Funniest Wind Turbine Fails
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
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0:00 Tacke TW1.5i
0:28 Destroyed Vestas
0:34 Gamesa/Vestas
0:43 Don't Know
0:59 Vestas V20
1:17 Nordex N117
1:32 Gamesa G80
1:50 Don't know
1:55 N.E.G Micon
2:29 Don't know
2:38 Suzlon
2:55 AEG
2:59 Vestas V80
3:11 Don't know
3:33 Vestas V80
3:50 Nordtank NTK300
Really impressive that you can identify so many of the turbines. Today's turbines are much better quality, and I doubt that many of those failures would happen with today's models, but there are still a lot of V80, G80 and N117 turbines installed in the world. A Google search turned up a number of fires with the V80.
@@amosbatto3051bull💩 ...same problems and it's only getting worse, with so many of these scrappy abominations now littering the countryside
Depending on the size, the are between 300 and 600 litres of lubricant oil (mineral) in a wind turbine. Part of the reason why they burn so well.
so basically its a giant oil lamp connected to a turbine.
Greta: OIL! how dare you?!!!
For reference an average car approximately will take about 10-30 litres total of lubricant as engine oil, transmission fluid and power steering.
@@Levi-qb2uf lot cheaper than a battery
🤣
I love the way those things burn, thats got to be good for the environment!
Most likely better than garbage incineration.
Mmmm all those green energy fumes burning into the atmosphere. Great job.
Yeah it’s soooooo much worse than than a coal power plant which does this but NOT x1000
Just like 150million cars do.
It’s OK it’s carbon free smoke……
Just a quick side note: these things are insanely big. Their blades are much much bigger than they actually look
1:20 интересно что стало с ним🤔☹️
Yep First time I saw them up close I was shocked as well.
The blades were atleast the height of 5 storey building.
Agreed. If people want a size comparison, look up vids about them being built and the blades being transported through cities at night.
I know for sure, there's a college building where I live, and it has a windblade out front for display
No kidding
If you've ever driven beside a semi hauling one of these blades you'll know how insanely large they are
And to think that one 1:56 threw those blades probably a thousand feet.
I’m in rural USA but off and on see a train load with only turbine blades. They cover about 3 train cars!
@@Nikkk6969 yeah it's ridiculous
You can also get a good understanding of how big they are if you’ve ever worked on them or climbed up them( late 80’s\ early 90’s in Tehachapi, CA for me).
@@HalfWarrior yeah they've got a damn house on top of them. Pretty wild
Sums up the renewables industry quite nicely.
Nuclear looks like a must now
Correct! One turbine out the hundreds of thousands gets destroyed by wind while deep water horizon spills oil everywhere!
@@someasiandude4797wind turbines only live for 15-25 years max...and than, everything has to be rebuild again...an absolute negative as usual with these "green projects"...what happens to turbine blades? Oh, right...they burry them...just one example
This was most enjoyable. Too much wind, don't work. Too little wind, don't work. Hardly reliable energy.
That man in Parachute got the worlds
best ride.
For prob the first minute.😂😂😂
@@flyingfirebear7270 most likely his last ride
@@davidbell7091 yeah😂
I think you van hear him screaming lmao
The best ride for the rest of his life
All that lovely green energy, no pollution there 😂
You don't get why Trump said that stuff about turbines? You think he cares about birds? He said it because Big Oil told him to say it. Let's talk about Big Oil pollution, shall we?
@@SRSOSChannel2ur dumb
Three mile island, or a windmill take your pick .
@SRSOSChannel2 OH grow up and stop whining.
@@chrissanders1027 reliable constant energy, or useless things that break down, are inconsistent and need a lot of land to make a wind farm.
Take your pick.
Kind of terrifying, considering how big those blades are.
Seems like wind turbines destroy themselves more often than actual powerplants.
This is the most eco-friendly video I've ever seen!
You should check out the ocean oil spills then, that's some real eco friendly viewing!
@@gooser__43 OK!
