The large house in Lower West Pubnico is now empty and abandoned, d’Entremont says, because inaudible sound from the 17-turbine wind farm made his family sick. “It’s like a surround sound — you can’t avoid it, you can’t ignore it. It just comes right into your head.” D’Entremont blames the turbines for sending low-frequency [...]
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Fire Damages Wind Turbine Near Garner Iowa
Fire Damages Wind Turbine Near Garner
Officials are looking for what caused a fire that damaged a wind turbine near Garner in northern Iowa.The fire at the Hancock County Wind Farm broke out Wednesday morning in a compartment holding the gear box and electrical components more than 200 feet above the ground. The fire then worked [...]
Fire damages wind turbine near Garner
Fire damages wind turbine near Garner
Fire caused major damage to a wind turbine Wednesday morning at the Hancock County Wind Farm southwest of Garner.
The large compartment holding the gear box and electric components more than 200 feet above the ground burned and two of the three 77-foot blades broke off, falling to the ground.
Wind turbine collapse under investigation
On February 22 a 600 kW Nordtank wind turbine at Halling in eastern Jutland experienced a so called runwaway event causing its blades to spin out of control. Minutes later the blades collided with the tower and caused the turbine to collapse. In an unrelated event at Vig in Odsherred a Vestas V47 600kW wind [...]
Wiring anomaly linked to turbine collapse
Wiring anomaly linked to turbine collapse
Noble Environmental Power elaborated further on what is believed to have caused a wind turbine to collapse in its Altona Wind Park.
In a news release, the company said the GE wind turbines are equipped with a pitch-control system that is supposed to stop the turbine’s operation when there is a [...]
