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An investigation suggests an explosion and fire inside a Nebraska wind turbine was caused by a "foreign object". ...the "object" blew into the turbine causing the blast.
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SPRINGVIEW, Neb. - In this ranching village near the South Dakota border, there's a Turbine Avenue and a Turbine Mart convenience store and the annual Wind Turbine Days festival.
But soon the two wind turbines that inspired those names - the first in Nebraska when they were erected in 1998 - may be coming down.
Frequent breakdowns and increasingly expensive repairs are dooming the graceful structures.
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