5 Wind Turbines Which Failed (Environmentally Friendly?)
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- Опубліковано 16 лис 2016
- Nearly 120 wind turbines catch fire each year, according to a research - ten times the number reported by the industry. The researchers claim that out of 200,000 turbines around the world, 117 fires take place annually - far more than what is reported by wind farm companies.
Fire has a huge financial impact on the industry; Each windmill costs more than £2 million and generates an estimated income of more than £500,000 per year. Any loss or downtime of these valuable assets makes the industry less viable and productive.
Fires are a problem for the industry, impacting on energy production, economic output and emitting toxic fumes, this could cast a shadow over the industry’s green credentials. Wind turbines catch fire because highly flammable materials such as hydraulic oil and plastics are in close proximity to machinery and electrical wires. These can ignite a fire if they overheat or are faulty. Lots of oxygen, in the form of high winds, can quickly fan a fire inside a turbine.
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"are they environmentally friendly"? Really? Just because of a few high profile accidents this video questions the environmental safety of harvesting the energy of the wind?
i am friendly to u mom
_If they suck up all the wind we'll all run out of fresh air._
Hmmmmmmmmmm Kinda sounds like the argument vs nuclear power
@@reahs4815 it may sound similar but they are on completely different scales. A windmill as far as I know is always built in an isolated area to have most efficient access to wind power and only requires occasional maintenance so it is normally unmanned. If it started collapsing or exploding, it is extremely unlikely to affect anyone other then normal inconveniences such an accident would entail.
Having a catastrophic failure at a nuclear power plant would be exponentially more dangerous in comparison. The dedicated workforce normally in attendence at the factory would obviously be put at risk, but nearby buildings and facilities along with their occupants would be in just as much danger since the potential hazards are devastating.
Comparing the failure of a windmill to a nuclear power plant is like comparing a small car accident to a large passenger train derailment. One is simple and unlikely to hurt more then the people involved. The other could easily seriously maim or kill everyone in the immediate vicinity.
@@nopenope5203 But the problem is that people still think nuclear power plants are built exactly like those 50 years ago which is not the case.
If a modern nuclear plant would fail the worst thing that could happen would be that they had to restart the reactor.
That's why we should encourage usage of nuclear so we can make nuclear better, more efficient and cheaper to build and maintain but also most importantly rebuild/demolish/upgrade old reactors that do not fulfill modern safety standards.
I'm not saying that we should stop using wind or solar but we should not get rid of nuclear power or have less of it because the masses of misinformed people think they are nukes in fancy houses. If we get rid of nuclear what will replace it? Wind? solar? HA! they will never be able to reliably replace nuclear as long as we don't have a safe, economically viable, efficient and good way to store excess power during low demand and use the stored energy during high demand
These are wind turbines, not windmills.
It's "Pat & Terry's". I've been there. Good looking chicks, too. They just don't "polish knobs".
The fuck?
See, "Pat" and "Terry" can be either a man or woman's name. Never seen the comedy: "It's Pat!" movie I take it..? You should have known.
As you mentioned, hand built 'Wind' Powered 'Mills' were actually cost effective and labor saving, grinding far more grain than possible by human hands. Wind electric energy generating Turbines should be so lucky.
Without the original Wind powered 'Lift' devices to pump out the polders before electrical turbine pumps, Holland would still be under water along it's coastal areas.
Without those pumps, water pipes would be big sellers, eh?
Anything mechanical is prone to failure... except for 1996 Toyota Camrys.
my 99 frame rusted in half before i had any major failures internal failures lol
@@Manice08 i totalled mine....but it still ran good lol
yes!! you cant kill the 90s model camrys
Or 3310 nokias
300k miles...only thing I ever had to fix was the snapped axle I did in a snow bank and my alternator.
Camera man: records
*something happens*
*Immediately points camera at the ground*
👌🏿
2:16 someone installed wind turbines on Windows xp. It failed miserably
NO you IDIOT! It was t'other way round - stuxnet did the rest!!!!
Tradcast Someone installed an Apple Mac OS into that turbine.
don't you mean it crashed?
Blue screened
Windows XP is not enough, it needs Protegent.
the first one was a demolition.
Yup. Everyone seemed pretty chill about it, even mimicking the honking warning horn.
FACE PLANT!
U meaned second
Well, the one labelled #5, anyway. Seems they had a short clip showing it working, then Boom! Down it comes. (I'm not including the damage being done in the title clip prior to that... #5 was the first of the series of 5 reviews.)
