Ocotillo wind turbine falls

[SidDithers]

http://www.kyma.com/news/ocotillo/ocotillo-wind-turbine-falls/179646202

Thankfully, no injuries. Could have been disastrous, though. I've heard those blades can fly miles.

Sid

[Duckhunter935]

1. Very rare event

Never heard miles

[SidDithers]

3. You must have missed previous discussions about wind at DU...

Where a recently, finally, banned DU know-it-all assured us that flying blades from a failing wind turbine could fly up to a mile.

Obviously that wasn't correct.

I'm a big fan of wind power (!), and agree that failures like this are exceedingly rare, and pose very little, if any, danger to persons or the surrounding environment.



Sid

[mountain grammy]

2. It is a terrible failure and could have caused damage.

Glad no one was injured. But, to put this in perspective with, say, an oil rig failure or pipeline blowout, we're not looking at years of cleanup and environmental impacts.

[geomon666]

5. Yeah, I'll take a fallen turbine

over say a coal mine fire like in Centralia, Pennsylvania that's been burning for decades or a meltdown of a nuclear power plant that leaves the entire area uninhabitable.

[nolabels]

4. Kinda looks like it got E.D., maybe they should try some viagra?

For heaven's sake, it's probably just little miscalculation by one those Trump College engineering graduates

[ryan_cats]

6. Miles

Miles and miles, that is exactly what I thought when I saw your headline.
They also cause autism.

[SidDithers]

7. Stray voltage and cancer clusters...

ah, memories.



Sid

[ryan_cats]

8. I go

I go out of my way to find homes and adopt out stray voltages. It is so fulfilling.

[pintobean]

9. RSD got scooped again.

I LOLed when I saw your thread title. Didn't know about the PPR.

Ah, the memories.

[SidDithers]

11. Somewhere, Jay Polk is laughing...

Sid

[pintobean]

12. Crunchy.

[randome]

10. Trump is testing out a new weapon to clear his Scottish golf course of wind turbines. Sad.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]

[NCTraveler]

13. .