[Closed] Power Station Blows Up in Scotlands High Winds with Devastating Consequences

quick, lets bury it in the ground to "make it safe"

There was one in Japan not too long ago Tinas 🙂

It only blew up because it was stubbornly facing completely the opposite way to all the others.

'Tis cool TINAS
Fukushima is still in trouble 🙂 Well honestly. Dumping another load of radioactivity into the sea - the biggest spill into the sea ever - more than sellafeild. And we are still finding out bits of info that show it to be more serious than they admitted.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/05/fukushima-leak-radioactive-water

That just makes them cooler in my view.

Without actualy gettign drawn into an argument (theres alreadya thread for that).

Nuclear power should be built in safe places (i.e. not on a fault right on the coast with limited flood defences)

Wind turbines should be built in windy places.

not too windy!

I have to say having them blow up in high winds is fairly stupid.

That youtube clip is rather spectacular

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Wind turbines should be built in windy places.

I like whatever it is has exploded out of the turbine but the wind was just too strong and blew it back

I went on a safety course no long ago and the likely hood of being hit by a metiorite come up. The statistic was something allong the lines of you're more likley to be hit by a metiorite (the size of a pea by the tiem it gets to your head) than a wind turbine blade, but more likley to be fataly hit by a blade.

I.e.

odds of being hit by metiorite (relatively high) x consequences of being hit (relatively low) = X

odds of being hit by bladee (relatively low) x consequences of being hit (relatively high) = Y

Where Y was greater than X.

It was if the turbine said **** this and committed suicide 🙂

Obviously a 29er turbine.

Wonder it the firemne have a long enough ladder to put it out, or just let it burn, pity they cant let the same thing happen to nuclear power plants.

Oh it must have been the wrong sort of Wind

That's what happened to the much smaller turbine at my friend's cottage in Pembrokeshire. He knew something was wrong when he noticed the long strands of melted lacquer from the alternator windings spreading out in the wind. Eventually a blade flew off, sheared a guy wire and he watched as the turbine toppled over and the boss punched a hole straight through the roof of his Passat. He didn't dare go outside so he just had to watch it through the window.

Nuclear power should be built in safe places (i.e. not on a fault right on the coast with limited flood defences)

I have a sneaking suspicion that most Nuclear power stations are coastal due to the water requirements.

Then consider the minor risks posed by landslips for instance the risk of one of the Canaries collapsing and in doing so models suggest destruction of the US eastern seaboard. Unlikely but how do you prepare for that?

or, errrr

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Vestas turbine have a habit of bursting into flames or failing and leaking gearbox fluid into the ocean.

Turbines are designed to operate from very little wind, to normal/reasonably strong wind conditions... Like we get most of the time, in very strong wind the rotors are supposed to lock, and the blades are pitched into the wind.

If the turbine fails to shutdown and lock automatically or isnt remotely locked in time the turbine will overspeed, fluids will over heat and the thing will burst into flames.

Get Rolls Royce to design a scale down version of Trent 1000 ... 🙄 If not mistaken the proper Trent engines can spin 5 times the speed of sound apparently.

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we already do.