It's unfortunate they haven't all been demolished yet. :)
It definitely looked like a freakin simulated demolition! How can one lightning strike kill a windmill? I mean, it can but it can't make it fall over, so I take it as a yes that it was a simulated demolition
1:37 how to power the whole city with one turbine
1:53 or no
he gone hyper drive too far
For like 10 minutes nice
died trying
FBI OPEN UP
Anyone ever hit a bird with their car? If so you better park it.
mechanical things fail all the time...shit happens..
(Psst, common sense isn't very common anymore. Please be mindful of flat earth retards)
Mott theHoople cat
Exactly. We cannot create perfect things after all...
Forest gump reference
forrest who's named after Nathaniel Bedford Forrest ? Literally the founder of the KKK. Come on don't bring that democrat stuff around here.
The First one wasn't a failure it was a contorlled destruction!
I know right! That first one was obviously not a failure! It was _entirely_ a controlled demolition!
Yeah, it was not a failure. It was a completely controlled dismantling!
Indeed! It clearly wasn’t a failure. But rather a controlled wrecking.
Here I will explain all of them 5 you said that one 4 dumbass bird not being smart at all I’m pretty sure if my dog knows not to to jump into the pool in my backyard the bird should know not to go there 3 again old and it was probably rusty 2 Mother Nature 1 show me the full clip please
Absolutely the first one was without a doubt a controlled destruction
"(Enviromental friendly?)" What are you exactly critical of here?
How do you think this compare to... when a oil field catches on fire? or a when a tanker sinks and leaks billions of gallons of crude into open sea?
oh my boy
These things are being put in the path of bird migration patterns they do not produce enough electricity to run big cities
@@RonP51 no they are not. and even if they do kill a dozen birds a year, coal plants however, kill millions (of human beings, not to mention wildlife) every year via air pollution.
the trade off is crystal clear.
Can you please enlighten us when ANY TANKER EVER leaked 'billions of gallons of crude' into the sea then
Oh...I though not. Stop exaggerating to make your point
@Exinety Icxee Actually you are , there is no taker that carries over 312,000MT
@Exinety Icxee Why respond then ....... Why the need for profanity , does one not have an verbose vocabulary from which to draw ?
1:51 this is my favorite one because it went so fast. That made me laugh
You hear that a lot he
lack of proper maintenance is normally the cause of failure
Lack of failure (reliability) is normally caused by proper maintenance.
Michael Gillette
Michael Gillette. people don't take care there stuff
Looks like those last 2 had failed brakes. You have to be able to lock those down in too high winds
Michael Gillette no truer words ever spoken! keeps farm silo crews employed to this day!
Oh look, I can almost see the oil spill that these windmills didn't create.
You can see all of the people being evacuated from the nearby community, right?
yeah, no.
They contain hundreds of gallons of motor what do you think is burning
Wow. 'Hundreds' of gallons?
Off of China, there is a single tanker that had a collision and fire. According to the BBC, it was "carrying 136,000 tonnes of ultra-light crude oil from Iran which generates a toxic underwater slick that would be invisible from the surface."
There is no comparison. Hundreds of gallons of oil or other fuel may be what a container ship (not a tanker, which holds much more) leaks inadvertently in the course of a week of operation. In 2012, a small cargo ship was described to have a 'minor' leak of 1500 gallons. A single oil tank car, the kind that have been derailing and exploding in past years, can hold over 34,000 gallons.
Fuskisima still has stopped pouring radio active water in to the pacific i take a bath in petrol over cesium anyday
Strategos Gaming actually the windmills by my house are leaking oil onto the fields
I only clicked here because of "
Enviromental friendly?" sounds like making the argument that nuclear power isnt as good as coal, becuase theres been 3 large meltdown since we build nuclear reactors
*because
@@rolfpoelman3486 grammar Nazi
Friday:arrives
Me: 0:28
We should quit planting trees because they might catch on fire someday.
or fall down in a storm and kill a person
And you will inhale only co2 n live rest of your life😂
@I Am Sekouu surely will 😀😀
Dumbest comment ever lmao!
Munji nescafe r/whoooosh
1:36, I don't think wind turbines are meant to turn into sonic.
