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| Federal Regulators Shut Down Wind
Farm After Turbine Failure, "sharp fiberglass shards" Wash Ashore Off Martha's Vineyard The federal government has ordered the Vineyard Wind farm to shut down until further notice because of a turbine blade failure this weekend. Several beaches were closed on Tuesday while crews worked to clean up "large floating debris and fiberglass shards" from the broken wind turbine blade off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. A total of six south shore Nantucket beaches were closed to swimming due to debris that washed ashore. --::-- Not Bows and Flows of Angel Hair: It's Shards of Razor Sharp Fiberglass Everywhere Beege Welborn If you have a ferry ticket or one of those Ron DeSantis private flights into Nantucket this weekend, you can save yourself a little luggage weight by leaving your bathing suit, snorkeling gear, and Great White Off! Spray at home. Turns out the beaches are closed because of sharp objects in the water, but it's not shark chomps and toofers that's the problem this time. It's what happens when one of your totally Green, totally environmentally friendly, totally renewable, totally … expensive, largest spinning fugly thing on earth's fiberglass blade blows apart a couple of miles offshore.  Fiberglass from Shredded Wind Turbine Blades Renders Farming Land Useless Farmers foolish enough to enter contracts with wind power outfits soon live to regret it. Having their land permanently contaminated by shredded fiberglass when turbines explode into balls of flame and/or their blades merely disintegrate (known in the trade as “component liberation”) is just one of a list of disasters waiting to happen. At first blush, being paid an annual license fee of $10-25,000 per turbine, per year sounds lucrative enough. However, put that against the $600,000 plus cost of demolishing and removing a single turbine, and the deal soon loses its gloss. Indeed, the ultimate multi-million-dollar cost of removing dozens of turbines from a farming property, makes the piddling revenue stream look like chump change. |