Vineyard Wind Blade News: Very Very Bad

Nantucket Massachusetts November 9, 2024 
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In 2016 General Electric bought LM Wind Company. LM Wind developed a prototype 107-meter blade (351 feet) in Cherbourg France for its new up to 14 megawatt ocean wind turbine. The blade is a hybrid made with far less carbon fiber which is less expensive and faster to manufacture. (made to last the warranty period) 
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The wind industry is in a rush to test and certify turbines for ocean service. 
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The rush to build larger ocean wind turbines and blades has been motivated by money and the political agenda. Federal tax credits have always been an incentive for onshore wind projects. Today, the Inflation Reduction Act plus incentives pay up to 40 percent of the cost of building a new ocean wind farm. The bigger the turbine the more you the taxpayer pays. 
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In 2020 LM Wind Company had to get one prototype 107M ( 351 foot ) new experimental hybrid blade certified and tested to justify the manufacture of 150 blades at its plant in Canada for the Vineyard Wind project off Nantucket. 
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The new blade was taken to the 90-meter (300-foot) Massachusetts Clean Energy Center Wind Technology Test Center Boston. The test blade had to be cut in two parts as it did not fit in the center. Torsion tests that had been done on previous blades tested on the site were bypassed. ( Note 1 link) 
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A torsion test would have shown if the blade could bend enough for the blade tip to hit the monopole or snap off near the rotor. In addition due to the rush to get federal renewable energy tax credits for up to 40 percent of the project, no field test of the turbine blades was conducted. 
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The US Department of Energy granted the MassCEC Wind Testing Site $1.85 million to use the new test method bypassing the torsion test and extrapolating data to certify and test the blade. The blade was certified for the production of 150 blades in Canada.
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On July 13, 2024, after the installation of a few ocean wind turbines, a blade broke off dumping 60 tons of microplastics, fiberglass, and balsa wood all over New England. Two other blades failed at the Dogger Bank project within 6 months. The yearly failure rate of an LM 107m blade is around 6 percent. 
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In October 2024 a meeting was held at the LM Wind Company plant in Gaspee Quebec. (Note 2 link) 
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Disclosure to various news sources shows a possible scheme to falsify test data to rush the production of wind turbine blades with up to ten percent of the blades being found faulty. 
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Layoffs and suspensions took place at the LM plant. Employees may have been encouraged to bypass and falsify testing data.  
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The defective Canadian blades are being sent from New Bedford to the LM Wind blade plant in Cherbourg, France to be repaired but due to port delays, the shipments are taking over a month or more. A cargo ship ROLLDOCK SUN left New Bedford on October 5, 2024, with a shipment of blades delayed in the French port and now returned still waiting to enter New Bedford Harbor today. 
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The federal government's offshore wind agenda to reach 2025 carbon reduction goals has led to many federal agencies taking shortcuts to reach carbon goals. 
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These shortcuts have led to the death of all types of marine life, the loss of fishing grounds, and the pollution of the ocean environment.  
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The news media has acted as cheerleaders for ocean wind projects. The common statement is that the Vineyard Wind project will power 400.000 homes. The media leaves out that the turbines would need a constant speed of 54 miles per hour 24 hours a day. The omission of parasitic power use, maintenance, breakdowns, storms, and summer lulls.  
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Safe nuclear power: Safe microreactors are 100 times smaller than old reactors. One reactor on a ten-acre site would take the place of the Vineyard Wind project and all the electric infrastructure.  

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Comment by Willem Post on November 13, 2024 at 11:07am

Ban the Offshore Wind Turbine FIASCO NOW
Eliminate all subsidies of any kind to all industries, etc., NOW
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Regarding disintegrating rotor blades in Cape Cod, the field test of fully instrumented, 351-ft long, rotor blades on a mast, for AT LEAST one year, in a windy area of the North Sea, is the most important part, which GE executives “omitted”.
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These rotor blades are about three times as long as airplane wings of a Boeing-747.
Nobody in their sane mind would ever bypass field testing, including torsion testing.
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What were these GE top executive folks thinking? 
How in hell did they get in these top positions?
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Falsifying test records to endanger people, and the environment, and ocean fauna, and fisheries, and tourism? All these are felon offenses.
All involved should be fired and prosecuted for malfeasance, and blacklisted, and never again be allowed to be employed in any industry.
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Bureau of Safety and Environment Enforcement, BSEE, (what a name for a useless bureau) WANTS TO ESTABLISH FACTS ON THE GROUND (by building wind turbines without rotors) SO PROJECTS WILL BE HARDER TO CANCEL BY SANE PEOPLE IN EARLY 2025
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Utilities paying 15 c/kWh, wholesale (after 50% subsidies), is gross economic insanity, plus all of us: 

– paying for grid reinforcement and extension, plus:
– paying for traditional plants counteracting variable output, on a less than minute by minute basis, 24/7/365, plus
– paying for traditional plants providing electricity during low wind, low solar conditions, plus
– paying for expensive hazardous waste landfill
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The insanity and environmental damage it all is off the charts.
No wonder Europe’s near-zero, real-growth economy is in such big do do
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Europe wants to foist high electricity prices into the US (using the fig-leaf canard of global-warming/climate-change), so the US will be in big do do as well, TO MAINTAIN ITS EXTREMELY ADVANTAGEOUS TRADE BALANCE WITH THE US; money talks.
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Why in hell is a GE, a US company, building several hundred EXPERIMENTAL rotor blades in Quebec, Canada, and have them transported, from Cape Cod to France, on specialized European ships, to a French testing facility?
How low and idiotic can a US company go by screwing US workers out of jobs?
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Socialist, left wing, incompetent, Democrat, cabal, using feeble BIDEN/joyful HARRIS as their puppets for 4 years, did their Wind thing, and their Open Borders thing, that ended up screwing US viability, and US people, and play into the hands of Europe, the reason the European elites like Biden/Harris so much.
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What was the traitorous, Socialist, left wing, incompetent, Democrat cabal thinking?
Now you see why the American people finally had to take revenge by voting the cabal idiots out
Now you see why European elites hate Trump, because he puts AMERICA FIRST, UNLIKE TWO-FACED RINOS, LIKE SENATOR COLLINS, etc.

Comment by Willem Post on November 11, 2024 at 8:05am

Frank,

These fully instrumented blades have be tested for at least one year on a mast in the North Sea.

You had a nice paragraph

Please put it back it

We have to hammer away at, as otherwise they will not do it, and put out another smoke screen Press Release to maintain public ignorance 

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