Aurctic it went crazy bc the brakes weren't working right. I know that bc I build wind farms and wind turbines
The brakes most likely failed
carter masters if you worked at a wind farm you’d know that the blades also turn to prevent that from happening... it probably got hit by lightning and shorted a fuse causing the safety features to shut down
Yea the gear reduction system probably ran out of oil or something and failed to turn the speed down
daniel PC/ Xbox its called feathering, propeller planes do it too
Bird: flying noises
Windmill: BEGONE
Turbins: " All we are is junk in the wind.....". Junk in the wind all we are is junk in the wind... oh oh oh, lol
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Exactly my thoughts xD Like windmills should be 100% reliable while everything in the industry fails sometimes, even things built using way older and well-rounded technologies... When it comes to windmills, they don't really have anything toxic inside to harm the environment. Just some garbage to collect, bring new parts and you're good to go. Things break, nothing new. In comparison to the amount of them all over the world, I'm sure we can call windmills pretty reliable. Prepaid propaganda video, nothing else.
You wanna go sober up and try that sentence again?
No. This ad brought to you by an internet troll, and you took the bait.
Hydro Solar Nuclear*
Ever see an oil well fire? These are sparklers by comparison.
yeah, these are better for the enviroment. things malfunction once in a while
I was about to say, at least these don't spill toxic fumes and radiation.
Wind turbines are polluting a lot more scenery than the fossil fuel business now, and are a menace to anything that flies, especially bats. I'm not a fracking apologist but that infrastructure is much smaller and sites can at least be restored when the oil or gas plays out. Wind turbines are meant to loom over landscapes indefinitely, including red-lit night skies, and it's no simple matter to take them down once they're up. cutt.us/blight_for_naught
Respect Silence
when you said polluting, I assumed you were talking about poisoning the natural world in some way, but that link is just about how wind turbines look ugly. Do they actually have a significant negative environmental impact, or is this really just about them feeling intrusive in landscapes?
A sleek white windmill looks a lot better than a black oil well tower that spews orange flame and dark plume once in a while when overflow valve opens.
Top flight German turbine maker, Siemens booked a €223 million write down (ie loss) in 2014 due to the fact it had to replace bearings in a fleet of turbines that were less than 2 years old.
So I'd really like to know if the base on the first one was poured to shallow as I see it pulled it right out of the ground as it toppled over!
Amazing that the title reads windmills and not wind turbines.
"a machine for producing continuous power in which a wheel or rotor, typically fitted with vanes, is made to revolve by a fast-moving flow of water, steam, gas, air, or other fluid."
I don't know if you have been around wind "Turbines" much but they are not continuous. They always seem to be shutting down because the wind is to slow or the wind is to fast or they just feel like it for all I know.
Be aware that "continuous" in that context means that (as long as there is wind) the power output is constant, unlike a petrol/diesel or steam engine that has some moments where the engine is coasting (not producing any power or consuming power to compress air) and the load runs off the flywheel.
It isn't related to the fact they aren't able to run because there isn't enough wind.
Aint it the truth. It cranks me up when I drive by these wind generating farms and see how many blades are not turning knowing that my tax money is subsidizing those non-turning tax drains.. The owners make money no matter if the blades are turning or not.
you are kidding right. you are why this country is failing
Solar is better. That's what we have.
The Centralia Pa. coal mine fire has been burning since 1962, with no way to put it out. It may burn for hundreds of years. I'll take a few minor wind turbine fires instead.
This is the original setting for the movie Silent Hill, Centrailia Penn.
It's been continually burning for nearly 60 years... Where do you figure 3-5 years it will be out? There is a coal seam fire in Australia that has been burning for an estimated 6000 years. The Centralia fire will continue to burn for a long, long time.
Why would it run out of air? I has been burning for years with enough air to keep it going for 60 years.
John Thaller there’s more than 60 years worth of oxygen on this planet...
John Thaller Like that response! But as I was told by a nice liberal lady with a very foul mouth"facts are racist".
Number 5 : it face plants...
My lil bro watches
He : face plants
At 1:23.. " ahhh yo yo yoooo yohh tissss shhhh " 😂😂😂
You all actually questioning whether this is more environmentally friendly than fossil fuels? Taking this so seriously is messin wit ma vibe I'm just tryna watch windmills tear itself apart 🤣🤣🤣
@Sharkzer My grammar is bad intentionally; it's fun and funny. Yours? I cant imagine someone uses intentionally bad grammar to correct another's grammar. "Write english" ? English is an idea, one being self referential. You dont write English: you write in English. Can I not just make a comment for fun while I'm high?
