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I'm wondering how they knew that turbine was going to fail, in enough time to set up a camera to watch it. Did they just know that a storm of that magnitude would cause the turbine to fail, and they mounted a camera to watch it until they did? If so, why didn't they, knowing said turbine was in risk of failure, do something about it? I mean, someone must have, in the long history of wind turbines, figured out an appropriate design contingency for a hurricane force wind that would preserve the turbine. (For example, in the event of winds over X (as measured by rotations of the turbine over Y RPM) the blades could be allowed to rotate freely on their long axis, such that they end up parallel and "sailing" into the wind, and thus not producing effective rotation).
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Date: 2008-02-29 05:44 am (UTC)I'm wondering how they knew that turbine was going to fail, in enough time to set up a camera to watch it. Did they just know that a storm of that magnitude would cause the turbine to fail, and they mounted a camera to watch it until they did? If so, why didn't they, knowing said turbine was in risk of failure, do something about it? I mean, someone must have, in the long history of wind turbines, figured out an appropriate design contingency for a hurricane force wind that would preserve the turbine. (For example, in the event of winds over X (as measured by rotations of the turbine over Y RPM) the blades could be allowed to rotate freely on their long axis, such that they end up parallel and "sailing" into the wind, and thus not producing effective rotation).