Windmill/Wind Turbine Explosion
Kourinsu asked:
The braking mechanism that limits the speed of the wind turbine broke during a storm in Denmark. This was the outcome. 02/22-2008.
http://jp.dk/uknews/article1277616.ece
Bonus info:
-The tower of the mill was 60m high
-Wind speed was probably around 30 m/s
-You can see a truck at the base of the mill, but nobody was hurt. The mill had been evacuated 400m in each direction.
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Tags: High Wind, Speed Of The Wind
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January 29th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
Von wegen harmlose alternative Energiequellen
February 1st, 2009 at 4:30 pm
if you read the more info discription it tells you that the brakes that regulate the speed of the blades had failed so the blades just got faster and faster until boom
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:01 am
Why did it “explode” like that and why did the peaces fall to the ground almost vertical, although there was a real badass storm going on?
February 5th, 2009 at 9:55 am
wats a piece of string got ta do wit nytin?? retard?
February 8th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
boah is das krank ey :-O
February 10th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
how long is a peice of string
February 13th, 2009 at 9:17 am
does anyone know roughly how many Gs the blade tips would be producing?
February 15th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
so basically you mean we should use biomass instead of wind technology? why not just say that?
February 17th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
When i saw it Explode I was like Oh **** *** ho are these things gonna save our Energy Crisis???
February 20th, 2009 at 5:57 am
i guess wind isn’t a problem.
February 21st, 2009 at 6:04 am
explosion? where?
February 21st, 2009 at 9:28 am
1-2 mio $ each in that size (guessing)- and that’s even a relative small one !
February 23rd, 2009 at 7:10 am
No, it’s not !
It was in the news here.
February 24th, 2009 at 7:36 pm
lol you silly billy
February 27th, 2009 at 8:46 am
Good thing it was insured.
February 28th, 2009 at 3:52 am
fake you idiots
February 28th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
fucking wicked
March 1st, 2009 at 1:33 pm
I seen this one on tv. They said the brakes on it were gone so it had no control. thus it became unsteady, hit its self tor a blade off and set the rest in play.
March 3rd, 2009 at 2:14 pm
yeah… and how did that happen
March 4th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
i’m pretty sure wind turbines have an auto shutoff when the wind speeds are too high. The shut off on this one obviously wasn’t working properly.
March 7th, 2009 at 6:08 am
It decreases efficiency and dramatically increases the cost per kWh generated. If you make a turbine with a diameter of 1 m instead of 100 m, the power decreases 10 000 times. Smaller efficiency of the little generator would reduce it even more. It’s very uneconomical and looks terrible.
March 8th, 2009 at 12:22 am
A fine example of why we need to make smaller units more focused to ‘individual’ usage.
March 11th, 2009 at 2:19 am
dang… how much do those things cost???