😂 Yuh get nerded @skarkzer
@Sharkzer ...What? dude that was straight gibberish
Danceswithsloths ma nigga one of them internet trolls. thirst’n 💦 for sum attention, ain’t UA-cam without em
@Sharkzer jummijammi emppu :D
*Windmill accidentally kills 1 bird* "IS THIS ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY" *Oil spill happens killing thousands possibly millions of living organisms* "Hey man, it happens"
you do realize Oil is a natural substance right ......
@@TheXanderGrim I never claimed it wasn't? Oil spills kill thousand of birds, turtles, otters etc. and that's a fact. Oil being used for gas causes co2 pollution which will eventually melt the poles killing every animal up there as well. It will also cause sea levels to rise which will end up causing many humans to die as well for various reasons. It being a natural substance doesn't make it environmentally friendly lol.
Windmills kill thousand of big birds every year. Especially eagles and owls, plus bats. Windmills are not eco friendly at all. In average they just produce 1/3 of their capacity due to unstable wind conditions.
@@TheXanderGrim loool yes, uranium/mercury/cyanide etc. are also a natural substances but you would't want to have them in your drinking water would you
Leaky pipes aren't tho
I can't imagine how much power #4 was producing before it broke
0:40
bird:going to the MOOOOOON
windmill:GOING TO HELLLLLLLLL
Why do cars fail? Are they unreliable? Are they safe for the environment?
Post your answers down below in the comments section!
1. They're complex machines with unbelievable stresses on various parts.
2. Yes.
3. No.
lol, did you not understand his irony? really?
Peter literally bikes to work wherever he goes lol
when someone tells you 300 story and you suddenly ask, oh so this is how romeo met juliet . Wake up dumbo.
Johnny Miller राम राम
Funny looking windmills.. Where do you get the flour?
Jamie Bales lol
Uh, WalMart, aisle 12? You should have known.
from the birds the blades mash up ......"MAN...it is tuff to be a bird"....look it up..funny Disney cartoon
Yamaha SR650 are the maxi pads for tt500 dirtbikers right next to that,or one aisle over?
Shots fired.
When it said:Why does a windmill fail after all?”I was like:Because it saw yo mama
Imagine driving by and seeing one these things break off and start flying
0:42 Clearly the bird is Suicidal
They seem to be drawn to them. Bird kill is a serious issue. I think they can't figure out what they are, but, since they are in their territory, are looking for a way to chase them away.
The birds are drawn to the tall wind turbines because they are very tall and the birds think it would be a good place for a nest to be safe from critters on the ground. There is turbulence around the blades that create a vortex that pull the bird into the blade so it may seem like a dumb bird but the nesting is the bait and the blade it the death trap. I have a design that gives them a place to nest on top with no danger of getting hit by a blade.
What is that Design ? :O
So are people that support this hideous scar on the land. If you really think this is the way to save the earth from our energy addiction dream on.
There is a way to save the earth from peoples energy addiction. Remove all people from the planet :)
From a channel called engineering world... lmfao
Bro his channel literally says "ew"
WIND TURBINE FAILURES:
1: Struck by lightening
2. A bid got hit by one of the blades (Only one that was the fault of the turbine)
3: An old, outdated design of a turbine collapsed
4: Someone forgot to turn one off during a storm
5: Same as #4, someone forgot to shut one down during high wind speeds
Yup, all of these were definitely the fault of the wind turbine.
1:37
I wanna know how many MegaWatts that thing was generating before it exploded.
1:36
0:26 In a way it just makes me laugh because of the way it just face plants lmao.
Rencrab TIIIMBERRRR
Now let's take a look at what happens when a nuclear power plant fails...
hahahahhaa
Well that took about 2 minutes. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_and_radiation_accidents_by_death_toll#List_of_accidents
Coal at 15,000 deaths per trillion kWhrs produced, while nuclear is the least at zero. Wind energy kills a mere 100 people or so, the majority from falls during maintenance activities.
In England, there were 163 wind turbine accidents that killed 14 people in 2011. Wind produced about 15 billion kWhrs that year, so using a capacity factor of 25%, that translates to about 1,000 deaths per trillion kWhrs produced (the world produces 15 trillion kWhrs per year from all sources). - from www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2013/09/29/forget-eagle-deaths-wind-turbines-kill-humans/
So unless you care more about dirt than you do your fellow man you are wrong.
