When they go wrong

Wind turbines
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dlw
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When they go wrong

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Was driving from Rennes to somewhere 😂 and spotted the below, looks like it was very recent as it looked like engineers were on site and there was a clean up crew in the farmers field picking up leftovers.

Not the greatest of pictures but you can see burnt top blade.

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Marcus
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Re: When they go wrong

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A wind turbine (one of three 1.3MW) very near me caught fire back in January:-

https://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/news/99 ... ley-663120

But it was quite an old one. This article says a 25yr lease was arranged in 1995 and it started producing in 2002 - which seems like quite a long gap to me.

https://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news ... laen-bowi/
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