I replaced dozens of blade pitch proportioning valves in those turbines back in the day. And hundreds of gallons of hydraulic oil and zillions of O-rings. The first turbines I worked on that had man lifts in them, previously everything I climbed was just a ladder. Sorry to see them go.
I do wind turbine blade demolition in the San Francisco area but never a whole tower. I know that a lot of the shorter towers were removed so they could get the wind from higher up. These look more modern. Why don't they reuse the tower and put all new components on them?
I see that the cutting charges were positioned in relation to the wind. So you made a cut on about half of the circumference of the base, toward the wind. And then just wait for the wind ( and gravity ) to work for you. Nice
@@mikefrech1123 plenty have been demolished, but they generally have a much longer service life than wind turbines and produce far greater amounts of energy in that lifespan. The turbines in the Ocotillo desert in Southern California have reached the end of their usability and are less than 20 years old.
You evidently share a lpt of people's sentiment. Vile things. A massive knee jerk reaction to eliminating fossil fuels. They don't tell you how many thousands tonnes of concrete go into the bases. Now if I am correct concrete is in top 5 polution of our planet. Blow them all up. Wind turbine syndrome..... Apparently all in our heads???? A bit like Doctors promoting cigarettes in the 50s. Its a joke.
As someone who has built them, they are modular. The tower is 3 to 5 sections depending on the height and model. The nacelle, hub and 3 blades are all independent pieces as well. It would also take days to disassemble things down to replace a nacelle or tower section. Then another week or two to recommission all the components. Doable? Yes. Efficient? Not when you can replace the entire thing and recycle the old one.
Just think of all the oil burned in making the hundreds of yards of concrete, the fuel burned by the heavy equipment to dig the foundation, the crane transport to the site, and all the support vehicles. The steel, the rebar and tower, all that steel had to be manufactured, transported, fabricated, and then transported again to the job site. The blades.....lots of toxic epoxy, which takes a lot of electric ovens to cure, plus the fibreglas production, transportation etc. All these various steps, not to mention all of the personal transportation requirements of the hundreds or thousands of workers required, required a lot of old school oil in one way or another. The gen pub just sees the finished product and goes "oh, free energy."
They only have a life span of 20 years or so. I just recently learned this. When they first started talking about turbines back in the '80s and '90s, no ever discussed their longevity.
Lifespan is over. In the last decade those machines were made much more effective, so it's a simple calculation with the result it's better to invest in more powerful ones in the same spot than to maintain the old ones.
It costs more to purchase and maintain an intermittent source of energy than the money these ugly behemoths can produce. They can never generate enough intermittent power to pay for themselves... unless you count the subsidies the energy companies get thanks to our bank accounts.
These are the biggest waste ! All this stuff goes into landfills nothing is recycled except the copper something! Why can’t they reuse the base tower and the generator housing ,and or the generator itself? But they don’t ! This is not green in any matter !
Blades and nacelle canopy go into landfill, the rest is recycled. Shame to see this demolished, if disassembled properly most parts can be refurbished. But guess the owner did not want to spend the money on crane rent and heavy transport.
Wonderful to see them go - they should never have been built in the first place. But it hasn't touched the giant slabs of underground concrete that supported them. What will happen to the concrete?
I would like to see that too. I wonder if they're too far apart to to get a good wide angle of all of them. They possibly could be scattered around the land not all next to each other.
The service lifetime probably coincides with the end of Depreciation Tax Deduction allowances, the end of other assorted subsidies ponied up by the taxpayers, etc.
@@t5ruxlee210 ha, was wating for the first anti-wind comment. Are you saying that the fuel cost (free) now out weighs the electricity wholesale price? Those 21 turbines would have been selling $5 to $10 million dollars of electricity per year. At $70 / MWh. Look up a table of generation costs of different sources.
Well it's was a good start, but looks like you have plenty left to go. When you finish, we got a bunch a the gd things here in PA you can take care of.
Horrible things, a blight on landscape and devastating to people and animals living close by. Let's all turn lights off that we aren't using, turn off appliances on stand by mode 24 /7. Every little helps.
