Vestas wind turbine fire

Here you can see how a Vestas wind turbine burns down. I built with a friend of mine.
I am not against wind power, actually I like it. I don't like Vestas because those wind turbines have often accidents.

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[germanborrillo]

@VestasBurnsWell I totally agree, I see you understand much about these things. ENERCON THE BEST!!!

[VestasBurnsWell]

@thedutchful Yes, you are right.

[VestasBurnsWell]

@germanborrillo Yes, your right, but I have to say: The frequency of vibrations come from bad bearings built in a wind turbine. I think also that high-speed shafts like built in gearbox-driven wind turbines can make a resonant frequency of vibrations if the bearings are from very low quality. Direct driven wind turbines do not have this problems

so easily. I'm just 13 years old, but I am interested in this wind energy stuff. :D

[germanborrillo]

@VestasBurnsWell My conclusion: 90% of accidents on wind turbines, are caused by bad maintenance, for example the case of the generator that fell to the ground in my village. a generator does not fall so easily, I am convinced that it could happen to any other model and probably was caused by poor maintenance and according to the study conducted, because of a resonant frequency of vibration. In one of these frequencies even more resistant parts are broken in pieces, and can not be avoided.

[thedutchful]

@germanborrillo Please do....

[thedutchful]

@VestasBurnsWell Blades are constructed to resist the highest windspeeds ofcourse there is a limit but most turbines stop operating above 25 m/s.

I don't think they are developing blades for not windy conditions....

[thedutchful]

@germanborrillo It's a fact that Enercon has problems with their blades, here in Holland blades are changed at different sites.

[VestasBurnsWell]

@germanborrillo Accidents happen not so often. But, wind turbines have to be proven ones, it mustn't happen that a wind turbine falls to the ground like that Gamesa, imagine

that turbine falls to a group of people. Me and Nuklearfreak drove to the Enercon wind turbines almost every Saturday in the last summer, we were testing our Lego wind turbines there. I can imagine that the E-40 had many blade breaks, I think it's supposed to operate in not so windy regions like mine.

[germanborrillo]

@VestasBurnsWell I must say that accidents are rare in wind turbines. In the region where I live (province of Burgos, in Spain) there are over 700 Gamesa and Vestas and only two of them have burned since 2000, serious accident occurred only one, in my town (Dobro), a generator of Gamesa IG47 fell to the ground from 40 metres. On the contrary blade breaks have occurred much more in the Enercon E-40 (about 5 times since 2000). I can upload a video about these accidents that occurred in my region.

[thedutchful]

@VestasBurnsWell  I like the direct drive system from Enercon but I don't like the way how the turbine looks. I like the Vestas or NEG Micon nacelles more.