@@gooser__43 Gooser, Birds and bats are absolutely terrified of wind power.
The more that are taken down, the better.
@@iamaduckquack
Greens--- mining for coal, no, no,no, shut them all down.
Greens--- mining for rare Earth minerals for their beloved batteries yes, yes, yes.
If you are aware of how much fossil fuel they use to extract all those minerals plus the environmental and human damage it causes, then there is no way you can support the "green agenda".
More and more info is coming out showing diesel and petrol has less effect than the net zero green agenda.
@@iamaduckquack It's not the same.....
depending in the model output, each failure is about $2M-$4M
Assuming they are built in Europe. Its even more in the US as European companies have learned they can charge even more because we are stupid enough to buy them.
@@goldenhate6649 totally agree!
It’s crazy how fast these things can get considering just how huge they are
As an old oilfield hand, I gotta say I love these videos. Windmills and solar panels are such a scam.
Ridiculously toxic to produce as well.
I worked at Vestas who makes wind turbines and those things are humongous and heavy! Couldn't imagine it flinging parts all around
Was it a great job
@@andy500nocents5 are you looking for a job ?
@@andy500nocents5 yea why are you looking for a job?
@@andy500nocents5 ... you looking for a job??
@@andy500nocents5 so are you looking for a job?
All the other wind towers stand by looking at him thinking "we told him it's getting windy".
Such green, very energy!
Buhh buh but clement change is causing wild fires!
1:25... that kid is having a great time
Sure that's not a guy in a parachute
Is me okay?
@@NickyYey are you?
@@pressaltf4forfreevbucks179 idk, do you know?
Looks like he had a really really really really really...... bad time.
Wind turbines would save earth
The Wind turbines:
Well. If built correctly and was always on the correct speed that would never happen
@@Starvaze it's just a joke
@@Starvaze everything fails sometimes.
@@Starvaze well yes.
They should never fail from being oversped.
but also.
Haha wind turbine grilled because it's too windy
@@heyhoe168 Yes, but most nuke and coal power plants run for decades. While so many of these wind turbines are failing or being decommissioned after a few years.
Nope no pollution at all
Spin me right around baby right around no right around baby right around now🤣🤣🤣
Actually I live surrounded by wind farms and the one with the red blade tips at the beginning isn’t a fail. That’s how they demolish them, and you can tell because the field is plowed and how they celebrate once it’s down. It irritates me that people always think it’s an accident.
But yeah other than that awesome video! Saw a lot of fails that I hadn’t seen before! :D
I have to agree with you
Thanks for clarifying. I didn't know.
Still polluted the earth with all the byproduct s in the manufacturing process. All the raw diesel to deliver those things and assemble. Everything has a negative.Looks really beautiful with the sun as the backdrop,wind turbines as far as the eye can see and some super wealthy company charging the citizens for the so called cause.....CLEAN ENERGY.Clap...clap....clap.
@@rickjeffjeff oh yeah they suck and they’re also really loud especially if it’s snowing- we’re hours from the nearest airport and yet it’ll sound like we’re right next to the runway
You can also see the excavators at the base digging it out.
Now you know why they call it "renewable energy". When the windmills assplode, you need a new one.
Not to mention used fiberglass blades, which supposedly cannot be recycled, and therefore they bury them at the landfills.
Green Energy my ass!
**wheeze** This is actually beyond true. Every "renewable" bullshit gets broken or damaged over time. Solarpanels do break as well. You basically save money to buy new panels.
@Sypaka you are saying this like coal, oil, and gas infrastructure also doesn’t get damaged. Notably all those times trains derailed and dumped coal everywhere. Or the times oil refineries blew up due to your beloved capitalist leaders neglecting safety standards. Or the time a certain oil rig had an oopsie and spilled oil absolutely everywhere. Or every single piece of mining equipment and oil/coal freighter and train which has to be repaired, maintained, and eventually replaced.
@someasiandude4797 you think the minerals in that EV you drive are eco-friendly?
At least coal and oil give us good, constant, reliable energy.
These things are fucking useless.
