Remember all those stories about wind turbines lasting for 25 years – without so much as the need for an oil-change – and being “safe as houses”?

Well, as STT followers well-know those ‘stories’ are unraveling at a rocketing rate – with giant fans collapsing in crumpled heaps;spontaneously combusting; and throwing blades to the four-winds – all over the world.

We’ve just about covered the Globe now, with “events” from Ireland (see our posts here and here); Scotland (see our posts here and here); Devon (see our post here); Nicaragua (see our post here)  – Brazil – Kansas –Pennsylvania – Germany and Scotland – where turbines have been going berserk like Viking Warriors.

Now – if you’re nowhere near these things, you’re probably finding these events a bit boring and our posts a little repetitive?

But – if you’re within a bulls’ roar of these pyrotechnic-50m-blade-chuckers – your anxiety and blood-pressure levels could be excused for being a little on the high side.

However, we figure that we’re bound to keep them coming – forewarned is forearmed.

So here’s another about a turbine going “berserk” – this time, in Denmark.

Blades fly off runaway wind turbine
The Local Denmark
16 January 2015

The blades and gearbox have been spun off a wind turbine in western Jutland after a malfunction allowed it to reach to dangerous speeds in high winds.

“There was a loud bang and then one of the blades span off, and shortly afterwards the the gearbox’s housing fell to the ground,” Henrik Nielsen, one of the officials at the scene, told Denmark’s TV Midvest. “The wings splintered, and fragments and smoke reached as far as 35 meters away from the turbine.”

No one was hurt due to a 100m safety zone which local police had enforced around the turbine ever since it first ran out of control on Thursday afternoon. Several turbine maintenance specialists had tried to bring the turbine under control, but in the end judged it too dangerous to approach.

“We cannot get close to it until the wind dies down,” Oluf Jakobsen, from the local Morsø municipality explained on Friday morning. “There’s nothing we can do but sit and wait for the outcome.”
The Local Denmark

Little wonder then that the wind industry in Denmark has decided to bring in the bulldozers to flatten homes and whole villages (see our post here).

Creating vast-vacuums, devoid of all human life will, no doubt, help with their escalating public liability insurance premiums.