So, after all the statistics ... i would still prefer the windmill crashing to a nuclear power plant fail ... just my 2 cents
@@elmariotti934 You should look up Chernobyl, it wasnt very deadly compared to the good it had done, that is why i say if you choose wind you care more about dirt than human life. If your take is you care more about the environment it would be a better arguement.
Chernobyl is still a no go area for humans. There were also large cancer clusters where the radiactive cloud passed by - My wifes family lives in one the areas so I have personal experience. Choosing dirt over wind No entiendo?!
Number 5 didn't fall collapse on accident it was on intentional because they were removing it.
4 wasn't a fail either- the turbine was performing as intended, and 2 was done intentionally to determine the turbine's maximum stress limit.
Eugene Levin , why ?
Number 2 was not intentional it happend under a storm in Denmark where the brakes failed
Love how the first clip was a turbine functioning exactly as intended and redirecting lightning through the lightning rods built into the blades. yet it's on a list of "failures". Do your research, the entire thing is rigged with built in, engineered lightning rods and is all grounded. And the second clip is unfortunate but does not happen very often. I work oil field and am around those turbines often and not once have I seen any dead birds killed by them. I know its true predators could have gotten to the birds after hitting the ground.
Jacob Blain bird kept flying around it too, birds fault, looked like he was committing suicide.
@@paullee7467 Yes, it is the bird's fault. Because it fully understands all the engineering, math, and angular velocities involved in a wind turbine.
what happened at @1:50?
I guess it was overspeeding, but what did it led to?
I just watched the slow motion. looks like one of the blades failed, then an unbalance occurred, and another blade hit the body.
well wind turbine goes up in flames mostly because of hydraulic failure it cannot control blades pitch any more, starts to spin to fast generator and gearbox overheat ant then fire lot of it
Thank you for your valuable input it was indeed informative.
I was wondering why there was so much fire and smoke, forgot about the hydraulics. (oil).
kawasaki whip two wind turbines in this video that are collective control can hold up to 30L of good stuff 40 if yaw is hydraulic powered
The fiberglass and other composites continue the combustion. Most people do not realize that the blades themselves are hollow fiberglass shells.
During runaways, they fling themselves for great distances... if remaining intact. Read about the maintenance crew on one tower trapped during the intense, deadly fire. Rescue, if even possible, is rare.
Blogen Geezer true keeping it light so it doesn't break from its own weight
The fossil fuel companies pay you for this video ! ?
Alfredo Valencia Are you an Orange??🤔
And if they are? It's called business.
Fossil fuel,as in dino fuel,pa leez
Jethro Tul Yeah get me sum of that good'ole Dinomordial soup to get the V8 purring lol.
Probably
Imagine you were inside that windmill watching the gears turn and going faster and faster on number two lol
In Holland two people WERE inside, and they got burned alive!
@@bluebird5361 What woh, that's insane lol
On the one had, 200'000 bird deaths a year caused by wind turbines..
On the other hand, an increase of 5 degrees centigrade by 2100 of which the last example of rapid temperature rise like that would be the End Permian event which is better known as 'the great dying' in which 96% of all life died.
KRP Mills I have wind turbans on three sides of me. Still looking for a dead bird
There is an estimated 1.3-4 billion birds killed a year by cats. Are cats bad for the environment? Shall we order the extermination’s of fluffies everywhere? I heard there are no cats in America. Catchy little jingle.
@@benjaminmccarter4318 Did you even read what I said? I'm pointing at the fact human climate change will be the death of a lot more than 200'000 birds. Wind power is not a perfect system to use but it is so many magnitudes greater than causing higher global temperatures from burning fossil fuels or nuclear waste.
lets ask what the gulf of mexico would rather take a second chance with, oil or wind
Oil of course.
mike jakob dsss
mike jakob think of the power it would bring in
absolutely, we can also ask fukishima and prypiat about nuclear or wind....
Jonathan Niay id be willing to bet they’ll pick wind
lack of maintenance & human error.
Thanks for your feedback !
Every coin has two sides, maybe we could learn it from these lesson, and find a better solution
Melluns 07 accutally 331 tons of coal equals about 662,000 KWh but in a year a windmill produces about 6,000,000 KWh
hypertextbook.com/facts/2006/LunChen.shtml
www.ewea.org/wind-energy-basics/faq/
yes, most of these look like they were just running in harsh conditions, wind turbine blades rotate so they can be toggled on and off.
Of course they make enough and more than what was required to make them. If they didn't they'd be economically inviable and people would've realized that a while back.
