Sadly there’s no spectacular crash-fail at the end, but you can still enjoy the pretty smoke-spirals, and – if you’re like me – the smug satisfaction of knowing that wind power has flaws that makes Greenies blush and stammer when you bring them up.
[Windmill Fire Live Video Palladam Tamilnadu 2016] (Viewer #789,579)
What happened that *two* windmills were burning at the same time?
Suicide pact.
It’s likely that components would fail close to the same time in devices of the same age. What I’ve never understood with wind farms is why so few of the windmills are actually turning.There are huge wind farms west of Sacramento, and it’s the same there, with a large percentage of them standing idle.
I’ve read that the turbines have braking systems that shut them down when the wind speed is too high, to prevent failures like these. Perhaps the brakes in the two were similarly faulty, and obviously were exposed to a similar wind load at the same time. According to the video description, it was “Due to high voltage and technical fault so it is fired and running high speed,” whatever that means. Coincidentally, I think that was one of Hillary’s excuses about what happened to her email server.