Cannibal Alert: Wind Turbine Eats Itself Up!

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
by George Appiah

Apparently the braking mechanism that limits the speed of this 200-foot tall wind turbine broke during a storm in Denmark, and the turbine kept speeding and speeding and eventually shearing itself to into pieces. Click the arrow to play the video below.

What’s really interesting to me here is just how low-cost video capture devices and the Internet are bringing the world closer than ever. I certainly could not have imagined seeing something like this in video — while sitting here in my apartment in the sunny city of Accra, Ghana.

Here’s a related article from a Danish website (in English): Minister demands explanation for windmill collapse