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Burning Wind Turbine Makes Smoke Vortex

submitted by newtboy

8 years 3 months 2 weeks ago

Due to a technical problem, this wind turbine began spinning so fast that it caught on fire. The camera operator infuriatingly misses the part where the propellor goes flying off, but there's still some excellent smoke vortex action.

5 Comments

AeroMechanical says...

Ouch, looks like wind turbines are only good for your carbon footprint when they're not on fire.

BSR

If he would have kept his mouth shut, focused on the subject, kept the camera still, it could have been a awesome video. So frustrating to watch. Then when the thing finally fell apart, HE DIDN'T GET ANY OF IT! Gaaaaah!

skinnydaddy1 says...

Ummm So why are there TWO of them burning? Did they both fail?

Same fail point, I bet; overspeed condition with no ability to automatically stop the blades and turn them into the wind so that they don't turn too quickly and burn up (no auto feather, or auto feather parameters exceeded).

Could have been either a software failure or a hardware failure---or perhaps an unholy combination of both.

skinnydaddy1said:

Ummm So why are there TWO of them burning? Did they both fail?

brilliant camera work

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