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The windturbine that started spinning wildly on May 3 disintegrated two or three days later, according to the California Highway Patrol.
All that is left now is a turbine-less twisted tower.
The CHP closed Highway 58 for hours after it was notified that the turbine was spinning out of control on Sunday. The closure snarled traffic in the area.
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Wild windmill shuts down part of Highway 58 indefinitely
May 4, 2009 by Sabrina Rodriguez in Eyewitness News TV 58
May 4, 2009 by Sabrina Rodriguez in Eyewitness News TV 58
A faulty windmill near Tehachapi shuts down all lanes of Highway 58 between highways 202 and 14; and CHP Officers say it could be days before the roadway re-opens.
Mojave CHP got the call about the out-of-control windmill located in the Tehachapi Wind Farm a little after 1:20 Sunday afternoon.
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A runaway windmill in Tehachapi closed Highway 58 -- a major east-west freeway connecting California's southern Central Valley to Las Vegas, Nevada and Arizona -- for most of the day Sunday.
As of 6:45 p.m., the highway remained closed between Tehachapi and Mojave. Officials had no estimate as to when it might reopen
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It could be a major safety hazard, windmills near the 1-10 in North Palm Springs crashing down to the ground. It happened yesterday, and now there's an investigation as to why the wind turbine, nearly 200 feet fell.
"It went into overspeed, some sort of maintainence or some sort of malfunction," said Jeff Welton of the Palm Springs based Wintec Energy.
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This news report was submitted to Windaction.org by Scott Jackson, a reseller of Redriven windmills. Mr. Jackson is seeking to get the Redriven turbine de-certified in the State of California for safety reasons.
Windmill repair update; A city investigation continues
January 29, 2009 by Jackie Devereaux in Desert Valley Star
January 29, 2009 by Jackie Devereaux in Desert Valley Star
City officials continue to investigate and keep tabs on how a Florida power company is meeting requirements for repairing their damaged and malfunctioning windmills here. ...FPL/NER owns and operates approximately 60 wind turbines in question. It's astonishing that there is a reported 40 percent that are malfunctioning, in disrepair, or need maintenance.
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The fire was caused by burning debris from a wind turbine that caught fire due to a malfunction.
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