WRITTEN BY ARI HOFFMAN ON SEP 1, 2022. POSTED IN LATEST NEWS
Oregon Wind Farm Sees Blades, Bolts Fly Off As Failures Mount
A new report has revealed the unreliability of a major Oregon wind farm, discovered after a blade from a windmill detached and flew across the field.
According to The Oregonian, in January, a delivery driver found some broken, industrial-size bolts on the ground near one of Portland General Electric’s towering wind turbines but did not know who to tell and used it as a paperweight. [bold, links added]
On Feb 1 at 2:11 am, one of the turbine’s 11-story tall blades flew the full length of a football field and plowed a 4-feet deep furrow in a wheat field. The heavy-duty bolts that kept the blade attached to the tower scattered like shrapnel.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/oregon-wind-farm-sees-blades-bolts-fly-off-as-failures-mount/
