What hit the Wind Turbine then?
by Stuart
at 2009-01-08 14:25:48
(Forum::Public::Wind)
What are your thoughts?
What hit the Wind Turbine then?
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Stuart - 2009-01-08 14:25:48 |
| Re: What hit the Wind Turbine then? | Simon - 2009-01-08 14:57:46 |
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Either ice dropped from an aircraft (suggested on the Today programme), or a freak tornado/extreme turbulence (similar to the occasional 'monster' waves/eddies experienced at sea).
Or it's the local yoof. |
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| Re: What hit the Wind Turbine then? | Stuart - 2009-01-08 15:03:29 |
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Some how I dont see either of those as likely. The blades are incredible strong, and I cant see the ice from a plane being able to sheer one off and bend the next one. As to a tornado, why would it affect only one turbine in the park.
I would guess it was an engineering fault that led to a blade coming loose and then hitting the other one.
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| Re: What hit the Wind Turbine then? | Simon - 2009-01-08 16:09:25 |
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Tornados can be tiny and touch down momentarily, it's the differential stresses involved that are enormous in the vortex. Wingtip vortices used to wreak havoc when I lived near Heathrow on the final approach path.
Be interesting to know what the weather conditions were like at the time - cold yes, but what windspeed and pressure? |
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| Re: What hit the Wind Turbine then? | Stuart - 2009-01-08 16:13:35 |
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Yes was the turbine in motion? If it was stationary then the mystery would deepen. -- Stuart |
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| Re: What hit the Wind Turbine then? | Stuart - 2009-01-10 08:28:56 |
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4211158/UFO-turbine-debris-sent-to-German-forensic-scientists.html -- Stuart |
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| Re: What hit the Wind Turbine then? | BigSkeff - 2009-01-11 06:58:27 |
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Hi Stuart,
These turbines are just across the river from us, so if I knew which day it happened on I would be able to look at our records for flying cows and other livestock !
There have been some little green men around over the Christmas period, but these were mainly the local youths after copious quantities of alcopops.
Strange things happen in Lincolnshire. --- Planet 'B' presumed nonexistent. |
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| Re: What hit the Wind Turbine then? | Stuart - 2009-01-12 15:46:22 |
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So we are looking for drunken teenagers with a unfortunate cow and a trebuchet....
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| Re: What hit the Wind Turbine then? | muymalestado - 2009-01-12 16:41:07 |
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by Stuart at 2009-01-12 15:46:22 (Forum::Public::Wind)
So we are looking for drunken teenagers with a unfortunate cow and a trebuchet....
-- Something like this . And if you look around this site you'll be amused . . . though its off-topic. -- muymalestado |
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| Re: What hit the Wind Turbine then? | Peter - 2009-02-17 13:08:15 |
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More info on this 'mystery' here - from Telegraph article.
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