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  • 150mph is not a 'normal feature of Scottish weather'.

    Top gust in this storm was 165mph, previous high was only ~15 years ago at >170mph. In terms of the design life of wind farms, I'd call that a normal feature.

    If I were trying to set fire to a turbine without physical access to the head, I'd send Stuxnet into the controller and get it to brake the shaft before feathering the blades. I'm going to assume that the standard controller has an interlock to prevent this, since it would be a good way of generating a lot of heat in the turbine head. If there is a bug in the software or the shut down sequence is manually controlled and somebody fucked up, I'm sure a fire would be a likely outcome.

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