer of disgust.

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  17. Jethro
    Yep, regardless of the frequency. I’m curious as to what they’re making their “steel” uprights out of. But I’ll guarantee you there’s a sweet spot 72% of the way down that upright that ends up harder than Billy Hell. Snap.
    However the one picture they showed was shaken right out of the ground.

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  20. Jethro

    I don’t know if you’re a cad jockey or not, but both Solid Works and Pro’s behavioral modeling packages are bad ass. It’s really cool to spot these problems at the design phase.

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  23. Jethro

    Yes, in 4340. Vacmelt. Interesting process. I’ve never used the stainless versions. A lot of the air frame parts for the B1B spec that stuff. It actually machine fairly well.
    There’s an aluminum version too. KPS 1000. It’s a vertically cast aluminum in a vacuum that eliminated porosity. The cool thing about it is there’s no stress in it. So it lays flat no matter how you cut it.

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  25. I use Solid works a lot. Our process is model up old airplane parts, dimension back to the print, and then use the model to drive tool path. A big video game. But I’ve been doing for a while and still get a lot of satisfaction out of it.
    I’ve met some young snot nosed Cad Jockeys that are amazing actually. They’re like an extension of the computer.

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  26. I accidently got some prototype parts made out of it and didn’t know it. they were so tough they wouldn’t fail the life tests we ran. fooled us into thinking our design was good. then the pilot production parts were tested and failed miserably. it took months to figure it out. I call vim var steel “miraculum”.

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  28. I think you all are talking about resonant frequency and oscillation. One of my job duties was to run a vibration table. You hit something’s resonant frequency and it will literally shake itself apart.

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  32. Wild Bill – Yep. Have you seen the vibration tables at NASA Lewis (now Glenn)?
    They’re the biggies! When I was there they were driving them with a room full of HP Amplifiers.

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