That black smoke is great for the environment.
I knew Greta was right.
Yeah, burning oil always does that.
Yeah, computer database systems leak sensitive information from time to time. Maybe we should get back to typewriters and exchanging letters.
LOOK! Turbine is smoke rings! Awesome 👍👍👍 what about fire ring by smoking turbine
@@GeoScifulmaybe then you'd be more careful and pay attention...
For those that don't know. Most of these are failing for thr same reason. The braking system to prevent them for spinning to fast is rarely needed. As a result they are prone to fail when it does get used.
Goldilocks windmills: only work when the wind is 'just right'.
They lose power because they are supposed to yaw 90* out of the direction of the wind when something happens
that isn't correct at all. I've been in the wind buisness since 2005.
All modern turbines use aerodynamic braking to emergency stop.
Ie: a command is sent to the pitch system to rapidly pitch all 3 blades to 90*
This will stop the rotor at full RPM in about 2-3 turns. The amount of drag 3 blades at 90* have is insane - it'll take a GE 1.5 rotor at over 40 tons and slow it down to less than idle speed in 2 turns of the rotor.
I've been up tower in a GE 1.5 that has Estopped on run up while troubleshooting a fault on more thannone occasion. (It's a pretty wild ride)
for a turbine to run away, the pitch system has to experience a catastrophic fault that prevents all 3 blades from pitching.
Or, somone who dosen't know what they are doing has to change certain parameters in the control system for the turbine, which can also prevent the aero braking scheme from triggering when the turbine goes into an overspeed condition.
The mechanical or magnetic brake is only used to stop a rotor when at idle - they aren't capable of stopping a 80,000 plus pound rotor assembly at full production RPM.
@mechanicman8687
That's not right either.
The yaw rate is pretty slow on these, and in terms of storm survival - it's better to keep the blades feathered, and the rotor into the wind.
A turbine will ALWAYS point into the wind when the yaw system is in auto, typically unless there is a problem with the onboard wind directional vane (and this happens occasionally the older mechanical vanes can get sticky and then the turbine can't find the wind. The newer ultrasonic vanes don't suffer from that failure, since the've no moving parts.) the turbine is ALWAYS in auto yaw when operating.
the only way to point it out of the wind is to log into the turbine remotely or physically go into the DTA and switch the yaw system to manual, and yaw it using commands or the yaw keyswitch. They won't do this automatically due to faults or storm shutdown.
So badly designed and shoddily built. Genius.
Wind turbines sure are funny.
If there's not enough wind they won't work.
If there's too much wind they won't work, and they might explode!
Haha
Nuclear Power propponents sure are funny.
The same thing happens with reactors and their cooling water.
These are mostly cheap over seas version of wind power. Improperly installed. They are supposed to go to zero blade pitch during storms. and have brake systems. Also fire suppression here in the USA. And I would much rather have a single wind turbine fail then a nuclear power plant or coal fire.
Depends on function, sometimes its not from wind.
Like a windmill got 2 mechanics stuck in the windmill and eventually got them killed just because of a short circuit, of course a short circuit happening on a windmill is not good.
Why would that be "funny"? That's true of pretty much everything. Eat too few calories, and you starve. Eat too many, and you get heart disease.
Aint so funny after seeing the bill. No wonder renewable become expensive. Kinda bitch slap jobs.
Ive heard of ppl having phobias of these things. I didn't think they were scary at all... Until I parked underneath one... And then looked straight up at the whirling blades... And heard them whooshing through the air... That was terrifying hahahaha
Those things scare the crap out of me, and that was long before I saw any of these "Wind turbine commits hari kari" videos. I swear they look like oversized Weeping Angels: blink just once, and you're dead.
If you were a bird or bat, you would be more than terrified at these blades of destruction.
@@earlysda Or you would just avoid flying into them. 😂
@@skaldlouiscyphre2453 Skald, how so?
@@earlysda Birds and bats, being capable of controlled flight are able to change the direction of their travel and thereby not strike objects.
Look how good they are for the enviroment.
