Attack of the killer windmills
We all know that windmills kill birds. Now even some homes are not safe:
Ice-Tossing Turbines: Myth or Hazard?By KATE GALBRAITH, New York Times
How do wind turbines fare in winter weather?
Not so well, according to one little town in England. The Wisbech Standard reports a harrowing tale in which "lumps of ice three or four feet long flew through the air" and smashed into a carpet showroom and a parking lot.
They apparently came off the spinning blades of a 410-foot-tall wind turbine.
[...] a 2006 publication by G.E. Energy, a maker of large wind turbines, warns that "rotating turbine blades may propel ice fragments some distance from the turbine -- up to several hundred meters if conditions are right."