I thought wind turbines were good for a 100 years as the internals could be swapped out easily as they got worn..at least that was what we were sold. The greenest energy on the planet.....
Its farcical. The rare minerals needed for the magnets inside the gearbox housing are causing worldwide destruction of the lands where this mineral is found. Its heartbreaking to see barren earth. People are starving because of the "green greed"
Sofar for green energy....blasting turbines for sure is not green at all. They could have at least tried to reuse the structure of the tower and replace the turbine. Now you are left with a conrete base in the ground...This is a realy bad example of non reusability of existing "green" infrastructure. I am not even speaking of all the debris flying around, how many of that fine debris will not be removed by a cleanup?
Wind Turbines suck. They are unreliable and expensive. Their lifespan tend to be less than 10 years. What a waste of money although they do make good things to blowup.
😅😂🤣Hopefully many more to come in the future. The investors who bribe lawmakers for taxpayer payouts to build these things would be wise to invest in other LLCs to dismantle these. Win-win for them, lose-lose for taxpayers.
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Talk about breaking wind!
What happens to the 2000 tons of concrete and steel under the ground that hold these towers up?
I replaced dozens of blade pitch proportioning valves in those turbines back in the day. And hundreds of gallons of hydraulic oil and zillions of O-rings. The first turbines I worked on that had man lifts in them, previously everything I climbed was just a ladder. Sorry to see them go.
About how old do you suppose these are?
Do you know why they are being demolished?
I do wind turbine blade demolition in the San Francisco area but never a whole tower. I know that a lot of the shorter towers were removed so they could get the wind from higher up. These look more modern. Why don't they reuse the tower and put all new components on them?
Revenge of the birds! :) Great controlled demolition as usual CDI.
Why were these particular wind turbines removed and what happens to the parts afterwards?
Nuclear's looking better as a power source. Sierra Club approved.
And that's the way we save the planet! Very green!
Off to the landfill they go!
21? That common core math?
Sounds like good pre-felling work and subsequent mobilization and felling. Great work!
I see that the cutting charges were positioned in relation to the wind. So you made a cut on about half of the circumference of the base, toward the wind. And then just wait for the wind ( and gravity ) to work for you. Nice
So , the renewable energy needs renewing , looks like an expensive alternative.
It's the goddamn sounds! I just want to hear them live if they sound this amazing even from a phone!!
You should hear it on a home theater with 2 HSU VTF-15H MK2 Subwoofers. It shakes the entire house.
21 huh? Guess I can't count!
Great work. Awesome!
Ahhh, green energy at its finest!
No fossil fuel or nuclear powered generators have ever been demolished. Right?
@@mikefrech1123 maybe you should upload a video of all those demolitions... it would be great porn for greenies
@@mikefrech1123 Yes.... After decades! These are only 10- 20 yo
And hard to recycle ....
@@mikefrech1123 plenty have been demolished, but they generally have a much longer service life than wind turbines and produce far greater amounts of energy in that lifespan. The turbines in the Ocotillo desert in Southern California have reached the end of their usability and are less than 20 years old.
Need to clear the land for more oil exploration.
Yep, since oil is infinite and we will never run out. /s
Excellent!! Thousands more to go!
You evidently share a lpt of people's sentiment. Vile things. A massive knee jerk reaction to eliminating fossil fuels. They don't tell you how many thousands tonnes of concrete go into the bases. Now if I am correct concrete is in top 5 polution of our planet. Blow them all up. Wind turbine syndrome..... Apparently all in our heads???? A bit like Doctors promoting cigarettes in the 50s. Its a joke.
We’ve got to think of a better way to reuse these turbines. We must make them modular so we don’t have to keep blowing them up.
As someone who has built them, they are modular. The tower is 3 to 5 sections depending on the height and model. The nacelle, hub and 3 blades are all independent pieces as well. It would also take days to disassemble things down to replace a nacelle or tower section. Then another week or two to recommission all the components. Doable? Yes. Efficient? Not when you can replace the entire thing and recycle the old one.
