Wind Turbines Destroyed by Typhoon Yagi

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September 9, 2024 2:12 pm

Oh dear
How sad
Never mind!

Bryan A
Reply to  Leo Smith
September 9, 2024 2:30 pm

Nothing beats trying to control climate weather with power sources that can’t withstand bad climate weather

Reply to  Bryan A
September 9, 2024 2:43 pm

And there is no guarantee that any actually left standing will be functional and safe to use.

Hopefully they will just rip the whole lot down. !

More junk for land-fill..

Looks like they have a lot of road repairs to do as well.

Reply to  bnice2000
September 9, 2024 4:16 pm

All the metals will be recovered like the 4 ton of cooper in the electricity generator.

Jeff Alberts
Reply to  Harold Pierce
September 9, 2024 4:57 pm

That’s a biiig cooper!

Reply to  Jeff Alberts
September 9, 2024 5:31 pm

I wonder if the pirates will figure out how to break into the tower and nacelle, and steal the copper.

Reply to  Harold Pierce
September 10, 2024 2:56 am

That’s cold comfort when everything else is blown to crap.

$250,000 wind turbine, but they can recover $50 of copper…….

Reply to  HotScot
September 10, 2024 5:10 am

Ah no, scrap copper gets you about $3.00/lb. So if there is 4 ton, or 8,000 lbs of it, that is $24,000 just the for copper. The 30 tons of steel is another $5-10,000 for scrap value. Still nowhere near the value of the original machine, but most certainly not $50….

sciguy54
Reply to  D Boss
September 12, 2024 7:52 am

The easy-to-harvest scrap will be recycled. I wonder what the foundations look like? Might be tons of rebar in those, too difficult to chisel out. The foundations will likely puzzle archaeologists millennia from now.

Reply to  sciguy54
September 12, 2024 1:01 pm

Yeah their reaction will probably be “What the hell were they thinking? This was under water at the time.”

September 9, 2024 2:14 pm

Brings a tear to my eye and a little ray of hope.

Reply to  Phil R
September 9, 2024 2:40 pm

Brings a tear to my eye”

Tears of laughter. 🙂

J Boles
September 9, 2024 2:14 pm

HA! HA! How I hate those things. Those are HUGE! Useless monstrosities, IMO. If one is able to build such things, then one does not need them.

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Reply to  J Boles
September 10, 2024 6:53 am

Yes, interesting.
Most folk here know just how big these bat-busters are, but for the uninitiated, the shot of almost ant-like people by a fallen machine may give a pause for thought.
I do hope the country [Taiwan?] in question does not depend much on the broken whirligigs, but uses them – at least, largely – for virtue signalling.

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Eng_Ian
September 9, 2024 2:19 pm

Anyone got drone footage of the solar farms in the path?

Now that would make some interesting viewing too.

Also…. now the windmills are out of action, how are they going to charge the electric cranes that will have to come to the scene to lift all the debris?

Reply to  Eng_Ian
September 9, 2024 7:16 pm

These big cranes have Diesel engines.

Reply to  Harold Pierce
September 12, 2024 1:03 pm

I get the whiff of sarcasm on the electric cranes comment.

Arthur Jackson
Reply to  AGW is Not Science
September 12, 2024 6:27 pm

They have diesel engines for blade heaters and blinking warning lights for air travel. They are a backup for the systems when the air isn’t moving. The combined cost of the back-up generators is huge, just make a big diesel generator in the first place.

Doud D
September 9, 2024 2:20 pm

And so let it be for all monstrosities.

heme212
September 9, 2024 2:25 pm

typhoons. who knew?

Bryan A
Reply to  heme212
September 9, 2024 2:32 pm

The obvious problem with weather dependent generation sources.

Reply to  Bryan A
September 9, 2024 3:46 pm

But you forget that these things are to stop “Climate Change. “Weather” isn’t “Climate”. 😎

Reply to  Gunga Din
September 12, 2024 1:06 pm

Except when it’s “bad.” Then it’s definitely climate change. /sarc

Reply to  Bryan A
September 12, 2024 1:05 pm

One of many obvious problems!

