Friday 13 February 2009

Lincolnshire-UFO-Turbine-Mystery-Solved



Broken wind turbine mystery solved

Speculation over what caused the mysterious destruction of a giant wind turbine in northern England - with everything from UFOs to the freezing winter weather taking the blame - was put to rest, after the culprit was found to be a mundane broken bolt.
Residents of Conisholme in Lincolnshire, last month, discovered that a 21.9-metre long metal blade was torn off a turbine at their local wind farm while another was badly damaged.

Some even reported seeing strange lights streaking towards the wind farm, prompting conjecture of a UFO collision with one of the 213-foot tall turbines.
It was unclear exactly when the crash would have occurred.
Local councillor and turkey farmer Robert Palmer said he saw a bright white light with an orange edge as he drove close to the turbine on Sunday morning .
The turbine manufacturer Enercon, however published preliminary results of its investigation on Tuesday saying that a broken bolt was responsible for the mishap.
The firm said that the bolts securing the blade to the turbine's hub "exhibited classic signs of fatigue failure".

It added that though the bolts themselves had shown no flaws, it appears that a component part on either side had "induced stress in the bolts beyond their design limits".

The Guardian newspaper on its part claimed to have solved a part of the mystery, revealing that the "strange lights" had almost certainly been caused by a firework display hosted by the parents of Emily Bell, the paper's director of digital content.

Dale Vince, Ecotricity's managing director, had earlier told the BBC that the UFO theory was "the best ... that we have currently got", though he added that a cow-sized piece of ice, perhaps falling from a passing plane, can also be responsible.
Vince now admitted that the Enercon report, was "a bit disappointing", though he defended his stand to consider the possibility of alien involvement.

"Personally I believe in life from other galaxies, and a lot of people do. I can say, however, at this stage we have eliminated collision and therefore aliens," he said.
Despite the revelation Vince is not quite ready to accept that the mystery was definitively solved.

"I still don't think the fireworks explained the flashing lights ... they don't tend to hang around in the way these lights are said to have done. There was no scorching, nothing burned or melted, so the lights, whatever they were, were certainly not associated with the turbine failure," he added.

B-And-Q-3-Rolls-Of-Loft-Insulation-For-£3-Offer



B&Q are offering 3 rolls of loft insulation for £3.00.

The TV advert is currently running on UK Digital TV and as of 00:04 13th February 2009 the http://www.diy.com B&Q DIY website is down (Crashed)

I would suggest that anyone wanting lost insulation for any pending or future projects get themselves to a B&Q store near you tomorrow and take them up on this great offer.

British Gas have been able to do a deal with the UK government and secure the deal to anyone in the UK.

The scheme is backed by the Government's Carbon Emissions Reduction Target (CERT) scheme and is meant only for the general public.

More tomorrow on this offer.

Loft insulation can be used for a number of homebrew type projects including Solar hot water panels, Wall insulation, Loft insulation, Boarding out lofts, heat proofing wood stoves and much more.

I believe they have limited the offer to 15 rolls per person, the loft insulation comes in a three 3 pack with perforations so you are actually paying £3.00 per pack.

Thursday 12 February 2009

Siemens-Protos-Plant-Oil-Stove-Update-Video-February-2009

Here is the latest video on the Siemens Protos Plant Oil Stove.

The Protos plant oil stove is a cooker / burner capable of running on Veg Oil, WVO, Peanut Oil, Coconut Oil and many other vegetable oils.

They are currently been produced in developing countries to enable poverty stricken countries a way of cooking and running businesses without using wood or charcoal as their primary heating source.

I hope that the Protos plant oil stove will become available within Europe / UK so the technology can be adapted into central heating systems and CHP / CHAP & MCHP systems.

Only time will tell.



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