The most entertaining video on UA-cam, I could watch turbines fly apart all day!
"I'll be there, I'll be there when the last turbine falls!" Maybe it was teardrop?
Nuclear energy is way safer and way cheaper. Way more efficient. Requires far less maintenance.
No
is that a joke
I'd rather big fans exploding video compilations than "50,000 people use to live here, now it's a ghost town"
@@dylanloomis6197 right 🤣
@@SynDoesStuff r/whoosh
2.5 million dollars wasted on a windmill that never will produce enough energy to pay for itself !
How many years of a windmills working to pay for it !
Before it's worn out and needs replacing again !
If only that money went into a nuclear plant
without government subsidies they wouldn't exist
@@samuelmatheson9655 exactly
For me it is seen as a lazy design, lazy manufacturing, bitch slapped construction without proper goverment support and oversight. Well they wasted their years.
It's not always about the money, Spider-Man
All of that black smoke is helping the green new deal...
Fukushima much better, dingledick?
and the wind claims... " Flawless Victory " !
Epic 😄
now i’m scared of wind turbines.
I’ve driven by them a few times, & im always watching for one to grenade.
Been scared 😱
Wind turbines should be video game bosses 😀
I’d be more afraid of the forced government compliance agenda pushing the zero emissions economy than the wind turbines if I were you.
Just stay out of the cutting radius and you'll be fine.
I bet that first wind turbine was just tired of all that spinning and had to lie down for a while.
Passed out
@@walter_248 Oh, poor wind turbine. 😓
@@johncheetham4607 I think the wind turbines in this video drank a little TOO MUCH. 😂😂😭😭
That first one was a controlled demolition, which is why there was an excavator near its base. They rigged it to just topple over.
The first turbine looked like it was being demolished.
There are not "funny" fails, there are ones you rejoice with.
Green energy at it's finest.
Some of the greatest filming I’ve seen in a long time,,, great stuff just love watching it… Yeah, and by the way, you’re absolutely Eco friendly
More green energy even more!!! )))
1:58 Those blades go insane far!
Y E E T
Fr
It’s a metaphor for all liberal aspirations.
There's nothing better than watching a wind turbine self destruct.
*strong wind blowing*
Turbine: MAXIMUM POWER! for like 8 seconds
Clean energy.
An oil rig can break and catch on fire yknow
I’m going in this field of study
Trees died for this
Have you seen what nuclear plants can do when they fail?
@@michaelgalindo6752 booooooooooooooommmmeeeerrrrrrrr
moral of the story : there are more windmill failures than you assume.
I'm so glad these are so environmentally safe.
Lol I watched one of these things start spitting flames a while back in Germany. Went from pretty cool to terrifying in about 1 second lol.
4:00 you can say, that escalated quickly
That turned upside down real quick
The first one had me dying! Just how it lumbers over and how loud the crash was! Haha it looked like it was perfectly fine too!
That one was actually getting demolished on purpose.
Yes, hilarious. All good in the hood.
Nothing says "safe and clean energy" like a giant, flaming blade being flung across a highway
The most unreliable source of energy around
Wind turbines are an eye sore, don’t mind seeing them break as long as no one is injured.
What's bigger of a eyesore is a sludge ponds spill from a coal power plant. 100+ miles toxic stew. Perhaps you would like to live by one.
Why is this the most entertaining video I’ve ever seen
0:41 people think that guy is stupid but he is honestly a mood.
Ох уж этот запах зеленой энергетики
Скорее холявной и простой
Там где зацепился парашютист, запах явно не зелёной и не энергии)))
And these are called "green jobs."
Everytime a wind turbine fails I laugh.
Lovely eco friendly smoke,just get the old bonfires going
Fanatics: "Wind turbines make good clean Co2 reduced energy"
Unless they start burning...
Add the impact of producing them vs what they actually produce.
2:29 it chopped itself in half 😬
That one looks edited
@@silviohausler999 it’s a realistic animation that people fell for
I know how large these blades are. Takes a very talented and well coordinated crew just to transport them out! I can't imagine how much force those bolts are holding when tehy spin out of control like that.
