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Danish wind turbine eats itself

Posted February 26, 2008 8:46 AM

From Engadget:

You know how we love wind turbines around here, but we love carnage even more -- so we can't get enough of this 200-foot tall Danish wind turbine shearing itself to bits after its brakes failed during a recent storm. The 10-year old windmill is the one of two different Vestas windmills to fail in Denmark in the past week -- the company is launching an investigation, but might we suggest selling tickets instead?

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02/27/2008 6:45 AM

Oh yeah!

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02/27/2008 6:24 PM

Yahoo! I've just been on youtube and watched a slowmo! Shocking!

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Sweet!
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