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Fire in the Sky – Wind Towers and Bush Fire Risk
About 20 turbines catch fire and burn each year. The global total number of turbines appears to be around 68,000. These figures from the web provide a rough guide to quantifying the bushfire risk. Applying the global data to the 2,000 or so turbines installed in Australia we would expect a 60% probability of one turbine fire each year.
If there is a known risk of wind generator fire then the generators must be disabled well before conditions reach critical being a Grassland fire danger Index above 50 or a Forest Fire danger Index above 6.
Full report here: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/fire-in-the-sky.pdf [PDF, 37 KB]
David Packham
School of Geography and Environmental Sciences
Monash University
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