Did icing damage the Screggagh rotor head?


Maybe we should no be building any wind turbines that are much better ways to generate power.

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Roger asked about wind conditions, “I’d like to see the output from the site anenometer so we knew what windspeeds were up there when it went down.” … can’t do that but I can dig…

Bing aerial images of wind farm

A question arises on whether the rotor assembly was damaged during icing conditions, later failing under relatively simple conditions. Water ingress into composite blades is also possible.

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SNOW, dated 11th December 2014 at a Met Office site not far away. The Met Office communications failed, quite common with Met Office sites. The wind at the 300 metre ground altitude Screggagh wind farm will have been faster, more so at hub height. Other met sites had snow and rain, wet conditions with a wind.

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80m wind turbine in Co. Tyrone: another catastrophic failure


Wind Turbines are a really stupid way to generate power, so no loss.

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This one has folded like a bent straw. Reports from Demotix and The Ulster Herald80m-turbine-fail1 Part of one of the blades is embedded javelin style in the ground half a mile away. Pic below the break.

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Three Mosques Burnt This Week in Sweden


I vote for d. and more…

Bonkers: Fears over growing healthy ‘hatred’ of Islam in Germany


Merkel is a fool the German People know the problem an its way too many Muslim’s

Saudi religious leader OKs rape of children


ISIS PREPARES TO ATTACK ISRAEL IN NORTH AND SOUTH PINCER MOVEMENT


Swedes Tire Of Government’s “Open Door Policy” On Muslim Immigration … Mosques Are Burning


If they don’t do something soon there will not be any Swed’s in Sweden

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In Sweden, The Land Of The Open Door, Anti-Muslim Sentiment Finds A Foothold

” As Khalif Samantar knelt for afternoon prayers at the Eskilstuna Islamic Dawa Center on Christmas Day, he sensed a growing heat and a low, rushing sound coming from a nearby hallway. He focused his mind on the ritual, only to realize seconds later that someone was shouting, “The mosque is on fire!”

  Mr. Samantar sprang through an open window and rushed through the snow in his stocking feet for help. Though about 70 people were inside the mosque at the time, no one was injured.

  The fire, which gutted the Dawa center, was the worst of three suspected arson attacks on mosques in Sweden over the last 10 days. In the same period, two freighters bearing hundreds of asylum seekers were abandoned by their crews off the coast of Italy, adding to a surge of more than…

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Black Attackers Signed Their Names on White Girl’s Forehead


This is where the REAL Hate is!

SIX crewless cargo vessels full of Muslims have arrived onto Italian coast in the last month


NEW BLACK PANTHERS TO “BUILD UP ARMY” TO KILL COPS IN 2015!