Major accident at Iowa wind farm

[kristopher]

Siemens Turbine Rotor Blade Breaks Off At Iowa Wind Farm
Tuesday 09 April 2013

A rotor blade of a Siemens SWT-2.3-108 wind turbine broke off at the Eclipse wind farm, a 200 MW project located in Guthrie and Audubon counties, Iowa.

According to a statement from Siemens, a company service technician discovered the rotor blade on the ground Friday, and there were no injuries. Siemens says such an incident affecting this blade type has never happened, and the company has deployed a team to investigate the blade’s production, installation, commissioning and service.

“We don’t yet know why this happened, but we are committed to conducting a detailed engineering analysis to determine the root cause,” Siemens says. “At the same time, we are working with our customer [to] replace the broken blade.”

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http://www.nawindpower.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.11349#.UWYrOHAyHdk

[madamesilverspurs]

1. Are they deploying

truckloads of paper towels to soak up all the spilled wind?

[Renew Deal]

4. lol

Exactly

[Vinnie From Indy]

5. lol!

Cheers!

[Archaic]

2. I work with idiots that pass around pictures of a turbine fire somewhere

They're saying "probably happens all the time!"

So I point out that it's a 1.5 MW turbine in a field of 100. So they're down 1%. When a 400MW coal turbine goes down, all 400 MW are down.

They don't want to hear about that part of the deal.

[niyad]

6. why are you trying to confuse them with facts??

they are probably related (certainly mentally) to that moran on fr that was posted earlier tonight, saying the hostage crisis in georgia was the result of "bloated unions" because "there are half the accidents and fires there were 30 years ago, and twice as many police and firemen"

[pscot]

3. Sort of like the news for wombats there , eh?

[kristopher]

8. Sorta. nt

ETA: I forgot to thank you for that video, it was the first time I've seen it. Great!

[progressoid]

7. By law they have to be a safe distance from any structures.

500 feet if I remember correctly.