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World-longest: 436-feet, 73-ton heavy offshore wind turbine blade loaded in China
A 436-foot-long (133-meter-long), 73.8-ton (67-tonne) wind turbine blade was successfully loaded onto a ship at Yangzhou Port ...
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Broken wind turbine off Nantucket damaged again by lightning strike, company says
Parts of turbine fell into ocean There's a dozen wind turbines in the waters off the coast of Nantucket and each one weighs about 70 tons. In July 2024, parts of a blade fell off and sent debris ...
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Botched wind turbine blade delivery takes out tree and street signs in rural town
Trouble is brewing between a regional Victorian council and the authority governing the safe transport of massive wind turbine parts, after a truck carrying a 70 metre turbine blade caused damage ...
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Advanced Cooling Technologies’ Loop Thermosyphon is revolutionizing wind turbine cooling
FIGURE 1: 75kW Loop Thermosyphon mounted on top of a wind turbine nacelle. The Loop Thermosyphon operates using natural convection and phase change, transferring heat without any moving parts.
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Two more wind turbines suffer damage in Canada and Norway
Two more turbines damaged in recent days, with the hub and blades falling off a turbine in Canada and a blade disintegrating at a wind farm in Norway.