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Sun Feb 14 18:04:19 EST 2021
Heard on the radio:frozen wind turbines
Not a failure mode I'd considered before.
I guess there's also going to be winter jobs sweeping snow off of solar panels. Maybe on building roofs. (Rooves?)
Saturday 22:58
Subsequent coverage has mentioned that windmills are winterized in regions that expect the cold; Texas didn't. (Didn't expect; didn't winterize.) If unbalanced ice loads build up on the blades that can still take units out of service.
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Heard on the radio:frozen wind turbines
Not a failure mode I'd considered before.
I guess there's also going to be winter jobs sweeping snow off of solar panels. Maybe on building roofs. (Rooves?)
Saturday 22:58
Subsequent coverage has mentioned that windmills are winterized in regions that expect the cold; Texas didn't. (Didn't expect; didn't winterize.) If unbalanced ice loads build up on the blades that can still take units out of service.
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/1206533.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]