{"id":2001627,"date":"2023-08-15T17:38:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T21:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/not-so-green-wind-turbine-bursts-into-flames-will-likely-be-left-to-burn-itself-out\/"},"modified":"2023-08-15T17:43:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T21:43:53","slug":"not-so-green-wind-turbine-bursts-into-flames-will-likely-be-left-to-burn-itself-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/not-so-green-wind-turbine-bursts-into-flames-will-likely-be-left-to-burn-itself-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind turbine catches fire, expected to burn out on its own."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnot-so-green-wind-turbine-bursts-into-flames-will-likely-be-left-to-burn-itself-out%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2001627&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Not \u200bSo &#8216;Green&#8217;: \u2063Wind Turbine\u200c Bursts\u2063 Into Flames, Will Likely Be\u200d Left\u2062 to Burn Itself Out<\/h2>\n<p>Something\u200c about that monument to clean energy, a failed\u2064 giant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-to-believe-when-experts-lie\/\" title=\"What to Believe When Experts Lie?\">wind turbine<\/a> \u200bbelching lots of smoke into the atmosphere, \u200dmakes me \u200cthink \u200dof an old Road Runner cartoon.<\/p>\n<p>Coyote sets up a giant whirling device entitled \u201cAcme Bird Catcher,\u201d and somehow Road \u2062Runner \u2014 beep beep \u2014 eludes\u2064 it and breaks the device, \u200cleaving a\u2062 charred coyote atop \u200dthe wrecked machine.<\/p>\n<p>Look closely. Can you see the coyote?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">UK \u2013 Oops \u2026. Wrong \u200bkind of wind today.<\/p>\n<p>wind turbine in Scroby Sands has burst into flames, kicking out more carbon today\u2063 than it \u2062would have reduced\u200d in\u2064 its lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>Oh\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DnwXb0zgs5\">pic.twitter.com\/DnwXb0zgs5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bernie\u2019s Tweets (@BernieSpofforth) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BernieSpofforth\/status\/1691456549582200832?\">August 15, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Naw. Me neither.<\/p>\n<p>But we\u200b can see \u2063one Acme Planet Saver not doing\u2064 its\u200c job. And, when one of these things catches <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/hawaiis-first-line-defense-likely-failed-maui-fires-says-congresswoman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fire<\/a>,\u2063 how\u2062 do\u200b you \u200dput it out?<\/p>\n<p>After all, this 200-foot tall turbine is a mile and \u2063a half off of\u2062 the east\u2062 coast of Britain.<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\" class=\"one-half\">\n<div class=\"firefly-poll-question\">Do you think wind turbines are as great as everyone says?<\/div>\n<div id=\"pollFormBox\" style=\"display: none\">\n<ul>\n<li><label><input type=\"radio\" name=\"answer\">Yes<\/label><\/li>\n<li><label><input type=\"radio\" name=\"answer\">No<\/label><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"firefly-poll-disclaimer\">\n<p>\t\t\tCompleting this poll \u200bentitles you to The Western Journal news updates \u2062free of charge. You may opt out\u200d at anytime. You \u200calso agree to\u2063 our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/about\/privacy-policy\/\">Privacy Policy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/about\/terms-service\/\">Terms of Use<\/a>.\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-results\" style=\"display: none\">\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-results-yes\" style=\"width: 0%\">\n<p>\t\t\tYes: 0% (0 Votes)\n\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-results-no\" style=\"width: 100%\">\n<p>\t\t\tNo: 100%\u200b (6 Votes)\n\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>What \u200dcan you \u2063do?<\/p>\n<p>Nothing. The fire\u200d will just have to burn\u200d itself out, with all that smoke going into the atmosphere, probably\u2062 providing more pollution than\u200d it was designed to replace.<\/p>\n<p>The turbine is\u2063 part of the Scroby Sands wind farm offshore from Great Yarmouth in\u200d Norfolk, \u2062U.K. RWE, the German company operating \u200dit,\u2062 said \u2063the wind farm\u2019s 60 megawatt capacity can provide power for more than\u200d 48,000 homes, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-norfolk-66510193\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Except\u2064 this week \u2014 the\u200c fire shut \u2062down much or all of the wind farm \u2064for perhaps 24 hours. And the \u200bBritish Coast Guard is\u2064 enforcing a no-go zone of about 1,500 \u2063feet around the broken machine.<\/p>\n<p>There are problems with \u200cthese would-be magic \u2062energy producers. True, a fire is an exceptional event, and\u2062 such an incident can\u2062 shut \u2064down any other \u2064kind of \u2062power\u2063 plant \u2014 coal, gas, hydro, solar, or nuclear.<\/p>\n<p>But both \u200bwind and solar power are especially susceptible to\u2064 disruptions of the\u2063 natural kind\u200b \u2014 if the wind\u200d doesn\u2019t blow (or<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/high-winds-cause-wind-turbine-meant-spin-wind-spin-control-fall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> blows too hard<\/a>) or if the sun doesn\u2019t shine, these power sources are out of business.