Vineyard Wind Blades Lack 1-Year Field & Torsion Tests + History of Blade Cracks 1997
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"The wind industry's major supplier of rotor blades is advising operators of large turbines equipped with its 19 metre blade to ensure their machines are installed with specially developed vibration detectors. The warning, from LM Glasfiber of Denmark, follows several instances of stress cracks appearing on blades which have been subjected to "violent edgewise oscillation." Should such vibrations occur, a detector would trip a wind turbine's safety system, bringing it to a standstill."
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"Blade damage has been recorded on 18 blades, or 0.5%, of the 3700 LM 19 m blades installed on wind turbines around the world with rated capacities of 600 kW and over. LM supplies blades to all Danish manufacturers of utility scale wind turbines, apart from Vestas, and to manufacturers abroad, including companies in Germany, Spain and India."
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"In nearly all cases, the damage resulting from edgewise oscillation has amounted to serious longitudinal cracks on the trailing edge of the blade a couple of metres from the root. Only once have the oscillations been so severe as to cause more damage. A blade oscillated so violently on a turbine in Denmark that it hit the tower, causing a piece of the blade to break away and fall to the ground. From the Danish wind turbine test centre at Risø, Carsten Skamris reports that all turbines in Denmark equipped with 19 m blades are currently programmed to stop in winds of 20 m/s, instead of the normal 25 m/s, until a technical solution to the problem has been found."
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Comment by Willem Post on November 18, 2024 at 6:26pm
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Give them hell Frank
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Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on November 18, 2024 at 12:23pm
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KASH IS KING: Steve Bannon on War Room: President-Elect Trump Names Kash Patel as FBI Directorby Jim Hᴏft Nov. 18, 2024 10:52 amPresident-elect Donald Trump has reportedly selected Kash Patel as his pick for FBI Director.
The announcement came during an episode of Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast, where Bannon lauded Patel as the ideal choice to lead the bureau during what promises to be a transformative administration.
This report currently originates solely from Steve Bannon. There is no official corroboration of this report, and there is still no official statement from the Trump campaign.
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Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT
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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law
Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future
"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."
https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/
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