Broken Turbine Blade Near Cheyenne

Do we have a sagging wind turbine blade near Cheyenne, Wyoming?

Several things could cause a break like this.

The Facebook page Wywindhere is a group of concerned citizens in the area that keep an eye on local wind turbines and post the problems that they see.

This photo was taken on the way to Cheyenne yesterday at a project that's only been up for a year and a half in the newest section of development near the Walmart distribution center.

According to Wind Watch, about 70% of the smaller variety of turbines are recalled due to failures.

It's simply unsustainable and not to mention dangerous for our Wyoming wildlife. (Wywindhere).

Reasons for broken wind turbine blades include fatigue damage from wind, lightning strikes, blade edge erosion, and icing.

There is certainly enough of all of that in Wyoming.

The Wywindhere Facebook page is not exactly friendly towards wind turbines.

They point out numerous problems including bird and bat deaths.

Another Facebook site, Albany County WY For Smark Energy Development posted the following.

Vast acreage is needed which negatively affects local wildlife.

A lot of space is taken up on the page pointing out how toxic it is to create these things and the environmental problems created when removing them.

Wind turbine farms never produce anywhere near the energy promised, and what is created is unreliable and intermittent, says the Wywindhere site.

They have also included news articles and videos showing how wind farms go out of business as soon as the subsidies run out.

Local utility rates do not decrease with wind farms but increase.

“Wind turbines cause earth temperature increases at the earths surface” so much for assisting in the fight against global warming.

Wake up Wyoming we are already high desert.

Push your Govenor, Industrial Siting, County Commissioners to say NO to out of state and out of country companies before there is no more Wyoming, no more wildlife, no more eastern section of the Rocky Mountains left!

But the site is not all one point of view.

Detractors and supporters of wind farms often post counterarguments on the page where the debate rages.

Nantucket residents voice concerns as more turbine debris washes ashore.