0:56 this is Rovio's fault, their games are giving impressionable birds delusions of grandeur
Have you got any clips of other power station failures for comparative purposes... Coal/gas/nuclear?
OH WOW!!!! Look at the hundreds of miles of coastline ruined when the windmill explodes.
Very nice and warm
nuclear power plants clearly are better
Hi, Jay Gee - Careful, my friend: the free use of irony and sarcasm can confuse UA-cam's more literal-minded viewers. Meanwhile... Yep, you're right to be outraged. It must have taken four guys two or three HOURS to clear up that mess. I mean they'd need a broom and a bucket; maybe even a shovel and a truck.
And you can bet that the unfortunate bird (a vulture, I think) was disappointed not to have had its feathers coated in lovely black gunk before it got clobbered. Hey, if it WAS a vulture, do you think it was hanging around hoping to feed on birds killed by the turbine's blades? Now THAT would be ironic...
Complete disaster. Destroyed the ozone layer and now there's less oxygen on the earth 🤣
Hey look at the minimal destruction when a nuclear plant goes bam
0:22 close to my house, it was taken down on purpose. There is a new one there, not exactly friendly for the environment but not a fail.
Thank you. I suspected that was the case.
There is almost no environmental impact from taking down one wind turbine, though. I'd think that plowing that field would be more environmentally damaging than the wind turbine takedown.
number 4 killed me 🤣🤣
Yes a farm with 100 wind turbines and when one fails ... OMG we only have 99 left.
When a Oil refinery catches fire or coal fire plant fails the WHOLE system is done for weeks
Or when Nuclear Plant explodes and almost irradiated half of Europe:
Nah this was just human error, and as we all know, human errors don't happen twice
This video was probably made by a petroleum engineer.
Sole Survivor So are most of the comments. They are increasingly out of work anyways :P
stephen dwyer That is soms excellent reasoning you got there!
Well of course,!
Politician claiming to be an engineer were the makers of this video
Marley Ottman dweee
Thanks for sharing, but, I must say, the title is a bit off, and the details are a bit lacking.
Not to see if wind tirbines are friendly
IG Midas - What are trying to say?
a BIT????????????????
@@Novusa Any wind turbine failure is environmentally safe compared to a hydro dam bursting, a steam boiler exploding and a nuclear power plant "incident"!
You know, I can show some videos of house failures and how deadly those are to the environment. But you would still need shelter
It is a true joy to see these things self destruct.
What features should have a good windmill?
I kind of feel like that bird was an idiot....
that is what we call natural selection, mah boy
Same
agreed
Yes
A bird brain, if you will
Title is either clickbait or this video was only made for propaganda purposes. Wind turbines can have problems just like any other energy source but compared to coal they're clearly better for the environment.
Terry Melvin and the hills and mountains of Ireland 🇮🇪
it would take a crew of a half-dozen guys and a couple trucks maybe a week to pick up the pieces of these fails vs. whatever it costs to clean up 1 million barrels of oil in the ocean
How are they better for the environment when they dont produce enough revenue to sustain themselves? You can not rob Peter to pay Paul.
You are absolutely wrong as it takes coal oil and gas to manufacture and keep a wind generator running
It actually uses more coal oil and gas to build and install one then keep it running than it will ever be able to save over just using coal fired generators
In short you are the one spewing propaganda
Terry Melvin they're certainly less ugly than a coal mine! Less of an eyesore too.
Good thing those older units are being phased out for ones that don't have these issues, but strangely the anti-windmill people always forget to mention that fact.
Nah, windmills are great & nostalgic, wind turbines suck though.
Texas is experiencing rolling blackouts as wind turbines freeze in a winter storm.
I feel bad for those Texans, their wind turbines down there in the south aren't built for the cold like ours up here in SW Minnesota.
2:08
When you are a wind turbine and you realise that you are on the Teletubbies' hill
Alot cleaner than coal... yeah birds might get hit rarely but at least their not flying through clouds of smoke and smog. Most of the windmills in the video are old. New ones are made with gears that keep them from spinning too fast
your not right about the bird statistic the Fish and Game estimates 10,000 birds a year are killed by wind farms and the power companies that build these wind farms get free pass to kill bald eagles while us peons are fined and possibly jailed if we kill a bald eagle.
KILLKING110 Do you know how much birds traffic kill every year? This ain't nothing in comparison.
It's cats that kill more birds than anything else. Then there is buildings that kill more birds than wind mills.
John Johno I think it's safe to say that there is a lot that kills more birds than windmills.
