4 ms·
Giant Wind Turbines Keep Mysteriously Falling Over. This Shouldn't Be Happening
- ggm 4y agoWould it kill a popular mechanics magazine to maybe treat us like adults, and say how many in production, deployed, failure rate, rate of change, how it correlated to scale...
- defrost 4y agoAlmost every factoid in that short Pop. Mech article links to the same longer piece in Bloomberg: Wind Turbines Taller Than the Statue of Liberty Are Falling Over https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-23/wind-turbine-collapses-punctuate-green-power-growing-pains https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-23/wind-turb... https://archive.li/zJ72G https://archive.li/zJ72G I'm still parsing that for an actual tech report - Bloomberg uses multiple references so they may have pulled it all together themselves. It seems its mainly just a few very big wind turbines so I guess with a few tweaks and upper limits . . . it'll all blow over.
- ggm 4y agogolf clap