Was out at Whitelees with Fiona on Saturday morning.
On the way in we noticed that none of the turbines were spinning with any great speed. Most were stopped but a couple were turning lazily in the wind. We initially thought that the wind speed was simply too low to spin the blades but re visited that decision when we turned to cycle into the wind. We did notice a turbine with only 2 blades and wondered if that had something to do with it.
I mentioned it to a few guys once I got back into the office and it turns out that the turbine shed a blade at about 0200 on Saturday morning, about 10 hours before we got there. The entire site was shut down while they investigated the cause. At least that makes sense, by the time we had finished cycling we could see staff working on the turbine nearest the damaged one.
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