Videos from National Wind Watch
A 10-year-old Vestas turbine near Århus, Denmark, spins out of control during a storm on Feb. 22, 2008. It effectively explodes when one of the blades hits the tower. According to a Feb. 25 report by Kent Kroyer in Ingeniøren, "large, sharp pieces of fiberglas from the blade rained down over the field east of the turbine, as far as 500 meters from the base of the turbine". Another collapse occurred in Sidinge [Vig?], Denmark, 2 days later: "one of the heavy blades flew 100 meters through the air and crashed to the ground with a boom". Kroyer continues: "It has not even been a month since a similar Vestas turbine at Nås in Gotland, Sweden, lost a blade in the same way as in Sidinge. In that case the blade flew 40 meters and hammered down in a field. A neighbor described the bang as 'a sonic boom or a car accident'. Before the New Year, a Vestas turbine in Northern England collapsed, and a month earlier a Vestas turbine collapsed in Scotland." Note that this is a 10-year-old 600-kW model and much smaller than today's behemoths.
Wind Turbine Breaks Up in Storm
(Denmark)
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* Welcome to Mars Hill *
(Maine; 22 min.)
* Voices of Tug Hill *
(Lewis County, N.Y.; 21 min.)
Wind Turbines at Tug Hill
(8 min.)
* Life Under a Windplant *
(Meyersdale, Pa.; 26 min.)
* Wisconsin Wind *
(Fond du Lac County and Lincoln Township; 1 hr. 49 min.)
Helen Fraser Interview
(Shelburne, Ont.; 21 min.)
Amaranth Wind Turbines, Noise and Health: Barbara Ashbee Interview
(Amaranth, Ont.; 17 min.)
Wind Farms: Is There a Hidden Health Hazard?
(Oregon: Wind Turbine Syndrome; 4.5 min.)
What Wind Turbines Sound Like
(Fond du Lac County, Wis.; 2.5 min.)
* The Wind Isn't Free *
(Fond du Lac County, Wis.; 7.5 min.)
Wind Turbine Noise and Shadow Flicker
(Fond du Lac County, Wis.; 9 min.)
Industrial Wind Turbine Shadow Flicker in Wisconsin 2008
(Fond du Lac County, Wis.; 2.5 min.)
Shadow Flicker and Noise
(Freedom, Maine; 3 videos)
Wind Turbine Strobe Lights and Eerie Noises
(Fenner and Wethersfield, N.Y.; 7 min.)
The Wind Farm at Little Bay: How Close Is Too Close?
(Hull, Mass.; 11 min.)
The Truth About Industrial Wind Energy
(Kansas; 12 presentations)
Protecting Texas
(Abilene; 3 min.)
Noise of Turbine in Aberdeenshire
(Scotland; 2 min.)
Sound Recording
(Wales)
Wind Turbine Breaks Up in Storm
(Denmark; 3 videos)
Wind Turbine Collapses
(Weatherford, Okla.; 2 min.)
Burning Wind Turbine
(Portugal; 4.5 min.)
Wind Turbine Fire
(Germany)
Washing Wind Turbine from Helicopter
(Spain; 3 min.)
National Protest in France
(Paris)
The Battle for Cefn Croes
(Wales)
The Destruction of Cefn Croes
(photo collection)
Wind Madness
(U.K.)
Wind Turbines Are Coming
(U.K.)
Living Next Door to a Wind Farm
(Australia)
Shadow Flicker
(The Netherlands; 3 min.)
Abandoned Wind Farm on the Road to South Point
(Hawaii; 14 sec.)
Raptors and Wind Turbines
(Norway; 6.5 min.)
See more videos at the National Wind Watch You Tube page
(click here)
Available at Super Highway On Line,
by courtesy of Dave Kaminsky:
A Rough Wind
The Impact of Industrial Windmill Facilities on Birds and Other Wildlife
(produced by the Allegheny Plateau Audubon Society, Johnstown, Pa. -- 210-MB MPG, 20 min.)
NWW also recommends:
The Politics of Peat
RTE News footage of the bog slides caused by wind facility construction in Derrybrien and other sites in Co. Galway, Ireland
(compiled by the Scottish Wind Assessment Project)
Write to SWAP to obtain a copy.
See photos of the Derrybrien slide at North Atlantic Skyline.
