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Windfarm closed until cause of collapsed turbine is found
2015-01-05 15:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A wind farm in Northern Ireland will not re-open until an investigation reveals why an 80-metre wind turbine collapsed on a mountainside. The only previous time that one of the UKs almost 4,800 commercial-scale turbines has toppled was in 2007 in Scotland. No-one was injured in either case. The turbine which collapsed on Friday evening, in winds of about 25mph, was one of eight in the Screggagh windfarm near Fintona in County Tyrone. The remaining seven have been shut down until the investigation...
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Category:Electronics and Electrical