Unfortunate, but such accidents are fortunately very rare, and loss of life from falling wind turbines is even rarer.
No power generation technology is utterly safe, but wind power has the merit that failures have only very local results. I would prefer to live near a wind turbine rather than a nuclear power station.
The manufacturers of the failed turbine will be clenching there cheeks over the next couple of days when the proper storm arrives with 80 mph wind speeds. If one can fail there maybe more. Trust a warning has been given to local dog walkers.
I'd rather live next to a neuclear power station than a wind turbine
Not what happened here, which looks like failure of the fibre glass, but in the early days there were problems with anchor bolts failing due to cyclic stress, by being installed with a nut below and above for each stud in the anchor ring.- the section between the nuts always in tension, not an issue, but the section below the lower nut oscillating between tension and compression rather than a uniform load share, failing after a few years. It is fair to say that the designers had quite a lot to learn at the outset, and are still learning as designs get ever bigger and push materials design into areas not perhaps as well bottomed out as more general engineering. However, designs are getting better all the time, and failures like this are mercifully rare - especially when you consider the number in service
Even so, I'd expect a man with an ultrasound probe to turn up and check the others for cracks in the same place, a failure after decade or so is not at all desirable, even if just the one..
"All necessary safety measures have been implemented immediately after the incident."
What does this mean?
"Even so, I'd expect a man with an ultrasound probe to turn up and check the others for cracks in the same place, a failure after decade or so is not at all desirable, even if just the one.."
I remember some chap designed a piece of kit to check very large underground gas pipes for prospective cracks
