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Virginia’s risk of offshore wind turbine blade failure is serious
« on: August 01, 2024, 06:45:19 am »

Virginia’s risk of offshore wind turbine blade failure is serious
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David Wojick
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July 29th, 2024
 
On July 26, CFACT’s President Craig Rucker sent Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin a letter warning him about the serious risk of blade failure in the giant offshore wind facility being built off Virginia. The warning builds on the recent blade failure off of Nantucket, which has littered the beaches with fiberglass fragments. Virginia is also at risk.

In this article, I present some technical background on that risk. The facility will be one of the world’s biggest, with 176 enormous turbines. It is just getting started with pile driving, so no turbine blades have been installed to date. This is an opportune time to undertake caution.

The Nantucket turbines are made by GE, and they are the world’s largest in operation today at 13 MW, each driven by three huge 107-meter-long blades. That is 351 feet for those of us who do not speak metric. The Virginia turbines will be even bigger at 14 MW with 108 meters (154+ feet) long. They are made by Siemens Gamesa, or SG for short.

https://www.cfact.org/2024/07/29/virginias-risk-of-offshore-wind-turbine-blade-failure-is-serious/#
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Re: Virginia’s risk of offshore wind turbine blade failure is serious
« Reply #1 on: August 02, 2024, 03:03:33 am »
Just wait until these start shedding blades in hurricanes, and imagine the mess that will extend from Norfolk to Cape Charles and further north, depending on wind and tides. The potential exists for disruption of merchant and military shipping, not to mention fisheries, pleasure craft, and wetland environments.

But .....GREEN! (So is snot, but I don't see anyone proposing lots of that)
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