https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/texas-wind-turbine-fire
how exactly does the blade catch fire?
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on July 23, 2022, 09:33:51 AM
how exactly does the blade catch fire?
I think lightning can set just about anything on fire!
Especially if it contains 800 gallons of oil. :o
^Wait so these wind turbines operate on oil power?
Apparently they need oil to produce wind. Unless they were just storing some up there.
Quote from: Sir Slash on July 25, 2022, 11:03:49 AM
Apparently they need oil to produce wind. Unless they were just storing some up there.
Wind turbines have complicated gearboxes requiring high performance oil to keep lubricated.
Of course they do, lots of it. Eight hundred gallons in the turbine and 1300 gallons of mineral oil in the ground-level transformer according to the article. That's 2100 gallons of oil per turbine by my math. And there's 139 turbines in the Wind Field. :coolsmiley:
guess what gets recycled and, usually, not burned.
That's good to hear. Did they ever get the whole problem with killing eagles and hawks solved?
I remember a picture of a nuke bomb test that had a ring around the mushroom. That was big.
That spiral screw from the windmill is really cool. I would think that lightning would hit the motor rather than the extremely of the blade.
The blade extremity is moving a lot more, creating ionization in the fiberglass laminate. Something similar can happen while chopping fiberglass originally into the laminate: if we didn't have a grounding wire attached, the operators (and maybe nearby people) would be getting strong electrical shocks pretty regularly, including jumping off the glass as sparks of (what amounts to) lightning.
I'm guessing there must have been a problem in any grounding set up to prevent that here.