Very brilliant video!
Good ole, Green energy.. 🥸
So much for your green energy.
Thank God ! Keep up the good work!
Just think of all the oil burned in making the hundreds of yards of concrete, the fuel burned by the heavy equipment to dig the foundation, the crane transport to the site, and all the support vehicles. The steel, the rebar and tower, all that steel had to be manufactured, transported, fabricated, and then transported again to the job site. The blades.....lots of toxic epoxy, which takes a lot of electric ovens to cure, plus the fibreglas production, transportation etc. All these various steps, not to mention all of the personal transportation requirements of the hundreds or thousands of workers required, required a lot of old school oil in one way or another. The gen pub just sees the finished product and goes "oh, free energy."
What sort of alternative do you propose?
Why are there so many of these being demolished? They are meant to be the new source of power and being built, not removed.
They only have a life span of 20 years or so. I just recently learned this. When they first started talking about turbines back in the '80s and '90s, no ever discussed their longevity.
When they get old and fully depreciated, they take them down and replace them with the newer generation of higher output and lower maintenance costs.
Lifespan is over. In the last decade those machines were made much more effective, so it's a simple calculation with the result it's better to invest in more powerful ones in the same spot than to maintain the old ones.
These things were never meant to be a serious source of power. Windmills were a serious source of power 300 years ago.
It costs more to purchase and maintain an intermittent source of energy than the money these ugly behemoths can produce. They can never generate enough intermittent power to pay for themselves...
unless you count the subsidies the energy companies get thanks to our bank accounts.
Didn't see 21.Maybe 4. You owe me.
It is painful for wind turbine workers to see their work place demolished
Good..Very nice to get rid of garbage eyesores..
WHY?
I love to watch these! Kuz they suck!! Can see 2 out my back door now! Put them in Delaware!!
Only saw 3 not 21. This is not a Blackjack game.
Yessir, good drop. Can you imagine all of these piled up at the landfill? They can't be recycled (fiberglass). Not so green, huh?
These are the biggest waste ! All this stuff goes into landfills nothing is recycled except the copper something! Why can’t they reuse the base tower and the generator housing ,and or the generator itself? But they don’t ! This is not green in any matter !
Blades and nacelle canopy go into landfill, the rest is recycled.
Shame to see this demolished, if disassembled properly most parts can be refurbished. But guess the owner did not want to spend the money on crane rent and heavy transport.
Its cool to see how they crumple from the blades first then just explode
What goes up must come down, such is the laws of the universe.
So much for sustainable…
Wonderful to see them go - they should never have been built in the first place.
But it hasn't touched the giant slabs of underground concrete that supported them. What will happen to the concrete?
Can you do a video showing all 21 in succession? Were these turbines ones that were damaged by the ice storm?
I would like to see that too.
I wonder if they're too far apart to to get a good wide angle of all of them. They possibly could be scattered around the land not all next to each other.
These were old, inefficient turbines without the most up-to-date technology. Winter ice storms did not damage them.
Very few (no?) wind turbines were damaged by the winter weather. The failures of the power grid were almost entirely at gas/coal power plants.
I saw that the last one had caught on fire at the generator. Not sure about the other two
@@danielmorris4676 a wind turbine is inefficient in it's design to begin with. Newer technology won't help wind turbines.
You know, you could take the blades off before they came down causing less ground damage
Well...That's green.
Nice video.
Must’ve run out of wind.
The birds will be happy without having to dodge those blades.
What a waste of a good generator. My question is why???
What it just 21 turbines in sight, or one of 21 demolitions?
These look like fairly old turbines and all machines have a service lifetime, but any idea how old?
The service lifetime probably coincides with the end of Depreciation Tax Deduction allowances, the end of other assorted subsidies ponied up by the taxpayers, etc.
@@t5ruxlee210 Absolutely on the right track there.
