Real Life Animal Farm

In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, a central part of the story involves the politics surrounding a windmill collapse during a storm.

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Wind turbine destroyed by wind – Telegraph

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9 Responses to Real Life Animal Farm

  1. tom0mason says:

    The same person that brought the UK “mad cow disease” is now in charge of building wind-farms – John Selwyn Gummer aka Baron Deben. What could possibly go wrong?

  2. juergenuie says:

    Not the first one and for sure not the last one.

    2 December 2009 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1232540/School-wind-turbine-collapses-crushes-contractors-van.html

    27 MAY 2013 in Ireland http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/collapsed-wind-turbine-sent-to-the-scrapheap-29298359.html

    Wind (nature) can be devastating and they build these turbines in places where the wind is strong. This means that some will collapse over time.

  3. gator69 says:

    Real life ‘Animal Farm’? That would be Obama et al. Standing on their hind legs in the White House.

  4. mwhite says:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01g4d88

    All day Thursday 5th September 5 live will explore and debate the future of energy in the UK

  5. Stephen Richards says:

    I believe this happened some time ago. The school, which I think is a primary school, paid some £40,000 to have a windmill erected to demonstrate to the children that their parents could save the planet. Within a short time one of the blades broke up and crashed into the playground during what I think was the weekend. This started the concern along with the fact that it wasn’t actually giving the return on investment they had be promised. A few months later the whole thing broke up and fell. The headmaster then decided to have it removed.

  6. John B., M.D. says:

    So, falling turbine blades killing children is O.K., as is blowing them up 10:10 style?

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