Challenges Associated With Transporting Large Wind Turbine Parts
The New York Times published an article on July 22, 2009 by Kate Galbraith titled Slow, Costly and Often Dangerous Road to Wind Power that provides some thought provoking details on the difficulty associated with moving 50 yard long turbine blades, tower sections, and the large nacelles that house reduction gears, generators and control systems through small towns all around America.
Here is a sample quote:
As demand for clean energy grows, towns around the country are finding their traffic patterns roiled as convoys carrying disassembled towers that will reach more than 250 feet in height, as well as motors, blades and other parts roll through. Escorted by patrol cars and gawked at by pedestrians, the equipment must often travel hundreds of miles from ports or factories to the remote, windy destinations where the turbines are erected.
