{"id":364458,"date":"2025-02-04T09:40:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T08:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=364458"},"modified":"2025-02-04T09:40:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T08:40:33","slug":"wind-turbine-bursts-into-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=364458","title":{"rendered":"Wind Turbine Bursts into Flames"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Will Jones<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A wind turbine has burst into flames in Cambridgeshire \u2013 the latest instance of an issue previously described by Imperial College London as a \u201cbig problem\u201d that is not being \u201cfully reported\u201d. The Telegraph <\/em>has the story<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Emergency services were called to Coldham Windfarm in the Fens at around 10am on Sunday as black smoke was seen billowing from one of the eight turbines.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service said: \u201cAt around 10am on Sunday crews from March and Stanground were called to a fire on March Road in Coldham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFirefighters arrived to find a well-developed fire involving a wind turbine. Working with staff on site they made the area safe and allowed the fire to burn out safely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe crews left the scene by around 1pm and made regular inspections throughout the day to make sure the area remained safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey will make further inspections this evening and will fully establish the cause of the fire.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wind turbine fires<\/a> are believed to be rare, although accurate statistics are not widely available and there have been several incidents recorded in the UK over the past few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The turbines contain some highly flammable materials \u2013 such as oil and plastics \u2013 that are close to electrical wires. If the machinery is faulty and a spark is ignited, flames can quickly take hold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A turbine in Chulmleigh, Devon, had its engine destroyed by flames in September 2024, while a turbine at Scroby Sands off the coast of Norfolk burnt until the fire self-extinguished in August 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Hull, a fire scattered charred debris on the ground near a chemical plant with residents worried that the turbine might have collapsed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The turbines, which are designed to catch the wind, are exposed to the same flow of oxygen that fuels fire and there are more than 11,000 of them in the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A study by Imperial College London from 2014 described wind turbine fires as a \u201cbig problem\u201d that was not being \u201cfully reported\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Researchers estimated there to be a global average of 11.7 fires each year among the 200,000 wind turbines in existence at the time. That figure has now risen to 341,000, according to the Global Wind Energy Council.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Worth reading in full<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A wind turbine has burst into flames in Cambridgeshire \u2013 the latest instance of an issue previously described by Imperial College London as a \u201cbig problem\u201d that is not being \u201cfully reported\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":364459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691833030,691830699,691818181,691818180,691818322],"class_list":{"0":"post-364458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-cambridgeshire","9":"tag-firefighters","10":"tag-renewable-energy","11":"tag-wind-farms","12":"tag-wind-turbines","14":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/0Screenshot-2025-02-03-104507.png?fit=1182%2C703&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1wOm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":244374,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=244374","url_meta":{"origin":364458,"position":0},"title":"Catastrophic Failures: 300 Tonne Wind Turbines Keep On Collapsing in Terrifying Fashion","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"19\/02\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Gravity is not kind to these 300-tonne monsters; hundreds of them have collapsed around the world and the rate of collapses appears to be increasing, over time.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-453.png?fit=1115%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-453.png?fit=1115%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-453.png?fit=1115%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-453.png?fit=1115%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-453.png?fit=1115%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":267877,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=267877","url_meta":{"origin":364458,"position":1},"title":"Pyrotechnic Pandemonium: Wind Turbines Can\u2019t Help Exploding In Toxic\u00a0Fireballs","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"17\/07\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Wind turbines love exploding into toxic fireballs that firefighters don\u2019t even bother putting out. 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