Posted on 08/29/2022 3:42:54 PM PDT by Kevin in California
11-story tall blades flew the full length of a football field and plowed a 4-feet deep furrow in a wheat field. The heavy-duty bolts that kept the blade attached to the tower scattered like shrapnel.
A new report has revealed the unreliability of a major Oregon wind farm, discovered after a blade from a windmill detached and flew across the field.
According to The Oregonian, in January, a delivery driver found some broken, industrial-size bolts on the ground near one of Portland General Electric’s towering wind turbines but did not know who to tell and used it as a paperweight.
“industrial-sized bolts”.
Is that like a picture-sized TV screen?
Guys watching porn on the Heat Treating plant’s night shift.
And those ratepayers will complain vociferously about having to eat that cost. Too bad, Oregon greenies. You asked for experimental "green" power and you got it. Not only do the machines have lousy capacity factors (28% is typical), they don't produce as much as expected, have shorter lives than predicted, and you have to pay for early retirement when the crap out.
What's not to like?
Vestas and Siemens are not using Chinese fasteners. Lack of inspection and maintenance is the problem.
Yep. Counterfeit junk made by the Red Chinamen. Supposedly spec grade fasteners tested to ASTM and mil-spec standards, nothing but pure fake BS ricer parts. The scary thing is that a lot of our civil and military aircraft are flying unaware of the ticking time bomb holding the rigs together.
Threaded cheese.
You misspelled Vespas and Semens.
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Every time I walk through Harbor Freight I ask my self, this is what I am afraid of?
https://www.justice.gov/usao-or/pr/coos-bay-company-its-owner-and-four-employees-plead-guilty-fraud-defense-contracts-0
Apparently there’s good money to be made by bidding at spec and sneaking in cheap metal.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-aircraft-parts-employee-gets-prison-for-selling-military-defective-helicopter-bolts
How are these Post Milineal News articles getting posted.
Everytime I try to open this story my page gets locked on a donation link. It happened on a story yesterday too.
Well if you’re not making a living with the tools, I’d say the HF stuff is good value.
And those Predator gas engines really are good. They cribbed the previous gen Honda dead nuts. I hear a lot of the parts even interchange. I’ve got a couple on go karts that have run 5 years w/o problems.
There were counterfeit grade 12 bolts used in jet liners that were a much lower grade but still cadmium plated. This was back in the 90s I think. This was the cause of some mishaps, though my memory of this is foggy.
Today the world is flooded with Chinese counterfeits of most anything. Could be that these bolts were too.
China is the major benefactor of the US Green New Deal power generation and all things EV. Making China rich one EV at a time.
Yep. There are a lot of women walking around the US with $5000 handbags they paid $100 for.
The only thing that would make this better is if Regretta Turdburg were standing in the field and the blade landed on her.
Surprising that we haven’t seen more things coming apart. Like trains jumping the track due to track failure, ships
coming apart, cars coming apart, etc. etc.
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