The braking mechanism on a large wind turbine failed in high winds (the second such occurrence in Denmark last week), leading to the spectacular failure in this video clip. There has been a rash of reported breakdowns in the last two months of turbines manufactured by Vestas, which has a 28% market share and 33,500 units deployed worldwide, according to its website.
In a story in The Copenhagen Post, the manufacturer of the 10-year-old windmill cites poor maintenance, but vows to investigate all problems.
Comments
Wind turbine self-destruction in slow-mo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvvRHhsQhi8&NR=...
Posted 5/1/08 1:47 PM by Mark Piepkorn
That's crazy. I suppose that it's good that we don't put turbines in cities or populated areas. Given that those things are millions of dollars each you'd think that they'd put some sort of speed limiter on them.
Posted 11/1/08 9:23 PM by Austin Realtor
