Giant Wind Turbines Keep Mysteriously Falling Over. This Shouldn't Be Happening.

• Turbine failures are on the uptick across the world, sometimes with blades falling off or even full turbine collapses.

• A recent report says production issues may be to blame for the mysterious increase in failures.

• Turbines are growing larger as quality control plans get smaller.

The taller the wind turbine, the harder they fall. And they sure are falling.

Wind turbine failures are on the uptick, from Oklahoma to Sweden and Colorado to Germany, with all three of the major manufacturers admitting that the race to create bigger turbines has invited manufacturing issues, according to a report from Bloomberg.

Multiple turbines that are taller than 750 feet are collapsing across the world, with the tallest—784 feet in stature—falling in Germany in September 2021. To put it in perspective, those turbines are taller than both the Space Needle in Seattle and the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C. Even smaller turbines that recently took a tumble in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Wales, and Colorado were about the height of the Statue of Liberty.