"The recent tornado did in fact lift a wind tower blade off the ground and onto a nearby building that housed a child care center and health care training classes. The blade was not attached to a turbine. The 147-foot blade once laid end to end about 75 feet from the building. Steel straps bound the 16,000-pound blade to massive concrete structures. Nevertheless, the tornado lifted and turned the blade and rested it against the building. The blade was a training tool used in the school’s wind energy training program, which launched in 2010. The program supplies trained technicians for state wind farms. Graduates earn 13 industry certifications within a four-week period and earn an average of $18 per hour when placed at wind farms as Level 1 wind technicians. The program features two training towers on campus. An 85-foot tower does not have blades, and another 126-foot tower has blades. Both structures survived a direct hit from the storm and are intact."
Posted on: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 18:35:04 +0000
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