{"id":28652,"date":"2014-03-25T17:06:19","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T21:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/static\/?p=28652"},"modified":"2014-03-25T17:06:20","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T21:06:20","slug":"mighty-mouse-knocks-out-wind-turbine-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2014\/mighty-mouse-knocks-out-wind-turbine-minnesota\/","title":{"rendered":"“Mighty Mouse” Knocks Out Wind Turbine! (Minnesota)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\u201cMouse fire in Enxco\u2019s Chanarambie wind turbine\u201d (Minnesota)<\/p>\n

\u2014 Eagle Siting, baldeaglesitings.blogspot.com<\/a> (3\/24\/14)<\/p>\n

Enxco filed an \u201cextraordinary event\u201d report with the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission today. \u00a0Mice got into the electrical equipment, caused an electrical arc and lit the turbine on fire. \u00a0Mice happen; they get into places we would rather they did not. \u00a0It is interesting to know a mouse can take out a giant industrial turbine. \u00a0However, consistent with almost all turbine disaster reports, the wind project managers found out about the problem when a local resident called them.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt approximately 9:00 AM on December 2, 2013 a local farmer notified the Operations Manager that smoke was observed coming from the access door and the nacelle on turbine #35.\u201d<\/p>\n

Citizens with wind company experience know that developers constantly poo-poo any concerns about safety issues. \u00a0The consistent, and obviously misleading, marketing message is that \u201cany time there is ANY operational problem, the SCADA system will automatically shut down the turbine operation and notify the managers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet, reports of turbine fire, noisy mechanical malfunction, \u201cuncontrolled operation,\u201d and \u201ccomponent liberation,\u201d repeatedly state that the wind company found out about the wreck because a citizen called them. In other cases, the turbine maintenance staff \u201cfound the turbine lying on the ground\u201d when they came to work in the morning.<\/p>\n

No automatic shut down. No notice from the supposed turbine monitoring system to the company.<\/p>\n

Why is that?<\/p>\n

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. \u201cMouse fire in Enxco\u2019s Chanarambie wind turbine\u201d (Minnesota) \u2014 Eagle Siting, baldeaglesitings.blogspot.com (3\/24\/14) Enxco filed an \u201cextraordinary event\u201d report with the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission today. \u00a0Mice got into the electrical equipment, caused an electrical arc and lit the turbine on fire. \u00a0Mice happen; they get into places we would rather they did not. \u00a0It is interesting to know a mouse can take out a giant industrial turbine. \u00a0However, consistent with almost all turbine disaster reports, the wind project managers found out about the problem when a local resident called them. \u201cAt approximately 9:00 AM on December 2, 2013 a local farmer notified the Operations Manager that smoke was observed coming from the access door and the nacelle on turbine #35.\u201d Citizens with wind company experience know that developers constantly poo-poo any concerns about safety issues. \u00a0The consistent, and obviously misleading, marketing message is that \u201cany time there is ANY operational problem, the SCADA system will automatically shut down the turbine operation and notify the managers.\u201d Yet, reports of turbine fire, noisy mechanical malfunction, \u201cuncontrolled operation,\u201d and \u201ccomponent liberation,\u201d repeatedly state that the wind company found out about the wreck because a citizen called them. In other cases, the turbine maintenance staff \u201cfound the turbine lying on the ground\u201d when they came to work in the morning. No automatic shut down. No notice from the supposed turbine monitoring system to the company. Why is that?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[157,16,173],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}