Fire, Fire, your windmill is on fire!!!!
Giant industrial wind turbines habitually explode into terrifying fireballs, spewing toxic smoke and raining tonnes of flaming plastics and molten metals earthward.
In winter it probably provides locals with a kind of amusing pyrotechnic distraction. However, in the height of summer, with the country a tinderbox and fuel loads at their peak, not so much.
No, bushfires (as Australians call them) or wildfires (as our North American cousins dub them) are no laughing matter. A single spark can turn the countryside into a raging inferno, destroying homes, sheds, machinery and fences, and killing native animals, livestock, and people, alike.
Australia’s wind industry has managed to kick off 2023 with a run of turbine self-immolations, generating a whole bunch of unnecessary risk.
The first we reported on here: Blaze of Glory: Life-Threatening Wind Turbine Fires Way More Common Than People Think, when a turbine self-ignited, spraying flaming oil and plastics…
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