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  2. Energy accidents - Wikipedia

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    Energy fatalities can occur, and with many systems deaths will happen often, even when the systems are working as intended. Historically, coal mining has been the most dangerous energy activity and the list of historical coal mining disasters is a long one. Underground mining hazards include suffocation, gas poisoning, roof collapse and gas ...

  3. Scroby Sands: Investigation into wind turbine fire 'may take ...

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    The company that owns Scroby Sands wind farm says a team has been removing fire debris at low tide. Scroby Sands: Investigation into wind turbine fire 'may take weeks' Skip to main content

  4. Wind farm workers evacuated after offshore turbine catches fire

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    Workers at a wind farm in Norfolk were evacuated on Tuesday morning after an offshore turbine caught fire, sending plumes of thick black smoke billowing into the sky.. Part of a wind turbine at ...

  5. Man crushed to death by falling fan blade at Australian wind farm

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    The Golden Plains Wind Farm aims to produce nine per cent of Victoria’s energy and is expected to be completed by 2027. Helicopter footage from Monday showed three turbines on the ground, with ...

  6. Hornslet wind-turbine collapse - Wikipedia

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    The wind turbine was a Nordtank NTK 600-180/43 with a maximum generation capacity of 600 kW at Hornslet, Denmark at It was operated by Syddjurs and inaugurated on 23 December 1996. The rotor of this turbine, which carried in the Danish wind turbine register the designation 570715000000021503, had a diameter of 43 metres.

  7. Wind turbine - Wikipedia

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    A wind turbine is a device that converts the kinetic energy of ... Wind farms and nuclear power plants are responsible for between 0.3 and 0.4 bird deaths per ...

  8. Wind turbine malfunctions, causes field fire in Iowa - AOL

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    Wind turbine malfunctions, causes field fire in Iowa. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Mail. Sign in ...

  9. Sayano-Shushenskaya power station accident - Wikipedia

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    Since the load for other turbines ceased after the collapse of the turbine 2, they probably started to spin without load at increasing speed until they failed. [13] He said that the former director of Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station, Valentin Bryzgalov, had alerted that it is dangerous to operate the plant at its maximum loads ...