@@t5ruxlee210 ha, was wating for the first anti-wind comment. Are you saying that the fuel cost (free) now out weighs the electricity wholesale price? Those 21 turbines would have been selling $5 to $10 million dollars of electricity per year. At $70 / MWh. Look up a table of generation costs of different sources.
3MW land based turbines, not very old at all.
Why can't we reuse them.
Oi, you said twenty one yet we got one. Where's the other twenny?
Oh..so thats what green energy looks like.
Are those turbine going to be replaced by new ones?
hope not
I’m not good at math, but I only counted three…
Build back better ?
At $750,000.00 a windmill. Did it ever pay for itself?
nope...
Look into the tax desperation that's where a lot of the green is applied.
I wasn't sure which way it was going to fall at first
0:30 me when I fart
Goodbye wind turbine!
Now post the video of you picking up all those fiberglass scraps in that field. Oh wait. It's Texas. Environmental quality standards don't exist.
Well it's was a good start, but looks like you have plenty left to go. When you finish, we got a bunch a the gd things here in PA you can take care of.
Everybody knows that the bird is the word LLC bbbbb
What is the wall thickness of the steel?
Horrible things, a blight on landscape and devastating to people and animals living close by. Let's all turn lights off that we aren't using, turn off appliances on stand by mode 24 /7. Every little helps.
All of that fiberglass going into it's own private little landfill. How's that "green" taste now?
21? I saw 3.
Good Riddance.
Why? Shalom you are loved
I thought wind turbines were good for a 100 years as the internals could be swapped out easily as they got worn..at least that was what we were sold. The greenest energy on the planet.....
LOVE IT!!! Now if they would just do that to the rest of them .....ugly, useless things ... should have never been built ...
Super widoki
but but but they are so eco friendly and so good lol
Yea that voice of america towers, sad to see the future fall.
Simultaneously would have been better.
The future of so called "Green energy ".
Its farcical. The rare minerals needed for the magnets inside the gearbox housing are causing worldwide destruction of the lands where this mineral is found. Its heartbreaking to see barren earth. People are starving because of the "green greed"
The virgin wind turbine vs the chad demolition charge. Winner chad demolition charge.
Why remove them when we are still paying the bill
It was a fad in the early 21 century
Why were they demolished? Lack of wind?
Hopefully. Vile things.
They are being replaced with newer models.
sweet....21 going down in tx... out here in so cal. we are Putin up..28..news one...:-)
More debris to permanently clutter up the landfills.
A lot of wasted money in my book
What a gargantuan waste of money and a blight on the landscape
Anyone else see the irony in this?
i was hoping to see a line of 21 falling. shucks.
That was only one.
👍👍
Looks just like AOC's green new deal. Sorry I had to.
I d8dnt get to comment 9n the voice 9f america but it was cool demo but sad to see radio towers ridded i mean they were futur9stic at 9ne time.
These are not old Wind turbines! What an absolute waste why could these of not of been repaired or had extended life service
All that good old green Chinese energy
1:12 old windmill
The birds are happy, but seriously, look at the waste of resources by taking these things down. Can't they be retrofitted with newer components?
Biggest blight on the planet. Good riddance to them.
i know lets build them in the inner suburbs
Sofar for green energy....blasting turbines for sure is not green at all. They could have at least tried to reuse the structure of the tower and replace the turbine. Now you are left with a conrete base in the ground...This is a realy bad example of non reusability of existing "green" infrastructure. I am not even speaking of all the debris flying around, how many of that fine debris will not be removed by a cleanup?
Wind Turbines suck. They are unreliable and expensive. Their lifespan tend to be less than 10 years. What a waste of money although they do make good things to blowup.
But the environmentalists said wind and solar is the future...
😅😂🤣Hopefully many more to come in the future.
The investors who bribe lawmakers for taxpayer payouts to build these things would be wise to invest in other LLCs to dismantle these. Win-win for them, lose-lose for taxpayers.
Guess they are all going to junk yard now??
21 down hopefully the rest of these useless eyesores in the country will follow
Can you voice your political arguments elsewhere
Not even 20 years old