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It’s rare to say that a video of a burning wind turbine went viral on Twitter, but it was: more than 10 and a half million people have played it. The peculiarity of the clip, what makes it hypnotic, is the sinister design that the smoke of the burning turbine forms in the sky.
The video was uploaded by the meteorologist Mike Collierby KJRH of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and engraved by Brent Havins. “This is near Cromwell, okay. Brent Havins shot this video of a wind turbine being struck by lightning, ”Collier wrote along with the footage.
“The most amazing thing about this video, as one of the OPs said in my thread, is that the blades keep spinning despite the loss of a blade. There is no slowness. As if everything is being rotated by a motor instead of the wind. “said the reporter below. Caroline Coram.
The fire disintegrated the turbine wings. The generator and the tower are also burned. The lightning, which struck the turbine, ignited at 54,000 degrees Fahrenheit (29,000 degrees Celsius), according to AS.
The fire, in turn, damaged the engines used by these turbines to orient themselves in the wind.
In this particular case, the turbomachinery caught fire despite being generally equipped with lightning protection systems. When lightning strikes a protected turbine, the impact is conducted to the ground.
Photo: Twitter capture
Wind turbines are turbomachines that exchange momentum with the wind, spinning a rotor. The mechanical energy of the rotor shaft can be used for various applications such as grinding, in the case of windmills; pumping water, in the case of wind pumps; or for the generation of electricity, in wind farms.
Snow storm
In late March, a snowstorm caused a massive crash on Interstate 81 in Pennsylvania, United States, resulting in one of the most shocking videos of the year.
The accident involved more than 50 vehicles., many of them tow trucks. The chain incident occurred in Schuylkill County, near Harrisburg, at 10:36 am.
Spokesperson for the Schuylkill Office of Emergency Management, John Blickley, confirmed the number of people transferred to hospitals, but did not mention deaths. “The road conditions when the storm came contributed to the crash,” she added. Several media outlets, such as Independent and Insider Paper, have assured that there have been three deaths and at least twenty hospitalized.
In a video uploaded by the reporter Joe Holden On Twitter you can see the exact moment when a group of cars collide on the Pennsylvania highway. The clip shows the poor visibility of vehicle drivers during the snowstorm that caused the accident.
The New York Times added that the crash slowed traffic for several miles, making it difficult for emergency services to arrive in time to help the injured.
In turn, the threat of more snowstorms further complicated rescuers’ efforts, as forecasts forced authorities to close the route for a few hours.
Source: Clarin