<\/p>\n<p>And as governments \u2063attempt to replace the laws \u200dof physics \u200cwith their own\u200c laws mandating more dependence on this\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/california-caught-off-guard-sun-sets-solar-energy-production-tanks-now-begging-outside-power-avoid-blackouts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iffy green energy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texans-hit-with-thousands-of-dollars-in-energy-costs-wont-get-bills-reduced\/\" title=\"Texans Hit With Thousands Of Dollars In Energy Costs Won\u2019t Get Bills Reduced\">power companies<\/a> are having a more difficult time ensuring\u200b cheap, reliable power.<\/p>\n<p>Ask Texas.<\/p>\n<p>That state\u2019s close brush\u200c with total electrical grid failure in a cold snap\u200b in \u200c2021 came \u2064due to \u2063over-dependence upon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/frozen-wind-turbines-texas-expose-major-flaw-renewable-energy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">green \u2064power\u2064 generation<\/a>, energy expert Jonathan\u200c Lesser told \u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/politics\/texas-power-crisis-underscores-green-energy-unreliability-expert-says-expect-blackouts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox Business<\/a> last\u2063 year.<\/p>\n<p>Of course,\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/news-politics\/texas-electric-grid-failure-warm-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">liberal media<\/a> blamed obscene-profiting natural gas\u2064 companies for \u2064the crisis since they didn\u2019t \u2062properly winterize their facilities.<\/p>\n<p>That said, for my money I\u2019ll\u200d go \u200bwith\u200d Lesser\u2019s explanation, given that parts of Texas seem to have a gas well on every other acre, and somehow I think Texans can figure out how to get\u2063 the stuff \u2064to the power\u2062 plants.<\/p>\n<p>Back to the burning wind turbine. While I realize road \u2063runners \u2063can\u2019t fly (and \u2063run\u200b slower than coyotes, but that\u2019s another story), the plight of birds and the big windmills are intertwined.<\/p>\n<p>Wind turbines have \u200blong\u2064 been known to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/woman-finds-eagle-mutilated-wind-turbine-horrified-see-happened-wing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">kill birds<\/a>.\u2064 Lots of them \u2014 the \u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/abcbirds.org\/blog21\/wind-turbine-mortality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Bird Conservancy<\/a> estimates \u2063the U.S. turbine bird death toll as being up to\u200c 700,000 annually.<\/p>\n<p>But the \u2063ABC seems reluctant to \u2064put out this figure since, don\u2019t you know, wind turbines are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/7th-dead-whale-washes-near-planned-green-energy-hotspot-offshore-wind-projects-killing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">preserving the climate<\/a>. And after all, they say, look at those evil\u200b old power lines. Why, they kill more than \u200d30\u2062 million birds each year.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200dABC almost seems to be saying \u2014 What \u2062are a\u2063 few \u2063hundred \u200dthousand birds if we \u2064save the planet? \u00a0Funny how so many of these left-leaning NGOs think the\u200b same way.<\/p>\n<p>But look at it like this: What if we \u2063knew those\u2062 more than half million birds were being killed by, say, \u2063Peabody Coal or ExxonMobile?<\/p>\n<p>Liberal\u2063 media \u2064would be up in arms, with\u2064 nightly images of dead birds, and activists\u2063 would be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/not-so-green-wind-turbine-bursts-into-flames-will-likely-be-left-to-burn-itself-out\/\" title=\"Wind turbine catches fire, expected to burn out on its own.\">sending stink-bomb-laden stuffed animals<\/a> to\u2064 the companies\u2019 board \u200cmembers.<\/p>\n<p>But not\u200d so with problems related to green energy, \u200dwhich\u2062 shows a lot \u200bof this is about more than science or technology or \u200brational thinking.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s about religion. And the climate gods must\u2063 be appeased no matter \u2062how much the \u200bsacrifice or the hypocrisy.<\/p>\n<p>But \u200dat this\u2062 rate, we may \u200bbe headed for a declining\u2062 standard of living \u200band \u2063perhaps \u2014 no pun intended \u2014 a new dark age.<\/p>\n<p>Even as \u200dwe \u2062put up more of our\u200c shiny\u2063 new Acme Energy Machines.<\/p>\n<p>Beep Beep.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/not-green-wind-turbine-bursts-flames-will-likely-left-burn\/\">Not So &#8216;Green&#8217;: Wind\u200c Turbine Bursts Into Flames, Will Likely Be Left\u2064 to Burn Itself Out<\/a> \u200b appeared first\u2063 on \u2063 <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western\u2062 Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The failed giant wind turbine, emitting smoke, reminds me of a Road Runner cartoon. Coyote&#8217;s &#8220;Acme Bird Catcher&#8221; fails as Road Runner escapes, destroying the device. Similarly, the monument to clean energy disappoints, resembling the comical failure of Coyote&#8217;s contraption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":2001628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2001627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2001627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2001628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2001627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2001627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2001627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}