Thursday, February 01, 2007

Fenner Blade Failure January 28, 2007


"The photo is taken at Fenner Wind Farm on Sunday, January 28th at 2 p.m. Unfortunately it was snowing and visibility was bad. Half the wind turbines were turning, the rest were not. The only thing that drew my attention to the site was the crane. As I looked closer, the blade at 6 o'clock is sheared off, what appears to be either material failure, lightening, I don't know."

Nothing of this has been reported through web-based news sources. We do not know how far the broken piece was thrown from the turbine.

This image is remarkable similar to the Searsburg blade break which occurred in Spring 2006 during the severe wind storm in New England/New York. A photo can be found at http://www.windaction.org/pictures/2185.

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