Wind Generator fails.

test-to-destruction?

J.

I think it had suffered a failure of the blade feathering mechanism and in the high winds, failure was more or less inevitable.

Tim

WE can but hope..

Of course what will become of the offshore ones when the sea level rises due to global warming?

Or the latest hurricane sweeps across the North Sea..

Nuclear and coal fired plants fail

Only because the entire system is nearing the end of its useful life and needs to be replaced. IMO the only viable option for that is nuclear power.

Colin Bignell

fire, allegedly due to a bearing failure.

Hopefully Nissan don't use the same type of bearings in their cars; mine's now just over a year old, with no bearing fires (yet)...

Oh dynamo dave is back

Yes, but at least they are inside industrial premises where their failure is less of a danger to the general public, and where they can be fixed by trained staff in a secure environment.

How many windmills have lasted 50 years without total rebuilds?

Indeed. But dynamo dave is in windpower. As are many others. Turkeys dont vote for christmas.

A real misnomer, I feel. He'd probably be happier without any electricity.

How about "Amish Dave"?

No, he would lose his job..

On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:11:12 +0000 someone who may be "Nightjar wrote this:-

The nuclear power station concerned started generating in 1995.

On 10 Mar 2010 01:29:06 GMT someone who may be Bob Eager wrote this:-

Excellent personal attacks. Usually resorted to by those without better arguments, as demonstrated here.

If you feel the need to continue to make fools of yourselves then continue as you are.

Our MPs are clueless it seems to me, so tied up in their own dogma they seem incapable of making rational reasoned judgements. The best thing they could do is to copy whatever the French do, they seem to be ahead of the game in energy terms, and they seem to care about their own people. They put the French first. Don

Well, so do our MPs (via Europe) - load of arse-licking crooks.

And didn't fail catasrophically.

MBQ

An instrument failed, so it did a controlled shutdown. This is known as s-a-f-e-t-y.

If they hadn't been running the whole grid right on the edge that would have been that. No news at all.

Andy

They really needed to have got going on a rolling replacement for the nuclear sites instead of farting about for the last 10 years.