Reply #19: The Dangers of Wind Power [View All]

[invader zim]

Check out some of these tower collapses...

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,500902,00.html


http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,949526,00.jpg

In December of last year, fragments of a broken rotor blade landed on a road shortly before rush hour traffic near the city of Trier.

Two wind turbines caught fire near Osnabrück and in the Havelland region in January. The firefighters could only watch: Their ladders were not tall enough to reach the burning casings.

The same month, a 70-meter (230-foot) tall wind turbine folded in half in Schleswig-Holstein -- right next to a highway.

The rotor blades of a wind turbine in Brandenburg ripped off at a height of 100 meters (328 feet). Fragments of the rotors stuck into a grain field near a road.