Re: Storm and wind turbines.

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:25:55 -0000, "Enzo Matrix" <enzo55@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Richard Brooks wrote:
Watching the local news the reported said that if the wind speed
increased too much, the wind turbine would shut down.

It doesn't shut down in the way you are thinking. The blades do not come to
a halt. That would provide too much stress on the blade mountings. The
turbine is simply disconnected from the generator

So when I (regularly) see one or two out of a large group of wind
turbines not turning on a windy day when all the rest are spinning
quite quickly then the blades haven't really come to a halt and any
lack of rotation is purely a figment of my imagination?


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