September 9, 2024 2:35 pm

oops
0perator
September 9, 2024 2:36 pm

Just cannot shake that inherent intermittency and reduced lifespan.

Rud Istvan
September 9, 2024 2:52 pm

Pictured is the Weng Chang wind farm in Hainan province. Typhoon Yagi came ashore there as a weak Cat 4.

Interestingly, the costly experimental twin counter rotating offshore 20 MW wind platform ‘Mingyang’ engineered to withstand Cat 5 did survive undamaged.

Reply to  Rud Istvan
September 9, 2024 3:07 pm

A “weak” Cat 4?

Those camouflaged paint jobs didn’t fool the typhoon one bit. They should sell billboard space on the next batch of windmills to cover the cost of insurance.

Len Werner
Reply to  Rud Istvan
September 9, 2024 8:55 pm

Although there is a range adjectives that could be applied to Category 4 hurricanes, on balance ‘weak’ is probably not one of the most appropriate ones. This site does seem a tad underdesigned for the threat; however, in their defence some did survive, which is impressive, I bet my ham antenna would not.

“Category 4: Catastrophic damage will occur
During a Category 4 hurricane, winds range from 130 to 156 mph. At these speeds, falling and flying debris poses a very high risk of injury or death to people, pets and livestock. Again, most mobile homes will be destroyed, even newer ones. Some frame homes may totally collapse, while well-built homes will likely see severe damage to their roofs, and apartment buildings can experience damage to upper floors.

A Category 4 hurricane will blow out most windows on high-rise buildings, uproot most trees and will likely down many power lines. Power outages can last for weeks or even months after storms of this level. Water shortages are also common in the aftermath of Category 4 hurricanes, potentially making the affected area uninhabitable for weeks or months.”

Reply to  Rud Istvan
September 10, 2024 3:00 am

Let’s hope there’s not a weak Cat 5 typhoon any time soon.

Reply to  HotScot
September 11, 2024 11:00 am

Maybe a “mostly peaceful” one 😉.

David Goeden
September 9, 2024 2:55 pm

Castles made of sand fall into the sea eventually.

Capn Mike
Reply to  David Goeden
September 9, 2024 5:46 pm

Jimi!!!!

Rick K
September 9, 2024 3:15 pm

The birds, bats and insects are happy!

Reply to  Rick K
September 12, 2024 1:41 pm

The whales and dolphins too!

September 9, 2024 3:20 pm

There is a poetic symmetry of wind turbines being destroyed by wind.

Bob
September 9, 2024 3:23 pm

Remove all wind and solar from the grid, now.

Jeff Alberts
Reply to  Bob
September 9, 2024 4:59 pm

Done!

Reply to  Bob
September 9, 2024 5:14 pm

Or require them to be dispatchable on a monthly schedule. Then heavily penalised for any inability to meet the scheduled demand.

To do this, each wind turbine would need a dedicated its own gas, diesel, coal or wood fuelled power source. And you would not be able to nominate more capacity than the on-site dispatchable source.

Remove all mandated theft as well as require dispatchability and lets see how cheap WDGs are.

The last power station built ion Australia was a 750MW unit at Kogamn Creek. The miner and generating plant cost $857M.

Snowy 2 stated out as a $4.5bn project to be completed this year but the last estimate, now a year old is $12bn and completion end of 2028. TBM Florence has been stuck again. The last I heard in August was that it had now done 850m of the 17,000m headache tunnel. A second TBM has been approved to start at the other end of the headache tunnel to try to recover some of the lost time. So the budget will blow out again.

Australia could have renewed more than half its fleet of coal generators for the cost of Snowy 2. The worst part of it is that Snowy 2 is an energy sink. It costs around 40% of the incoming energy to time shift it from middle of the day to early evening.

Mr.
Reply to  RickWill
September 9, 2024 8:21 pm

A Turnbull brain fart.

September 9, 2024 3:40 pm

Something there is that doesn’t love a wind turbine.

(Apologies to R. Frost)

September 9, 2024 3:43 pm

This was in China?
China has plenty of coal plants to take up the slack.

Reply to  Gunga Din
September 10, 2024 2:01 am

Yuh, these wind farms were probably fake anyway.

