Hamlin Preservation Group - "Oops."

Fenner Blade Break, 2007 - Long Shot

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:30:17 -0500

Fenner Blade Break, 2007

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:29:27 -0500

Ice Throw, Germany, Undated

Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:23:42 -0400

Don't know how someone got a photo of ice throw in action, but they did.

Downed Turbine, Germany 2002

Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:19:44 -0400

(Translated from German)

February 19, 2002

WKA accident in Javenloch at the ostfriesischen coast.

Parts of the rotors flew up to 235 meters far, measured by pacing down, according to an observer from Jever.

Because no roads were in the proximity, nobody was injured.

Turbines Set Fields on Fire, California

Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:10:34 -0400

(Apologies for the poor-quality image; scanned from the Herald, June 23, 1994)

The Alameda County Zoning Administrator approved strict new measures Wednesday to prevent grass fires sparked by Altamont Pass windmills, just as firefighters battled a searing windmill blaze off Vasco Road.

County officials in Hayward could not have known how timely their decision was.

An afternoon grass fire sparked by a turbine charred 10 acres in southeastern Contra Costa County, melting the windmill's machinery. At one point, the turbine itself burst into flames and had to be doused by several helicopter passes.

German Fire, 2004

Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:05:47 -0400

(Translation of Donnerstag newspaper)

June 9, 2004

The tempest which swept over Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein yesterday morning caused damage to the value of serveral million (euros). The lightning strikes caused rail delays of approxinately 1 hour between Keil and Hamburg.

Nothing could save the wind turbine in the Wulfhagen wind park. Even with a fire appliance the firefighters could not reach the fire which was at a height of 65 metres (213 feet).

Wind farm fears as blade snaps

Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:56:14 -0400

(reprinted from the Times, April 2005)

A TURBINE at a Scottish wind farm has broken down after one of its blades snapped off.

The 10-tonne turbine, one of 31 at the £80 million Crystal Rig wind farm near Dunbar, East Lothian, was destroyed last week when a mechanism to stop it spinning too fast failed. Onlookers reported strong winds and said one of the turbine blades flew off and hurtled into the countryside.

Aragon Province, Spain

Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:46:00 -0400

This turbine in Aragon province, Spain, is leaking oil profusely. Repeated attempts to get the problem fixed have resulted only in promises.

Nissan Factory Fire

Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:01:12 -0400

Another photo of the Nissan Factory Turbines on fire. Dec 2005.

Birds in Navarre, Spain

Fri, 07 Jul 2006 13:54:58 -0400

The wind developers will tell you that bird kill is nonexistant, or at least irrelevant.

But this photograph taken at Navarre, Spain, shows birds of prey that have been slaughtered by the spinning blades of wind turbines. Workers are routinely paid to pick up and dispose of the birds.

Workers at Tug Hill in New York are also paid to pick up birds on a weekly basis.

Erosion gullies caused by wind development

Wed, 05 Jul 2006 17:18:53 -0400

This gully is visible from Hwy. 58 in southern California and is due to runoff from the Difko site and the former Cannon site on Cameron Ridge.

Note that the alluvial fan is gradually burying the Joshua Trees at the base of the slope.

"Though the Tehachapi area is susceptible to so-called cloudbursts typical of the world's desert regions, and critics had warned developers during the mid 1980s that they were cutting roads in erodible soils too close to the edge of steep escarpments, the industry appeared dumbfounded when it awoke to the damage soon afterwards.

Germany, 2002 Unexplained Vestas Fire

Sun, 02 Jul 2006 22:51:18 -0400

(Translated from German)

4.08.2002 - Cat mountain with Meissen/Saxonia

kind of accident: Fire

type: VESTAS V 80 - achievement 2.0 megawatts (according to another instruction a VESTAS V 66 with 1,75 MW)

age: Still brand-new and not yet started operation

operator: GHF wind park Heynitz Rekentin GmbH & CO. Kg in empty/East Frisia

source of information: Sp-on-line of 5.8.2002 and local information detail (original report sp):

UK, 2005, Nissan Factory Turbine Fire

Sun, 02 Jul 2006 22:37:45 -0400

(reprint from local newspaper "Sunderland Echo")

GLOWING IN THE WIND: The fibreglass blades burning.

A HUGE wind turbine went up in smoke in a massive blaze seen for miles across Wearside.

The 200ft structure at the Nissan factory, part of a £2.3million wind farm built in August, burst into flames just after 12.30pm yesterday.

The fire was so fierce all three 75-ft long fibreglass blades eventually dropped off and thick black smoke could be seen for miles around.

Ice Throw Endangers Motorists

Sat, 17 Dec 2005 21:05:51 -0500

(Translated from German)

For Friday the air temperature is continuously under 3 °C and the humidity also over 90% measured. Thus definitely all conditions for ice throw were present.

I found the ice breaking into chunks up to 80 m distance from the rotor masts.

One of the photos shows fragments lying close within the proximity to a public road, smaller ice fragments lay on the road "Lammersstiege".