Vineyard Wind -GE Vernova Blade Tests & Conclusions Within Weeks
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In the article "Blade cracks signal new stress problem, preventative investment needed on turbines with large LM blades" LM warned specially developed vibration detectors be placed on its blades to prevent blade breaks.
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Today a torsion test is the maximum twisting force an entire wind blade can withstand before failure and an in-service field trial in a rough ocean environment.
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In 2016 General Electric bought LM Wind Company.
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By 2019, LM Wind had developed a 351-foot hybrid blade with less carbon fiber for GE wind turbines.
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A prototype blade was sent to the Massachusetts Wind Testing facility for testing and certification. After the certification, 150 blades could be produced in Canada for the Vineyard Wind project.
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The 295-foot multi-million dollar MassCEC Wind Technology Testing Center was built to do torsion tests. The center could take a single blade as one complete unit and perform all the tests. However, the new GE blade didn't fit in the test site.
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General Electric, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and MassCEC collaborated to change the test procedure by cutting the 351-foot hybrid prototype blade in two parts and extrapolating the figures. In addition, the blade never underwent a field test in an ocean environment.
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The certification and testing process requiring in-person participation did not happen due to COVID-19. Zoom meetings were held to check the box. The blade was certified.
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150 blades were manufactured in Gaspee Canada at the LM Wind Company.
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On July 13, 2024, one of the blades broke at the Vineyard Wind project spewing 60 tons of microplastic, fiberglass, and balsa wood all over New England.
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July 25, 2024, only 12 days after the accident GE suspected insufficient bonding and problems with the quality assurance program at LM Wind Company. How did GE know so quickly while the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement was investigating today?
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The answer may be on October 25, 2024, a news story from Radio Gaspesie reported major problems at the LM plant leading to around ten percent of the blades being defective. It was the quality assurance program.
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The costs of the program remain unknown because another blade failure could happen again
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Note# Many, mainstream news sites favor the offshore wind agenda. They should be pushing safe nuclear.
In 1993 a major news network got caught placing explosive devices in a test truck to show from 1973 to 1987 the trucks had unsafe gas tanks.
Following the Vineyard Wind blade failure news media reported: "An ‘unusual and rare’ wind turbine failure"
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Wind Power Monthly reports "WORLDWIDE: Wind turbine rotor blades are failing at a rate of around 3,800 a year, 0.54% of the 700,000 or so blades that are in operation worldwide."
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Maine as Third World Country:
CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power
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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."
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