Author: Sylvia ElseSylvia Else Date: Sep 5, 2008 22:09
David Lesher wrote:
> Sylvia Else writes:
>
>>> Just over a year later, in February, a 200ft Vestas wind
>>> turbine near the Danish city of Ã…rhus disintegrated spectacularly in
>>> high winds when a blade came loose and smashed into the central tower,
>>> causing the whole structure to collapse. The incident was captured on
>>> video camera and footage has been viewed thousands of times on YouTube.
>
>
>> Clearly failed its blade containment tests.
>
> As I recall, they knew the brakes/overspeed limiter had
> failed, and were just waiting until......
That would explain the camera being in place to capture the event.
Shame they didn't use video equipment of a higher quality, or less
compression when posting.
Sylvia.
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