I believe this is one of those having your cake & eating your cake scenarios.

Wind turbines are designed to be aerodynamically loaded on purpose. The blades can pitch arbitrarily to compensate for unwanted loads in the axial flow direction, but beyond a certain point it doesn't matter anymore because wind can do a lot of other things.

Can we?

https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/tarrant-county/the-t...

> Before March 28, 2000, a tornado had never collided with a skyscraper.

> Bank One Tower sat, rotting. The Fort Worth Fire Department declared the building a fire hazard, forcing the Bass family to replace the plywood planks with fireproof metal.