George Thompson
September 9, 2024 3:49 pm

I simply can’t wait to see what’s gonna happen when the East coast windfarms-actual and/or under construction-meet a good old fashioned Atlantic coast hugging hurricane. Lots of luck, greenie-whacks…

Rud Istvan
Reply to  George Thompson
September 9, 2024 3:59 pm

Doesn’t have to be a rare hurricane. Good old common nor’easters, first explained by Ben Franklin, will do.

hdhoese
Reply to  Rud Istvan
September 9, 2024 6:05 pm

There was a famous nor’easter N of Cape Hatteras in the early 60s, recall maybe early 1962 which was also famous for a fish killing freeze in Texas. If there is a 60 year cycle it might be interesting. Apparently the wind turbine field N of Corpus Christi was just below the stronger winds of Harvey. Another interesting experiment to occur someday unless they first turn into fossils as many did in the 1980s.

Reply to  George Thompson
September 9, 2024 4:24 pm

The nor’easters will get them before the hurricanes. You should check out the Wikipedia file on “nor’easters” which goes back to 1888.

Reply to  Harold Pierce
September 9, 2024 5:06 pm

Never understood why the greenies/teals won’t put wind turbines on Sydney’s North Head and South Head 😉 (either side of the entrance to Sydney Harbour)

Near vacant land, close to peak demand region… Plenty of strong coastal breezes, never any hurricanes.

Heck… even room for a huge battery or two.

Worse that can happen is a strong east coast low, but they mainly bring huge downpours of rain.

Can anyone think of a reason? 😉

Mr.
Reply to  bnice2000
September 9, 2024 7:09 pm

Have to pay the local Aboriginal Land Councils more $$$$$s than the turbines will ever generate in revenue?

Reply to  Mr.
September 9, 2024 8:53 pm

Might be a small NIMBY aspect to it, as well 😉

Beta Blocker
September 9, 2024 4:32 pm

The video’s musical score …. Requiem for a Turbine

Reply to  Beta Blocker
September 10, 2024 2:07 am

nailed it!

September 9, 2024 5:16 pm

The video looks like one of CTM’s AI-generated dystopias.

pgeo
September 9, 2024 7:38 pm

An engineering failure! Were climate scientists employed to design and build these wind turbines?

mleskovarsocalrrcom
September 9, 2024 7:48 pm

So $Billions later we realize this might not be the best way to go? Really?

D Sandberg
September 9, 2024 9:37 pm

`Another example of how great wind is for the economy.. Think of all the jobs cleaning up the mess and replacing them every time a storm blows through. Progressive Progress.

Reply to  D Sandberg
September 10, 2024 3:53 pm

The Broken Window Theory fallacy was described in detail by French economist Frédéric Bastiat in 1850.

Rod Evans
September 9, 2024 11:02 pm

Before we were cursed with renewable energy constructions, both wind turbines and solar arrays, we rarely, if ever, had a power station failure. The ones that did fail, made the headlines and became drivers of policy and design change. Chernobyl being the most significant man made and thankfully one off event.
Compare that rarity, with the now regular news of natural weather events destroying renewable energy constructions.
The North Sea coast of Britain, is well known for its storms and natural disasters, it won’t be long before the inevitable happens.
The weather gods are sending the Climate Alarmists a message, sadly their closed minds are not hearing it.

September 10, 2024 1:16 am

And they said it was foolish for the Japanese to build a nuclear power plant in an area renowned for earthquakes. At least Fukushima did activate the safety protocols following the earthquake, it was the tsunami that broke the camel’s back when it shorted the batteries driving the safety measures.
Chernobyl was of course human error.
Why would you build a huge, potentially unstable structures in an area where there are hurricanes/typhoons?

Reply to  JohnC
September 10, 2024 9:19 am

Why would you build a huge, potentially unstable structures in an area where there are hurricanes/typhoons?

Willful ignorance, at best.

September 10, 2024 2:54 am

All those beautifully painted turbine towers.

You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.

SCInotFI
Reply to  HotScot
September 10, 2024 4:20 am

And the ‘funeral’ video…such saaaad music to help us grieve the loss – NOT

September 10, 2024 4:42 am

Well, at least they painted them in nice colours rather than the boring white 😀