A 2 kilometer
buffer zone is essential to protect people
and their homes |
There
are dangers to your Health
from the continual daily operation of
the turbines and from mechanical failure
of these enormous industrial installations |
Turbine manufacturers advise construction
workers to live OVER 400 METRES from turbines
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| Turbine
Failure |
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Wind turbines are major industrial
installations |
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Wind turbines have major mechanical,
electrical and electronic components |
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All these components can fail |
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Wind turbines do catch fire - this
happened to one at Nissan, Sunderland |
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Turbines can break |
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The turbines are not supposed to
operate above a certain wind speed
- is this dependent on electronic
sensing equipment that can fail and
is monitored by a remote control centre? |
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The trend in turbine accident statistics
shows that the number of accidents
per year is increasing - the more
turbines, the more accidents |
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| Real
Experiences |
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Conisholme
in E Lincs in Jan 2009 - an example
of a catastrophic failure of a wind
turbine on a cold icy night. |
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Wind Turbine Disaaster in Denmark
- a video of a turbine collapsing |
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The
Caithness Campaign has collected
statistics from windfarm accidents |
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Higashidorimura
Japan turbine collapses |
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See images of turbine disasters from
Richard Dow's blog " An English Guy" |
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| Ice
Throw |
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Ice builds up on the blades of the
turbines and is then thrown off |
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Although the blades seem to be turning
slowly, the tips are going at a speed
in excess of 180mph. That will throw
ice a long way |
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Ice
Throw at Whittlesey Daily Telegraph
(Peterborough) December 2008 - 2ft
lumps of ice thrown off the blades |
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Wind Watch reports on
Whittlesey ice throw |
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Ice
Throw Video shows how ice builds
up on the blades |
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| Turbine
Projectiles |
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A projectile from a turbine is any
object that is thrown from the spinning
blades |
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Projectiles could be ice throw or
pieces of turbine or blades |
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Research shows that projectiles
could land over 800 m from the turbine |
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That would cover most of Appleton
Wiske |
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These projectiles could be pieces
of metal and could be LETHAL |
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| Vibration
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Many of our village homes are extremely
old (over 300 years) and were built
without foundations |
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Vibration through the ground will
be created
during the construction of the turbines |
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Transporting the enormous components
past
our homes will cause vibration |
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Operation of the turbines will cause
continual
daily vibration |
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Vibration is propogated through
the ground |
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It cannot be predicted because
the bedrock/ground
formation is unique in each site |
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Jane Davies from Deeping St Nicholas
in S Lincs has had the vibraion is
her home measured and confirmed. Her
home is over 900 metres away fro the
nearest turbine. Most of Appleton
Wiske would be less than that |
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Searsburg, Germany |
| Other
Dangers |
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It is difficult to find out about
wind turbine accidents |
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The data is collected by the BWEA
but is not available to the public |
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Police have blamed several road
traffic accidents on distraction by
wind turbines |
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The
Caithness Campaign has collected
statistics from windfarm accidents |
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| Operators
Response to Problems |
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What will happen if there is a problem
with a turbine? |
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It is unlikely that there will be
operator on site - especially at night
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During the NHWAG visit to the Walkway
windfarm, the engineer said he was
responsible for x windfarms |
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Where will the control centre be? |
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Many of the operators are foreign
ppower companies such as EDF |
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The control cenre may not be in
the UK |
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How quick will the response be? |
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The response at Whittlesey after
the ice throw was over 4 hours |
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It is very unlikely that there will
be a dedicated engineer on site |
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The engineer at the nearby Walkway
Windfarm looks after more than 10
windfarms |
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| Related
Information and Useful Lnks |
HIGASHIDORIMURA,
Japan
Japanese officials are investigating
the safety of foreign-made wind turbines
after a recent accident in Higashidorimura.
A 223-foot generator on the wind farm
in the Aomori Prefecture fell when
the concrete base cracked, The Daily
Yomiuri reported. The steel rods that
were meant to support it and secure
it to the base were left. Officials
said the reason for the crash was
still unknown but it was not likely
the fall was caused by strong winds.
It's designed to hold up in winds
up to 134 mph, which is a high-rise
building standard applied to wind
turbines. |
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In February
2008, a 10-year-old Vestas turbine
with a total height of less than 200
feet broke apart in a storm. Large
pieces of the blades flew as far as
500 meters (1,640 feet) -- more than
8 times its total height |
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