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Strong Wind Topples a Wind Turbine in Japan (digitaltrends.com)

Posted by msmash on from the can't-withstand dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Strong gusts brought by Typhoon Cimaron on Friday, August 24, toppled a massive wind turbine in western Japan, local media reported. The 60-meter-tall turbine was located in a park on Awaji Island, 275 miles west of Tokyo, but was wrenched from its base in the early hours of Friday morning as the typhoon pummeled a large part of the Japanese archipelago. Fortunately no one was under the wind turbine when it came down, or indeed on it. Built in 2002, the turbine had been out of commission since May last year after being struck by lightning, according to the Japan Times. News footage showed how the turbine had been torn from its base by the strong winds, with its 20-meter-long blades badly damaged by the impact with the ground. It's not yet clear if the base had been weakened in some way prior to the typhoon.

2 of 172 comments (clear)

  1. They're dangerous! by Thelasko · · Score: 5, Funny

    See, these things are dangerous! I've been saying it for years. We'll all be much safer with coal.

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    One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
  2. OMG, all of that spilled wind everywhere by TheDigitalOne · · Score: 5, Funny

    It'll take centuries to clean it all up!