Vineyard Wind Blades Still Lack Full-Scale Testing

Vineyard Wind Blades Still Lack Full-Scale Testing 
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The 107-meter, 351-foot blade made for Vineyard Wind by LM Wind Company, a holding company of General Electric, never received full-scale testing.  
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Full-scale testing should demonstrate the blade's ability to withstand a torsion test, static design load, and its fatigue durability over at least one year of practical use. 
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Product development testing and certification were likely rushed requirements because there were no sites worldwide to test 351-foot blades. 
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To build 150 blades at the LM Wind Company plant in Canada a single prototype hybrid blade was taken to the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center Wind Technology Center to be tested and certified. The test center was only 300 feet long requiring the prototype blade to be cut in two parts bypassing torsion testing. Engineers had to extrapolate data to certify the results. 
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The prototype blade or those made in Canada never underwent field tests. A one-year field test should have been carried out in an environment where the blades are used like the North Sea or off the coast of New England. The lack of a field test resulted in one blade accident at Nantucket and two at Dogger Bank. 
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Over six months three accidents and installation of 50 blades showed the blade test was improper. 
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The LM Wind Company plant in Canada recently had issues with finding up to ten percent of the blades to be defective. 
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The final stage of quality control should include at least a field test. Without a field test, it happens again.
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The outgoing White House administration and multiple federal agencies rushed blade safety, certification, and testing. The current administration target of 80 percent renewable energy generation by 2030.
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A prototype blade made in Canada should be field tested in the North Sea for one year before being used near Nantucket.

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Comment by Willem Post on November 13, 2024 at 11:02am

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.

U.S. Sen Angus King

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