Wind Turbine Bursts into Flames at Ardrossan Windfarm in Severe Weather 1
Dec8
A wind turbine at the Ardrossan Windfarm in Ayrshire, Scotland bursts into flames due to high winds and severe weather.
The 30 megawatt windfarm has a total of fifteen Danish manufactured turbines which each stand 100m (328ft) high. Rather ironically today, one of the wind turbines, which are obviously made to harness the natural power of the wind, couldn’t cope and burst into flames.
Wind power isn’t necessarily the wonderful gift that Chris Huhne and the government would like us to believe. They are now proposing to build another 32,000 wind turbines in addition to the existing c.3,000 turbines. Are these going to be build near houses? The video below also highlights the dangers of wind turbines in high winds.
The real story behind this singular wind turbine failure is the following:
“While the turbine grabbed attention, a power line running into Hunterston power station, also on Scotland’s west coast, was brought down by the gale, causing the 460-megawatt B-8 nuclear reactor to cease generating for 54 hours.
Infinis, which owns the windfarm, and EDF Energy, which owns the power station, both refused to disclose how much energy they were unable to generate.
But Dr Ian Lange, director of the MSc in energy management at Stirling University, … estimates that Hunterston lost around 17,388 MWh compared with the turbine’s 1,210MWh even though it has now been out of action for many weeks.”
http://tvmeioambiente.com.br/noticias/wind-power-what-really-happened-when-the-ayrshire-turbine-caught-fire/
Rare wind turbine fires are dramatic visually, but immaterial in context of 165,000 working, productive wind turbines world wide.
While all generating capacity from the nuclear plant was offline, the other 11 wind turbines in the wind farm kept generating clean, safe electricity.