Nuclear is the best.
The fifth one was the best by far!(#1) the second one, (#4) was a planned demolition, not a failure. You can't see the cable that leads down to a tandem axle dump truck used to pull it down, but the horn sound was produced by that truck, to warn, that the turbine was about to topple. The excavator to the right of the turbine was probably used to dig around the foundation, so the truck could pull it down.
THE BIRD LOL
Their fail rate is hilariously low. I think its good for people to understand that they aren't infallible, but this video and headline are pretty much click bait.
triz313 they are still shit and worthless. Tree hugger propaganda.
@@scottday1988 I mean if science is propaganda... Look, I'm not going to take the jobs of oil workers and coal miners away. It's a finite resource, but it's still important. But as a country, and as a global community, we've got to find better sources of energy. There's a reason miners get black lung. There's a reason oil spills kill and some wells poison. You've got to be honest yourself about whether or not you would want to live next to a plant spewing pollution next to your house. I'm willing to bet you don't live anywhere near a place like that.
@@triz313 Look up LFTRs, and Kirk Sorenson.
badreality2 Thorium. I watched a few docs about it. Very intriguing.
triz313 not far from one coal gens don’t spew smoke like they used to. As an oil field worker I can vouch that we make as small a foot print as possible. We are conservationists we live here too. We go out of our way for wild life. I agree with the finding new energy sources. I just hate wind and solar. Wind turbines are ugly unsightly landscape spoiling hideous junk. Solar field are built in wet lands they don’t produce enough energy for the space they take up
R.I.P Bird
Fuck that stupid bird !
The next state over from me has only a few hundred windmills. I talked to an ex co worker, who used to work on them, and he said they find thousands of birds dead every year from windmills. He said the blades are too thin and aerodynamic so they basically run so silent birds don't detect them.
@@marcushenness6437 I monitor several 2.2 mgw turbines near a very bird populated lake, in 5 years I have never found a dead bird, I have seen them playing in and around the blades as they run, eagles, hasks even buzzards, they don't seem to be bothered.
The eagle has landed.
Titanic: yea 😭😭😭😭😭 😢😢😢😢:(
I was gonna hide in the comments from the collapsing huge fans but everyone’s so salty I’d rather be a bird caught in a blade
Well it's for a good cause a least, right?
@@Scrod117 i forgot i even commented this what is this video
1:05 Cue the TPIR Losing Horns for that poor birdie.
Do a "5 Nuclear plants which Failed" and see if this is environment-friendly or not.
FiloClip or oil spills, or fracking, or refinery fires, or tanker explosions, or pipe ruptures or oil feild fires, or coal mine explosions/collapses. It's fucking laughable comparing a wind turbines failure to any other energy production except solar, geothermal, and hydroelelctric.
All nuclear power plants fail because they have no way of dealing with the waste by-product from nuclear power plants so every one of them FAIL. Every one of them are an environmental disaster in slow motion until they explode like in Japan and then they contaminate every bit of the planet. That is the biggest fail of all.
just stfu nuclear energy is safe
Yes, "NUCLER" it is safe...until it goes HORRIBLY WRONG.
+John Harrison
Except nobody's comparing wind to oil and coal, and when you do compare wind to solar, geothermal, and hydroelectric, wind is laughably bad. Pointing to dirty energy sources doesn't excuse wind from being the shittiest out of all the clean energy sources.
I can't see how the 4th is a turbine fail. The 2nd is epic
#2 probably someone forgot to turn it off or it was a malfunction, they're not supposed to work during a storm with winds that exceed a certain nominal velocity.
like the propeller of an airplane, that pulls the entire airplane forward, a windturbine also wants to move, but it is fixed on its pole. It still wants to move, so with heavy windblow it breaks from its fixing foot.
I am pretty sure that the following list of mechanical devices listed when built contain these items. using hydraulic oil, plastics, electric motors generators (alternators) and are known to give major problems when they do break down. Planes, cars, trucks, earth moving equipment, ships, all large modern buildings (industrial and commercial). Rockets both commercial and military
0:22 when you trust fall but you don’t get caught
I think that scene number two was a Danish mill. That mill took some severe force but had to give up after all. I was working at the plant where they cut the steel from coils for the towers and where the bottom flange flange was cut with plasma burner. The reason for the mill malfunction was the brakes that failed allowing the mill to run free in very strong wind. the bottom flange should be 30 centimeters thick and the plasma burner cuts with a tolerance of 1,5 millimeter. All steel for the tower body is certified and stamped with highly approved quality control. The yield stress of the steel for the tower body should be 350 to 400, not sure after so many years. The steel was made in Sweden from the best material from the company SSAB Svensk Stål Aktie Bolag. The yield stress number stand for the strength and flexibility of the steel.
