Vineyard Wind Blades Compared To The Last Yugo On The Lot

Vineyard Wind Blades The Last Yugo On The Lot 
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The Yugo a compact car made in Yugoslavia was the ultimate worst automotive failure. It was cheap, ugly, poorly engineered, and always broke down.  Yugo was the “fastest-selling first-year European import in history. The car was a lemon.
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In 2020, LM Wind Company, a holding company for General Electric, built a 351-foot hybrid blade that was less expensive and quicker to build than the competition. 
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The first test blade went through a test site in Boston at the 300-foot Massachusetts Clean Energy Center. The blade had to be cut to fit in the test site, where engineers extrapolated data and certified it for the construction of 150 blades in Canada. 
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LM Wind Company built 150 blades for the Vineyard Wind project off Nantucket, Massachusetts. On July 13, 2024, a blade broke off dumping 60 tons of microplastics in the ocean.  
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An investigation was conducted of the LM Wind Company in Canada according to news media reporting up to ten percent of the blades are defective. These wind turbine blades fall in the category of the compact car the Yugo. 
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News media reports of an investigation, led by GE Vernova's lawyers, employees were asked by senior company executives to falsify quality control data. GE has not commented on the report. see (Note 1)
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The citizens of the United States would not buy a car with a ten percent chance of a crash. 
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The continued use of these blades gives the public the appearance that ocean wind is a bunco scheme of enormous consequence. The people who value intellectual honesty should not quietly be fleeced by such mendacity, even from their government officials.  
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The US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement is conducting a blade investigation. 
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(Note 1) 
The Original Blade Defect Story Credit:  By Toby Germain - October 24, 2024 - radiogaspesie.ca
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Comment by Willem Post on November 13, 2024 at 11:00am

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 12, 2024 at 8:43am

Frank,

The blades should be tested on a mast in the North Sea for about a year to cover all operations and weather conditions 

 

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