{"id":572744,"date":"2021-06-24T12:21:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T16:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=572744"},"modified":"2021-06-24T12:21:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T16:21:13","slug":"fact-check-did-the-heat-melt-this-wind-turbine-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-the-heat-melt-this-wind-turbine-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did The Heat Melt This Wind Turbine In Texas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Ffact-check-did-the-heat-melt-this-wind-turbine-in-texas%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=572744&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Wind-turbine-scaled-e1624496832279.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/john.brown.549668\/posts\/6323667557658887\">shared on Facebook<\/a> over 700 times allegedly shows a Texas wind turbine that partially melted because of the heat.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service in Houston attributed the wind turbine\u2019s damage to a recent storm in a tweet. A spokesperson for the company that operates the wind turbine said it was not damaged by heat or high temperatures.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/john.brown.549668\/posts\/6323667557658887\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">viral image<\/a> shows a wind turbine with its blades seemingly bent straight down. At the time of the June 14 Facebook post, Texas and many western states were experiencing a heat wave that had temperatures hitting triple digits, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/weather\/2021\/06\/16\/heat-wave-arizona-california-western-us-bake-triple-digits\/7721768002\/\">USA Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis Texas heat is getting ridiculous!\u201d reads the post\u2019s caption. \u201cMelting our damn wind turbines.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/02\/17\/fact-check-helicopter-deicer-fossil-fuels-wind-turbine-texas\/\">(RELATED: Does This Photo Show A Helicopter Spraying De-Icer Made From Fossil Fuels On A Texas Wind Turbine In 2021?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A reverse image search traced the photo back to a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NWSHouston\/status\/1404594541861163010?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 14 tweet<\/a> from the verified Twitter account of the National Weather Service in Houston. In the tweet, the National Weather Service attributed the damage to a storm, not high temperatures.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"7.2272727272727\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The power of wind. (Damage to a wind turbine near Wadsworth in Matagorda County from a storm that passed through around 340pm). <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/osGB1sAocw\">pic.twitter.com\/osGB1sAocw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NWS Houston (@NWSHouston) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NWSHouston\/status\/1404594541861163010?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe power of wind. (Damage to a wind turbine near Wadsworth in Matagorda County from a storm that passed through around 340pm),\u201d reads the tweet.<\/p>\n<p>RWE Renewables operates 48 wind turbines in Matagorda County, Texas, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.victoriaadvocate.com\/news\/business\/wind-farms-become-operational-in-matagorda-refugio-counties\/article_1b241440-0c28-11eb-baf2-d76d3ff9b0ef.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Victoria Advocate<\/a> and a <a href=\"https:\/\/americas.rwe.com\/press\/2020-03-03-peyton-creek-comes-online\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press release<\/a> on the company\u2019s website. The damaged wind turbine in the viral photo appears to belong to RWE Renewables.<\/p>\n<p>When reached for comment, RWE Renewables communication manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/news\/pr_newswire\/pr_newswire_business\/boiling-springs-starts-commercial-operation-as-rwe-u-s-first-onshore-wind-farm-in-oklahoma\/article_7399ae67-1dcf-582b-9832-203193ba7854.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matt Tulis<\/a> confirmed the company \u201cdid have damage to one of the turbines on our project in Matagorda County, Texas, potentially resulting from a storm last week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur onsite team is evaluating the cause and extent of the damage to the one turbine affected,\u201d Tulis said in an email to Check Your Fact. \u201cThe damage to the turbine was definitely NOT related to heat or high temperatures. We haven\u2019t received any reports of injuries to any of our team or damage to any of the surrounding property and it looks like the damage is confined to the one turbine only.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Check Your Fact didn\u2019t find any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/search\/?action=search&#038;firstRequest=1&#038;searchindex=solr&#038;query=wind+turbine+melt+heat&#038;search=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Texas<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/search\/?q=wind+turbine+melt+heat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">media<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/search\/?q=wind+turbine+melt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">outlets<\/a> reporting on high temperatures melting the blades of a wind turbine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook over 700 times allegedly shows a Texas wind turbine that partially melted because of the heat.Verdict: False The National Weather Service in Houston attributed the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2281215,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Wind-turbine-scaled-e1624496832279.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"FACT CHECK: Did The Heat Melt This Wind Turbine In Texas?","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Wind-turbine-scaled-e1624496832279.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"FACT CHECK: Did The Heat Melt This Wind Turbine In Texas?","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572744","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}