That was informative ! Thank you for your feedback !
And Happy New Yeah ;)
Too informative
Modern wind turbines switch off during storms and have an integrated fire extinguishing system. In any case, a burning wind turbine is less of a problem than when a nuclear power plant explodes.
They dont explode, that's only steam that causes an explosion, fusion reactors are safe entirely
They simulated the wind turbine to fall down on the 5th one, the storm didn't do anything to it except for making it wet and soggy
XxQw34TyM069xX Plutonium escapes with that steam
@@ronaldstaples5752 That was debunked too.
No power at all kills people. Face facts
Literally just watch "water tower falling fails" now I'm watching this
I saw a wind turbine kill a dolphin. It was brutal.
Sure it wasn't a 'Flying Fish' ⚠ ☠ ♒ ✌
how can it kill a dolphin, it can't be on water -_-
@@CL-lk5kz it was a Japanese model
Link pls
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Are you sure?
2:29 this scene looks exactly in Windows XP 😂
1:30 CREEPER BOUT TO BLOW UP MY HOUSE
A bird flies into a wind turbine, killing itself, and the turbine "failed." Interesting twist.
Just look at the first one =) another failure
Speed of the end of the blade can be seen as slow, but actually it is well over 150km/h. In number 2 the speed of the blades end's would be approaching sonic barrier, or even went over it. Usually in strong winds the rotor should be stopped to prevent the construction from tearing apart like it was shown, but the brakes must have malfunctioned.
Exxon Valdez. Three Mile Island. Chernobyl, Fukushima......ETC. Five wind turbines OMG.
Eyes, ears and mind need to be open. If some one says "no regrets" they are a lair or a fool. But thanks for the thoughts Jon.
My country has enough hydro power to power the country until it has about 1.5x the current population but they have to go and put ugly fucken wind mills that are huge. They cover the ranges and have ruined the landscape.
TMI was not as bad as people think . and the main issue is in this area we have a radon issue which causes thyroid cancer people do not take that into account Fukashima was a natural disaster it could happen anywhere it was stupid to build it in a subduction zone Exon was a bad captain who was drunk at the helm . Also you are ill informed on Gen 3 nuclear
Wind and solar are more deadly than nuclear. And we don’t get much electricity at all from petroleum, so why the mention of Exxon Valdez?
1:39 how windy was it when that happend?
COOL video
It's probably bearing overload mostly, they're going too fast for it to cope then heat gets into the system and into the housing.
million of automobile failures a year (Environmentally friendly?)
Nope. Some are quite the selective environmental activists.
The statistics of fatal car crashes do put gun death statistics to shame.
Thanks sir
0:55 he was playing to be "don vergas" 😂...
Don quixote of buzzards. Tilting at turbines. It’s a dangerous affair
We should paint them green so they fit/blend in
Thomas Jones Then we can get more birdstrike vids!
Green half blue half. Perhaps a whistle at a pitch birds can hear but not humans.
This would be rather more effective.
Julia Sjögren No, it doesen't. It is a video of windmills, dumbass. There is nothing to disprove Global Warming in it, despite what you and your fellow conspiretards want to believe.
Thomas Jones BECAUSE THE SKY IS GREEN AND NOT BLUE AND WHITE!!!
I just got into the industry of wind turbines.. even though some break down, i was told maybe ten a year across the country, the worst part of a wind turbine is the ladder on the inside that a technician has to climb to get to the top for maintenance.. it is over 250 feet to get up there.. I would put a turbine in my backyard before a coal mine.. so if these things fail, it’s because of age, human error or an act of god...
They should all have a safety mechanism like if the wind speed is too fast.
R.I.P brid
"Lance are you sure that you tightened up the two bolts on the back of the post? Lance, "Ummmm....yep!" 0:26
Use vertical axis wind turbines with bird screens.
use river and sea turbines and chop up fish instead, remember Nirvana said fish dont have any feelings :)
VAWTs are less efficient than HAWTs.
Gammareign no they don't they have nothing to keep the birds away. I know this bc my dad is building a wind farm
1:36 how it feels to chew 5 gum
New 5 gum simulate your senses