It's quite easy to calculate - it's a simple reverse dynamic solution.
Let's assume typical operation speed for wind turbine - with constant velocity, no deformation, constant mass and absolute isometry of the blades (I know, I know, stone me to death for these assumptions). Length of a wind turbine's blade is usually 50 meters - and our previous assumptions allow us to consider it a radius of track deformation. Speed of each tip of the blade is 300km/h, which calculates to 78m/s. Centripetal acceleration of tip of the blade in this case can be calculated by a single equation: a(m)=v²/r, which gives us 121,68m/s². Using assumption of isometry of the blade we can assume the mass of every infinitely small piece of the blade (assuming it only has one dimention) is 140kg/m. Let's assume, for the simplicity of our calculations, that we take into consideration a blade with length of 1m - which gives us mass of said averaged tip of the blade of 140kg.
We know acceleration, we know mass - so we can calculate force, using II Newton Law of Dynamics. It gives us F=17,04kN. That's the force on infinitely thin, infinitely non-deformable and infinitely isometric tip of the blade. The more variables you'd like to add, and the more you'd try to break these assumptions, the higher this force will be.
@@Admiral45-10 It was more rhetorical but thanks for the physics refresher haha.
1:14 the windmill is on fire 😂😂😂😂
Look at all that earth saving wind power
Wow look at all that clean environmentally friendly energy
If the left gets their way...Wind farms will be all over the place, making open spaces ugly to look at. Wind turbines will become like the ugly oil fields that sprung up all over the place at the start of the 20th century.
the future
Still cleaner than coal
Kite vs windturbine : I am thinking about, what the kiter felt in that moment. Making the best and final loop in his life
Anybody else notice that when the wind blows too hard failures increase?
It's due to the brakes malfunctioning, they have brakes and the ability to turn their blades in the event of high winds or storms, yet when the brakes fail is when they catch fire and self destruct given its unable to control its speed and temp.
it's called overspeed and it can be caused even by a sensor malfuntioning due to over temperature of the slipring, an electronic controller whoch regulates all the turbine sensors
CLEAN, EFFICIENT ENERGY!😅
Это вам зеленая энергетика, да будет свет! :)))
"Зелëная" энергетика, бессмысленная и беспощадная.
0:10
Jeremy Clarkson: "Oh Shit"
James May seconds later: "CLAAARKSOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!!!!!!!!!"
Clarkson, you infantile Pillock
It is so cool how these machines are like extensions of the operator's hands.
Ok the kite one got me that's funny as hell
A friend of mine's son tears down old wind mills once the tax advantages are gone,they are high maintenance!!!
Please tell us more about that. As far as I know most of them never run for their advertised lifespan but fail earlier...
@@BetterAircraftFabric So much for “green” energy. They have a huge carbon footprint to manufacture and broken blades will take thousands of years to decompose in a landfill.
@@paule4566 compared to the energy output yes they are considered cost effective that’s why multiple countries still continue to manufacture and use them.
In terms of a carbon footprint yes there is energy and materials required to make them but that literally applies to every form of infrastructure and energy including oil extraction rigs, transport pipelines, refineries, freight ships and gas trucks to transport refined petrol to gas stations…. Additionally, the copper, silicon, aluminum, fiber glass used to build the turbine and the electronic components are all recyclable, the US just doesn’t make much of an effort to do so. Furthermore turbines while they do indeed sometimes fail and break, oil rigs and other infrastructure related to petrol processing is actually more prone to damage and more costly to fix. The great gulf oil spill of 1991, the deep water horizon spill of 2010, the prestige oil spill of 2002, the keystone pipeline, all leaked thousands of gallons of crude oil into the ocean (some of which made it into areas used for U.S. fisheries). Lol the carbon footprint and environmental impact of the wind turbine industry does not even come close to the consequences brought on by non renewables like crude oil.
Ultimately if you want to cling onto the past and resist any effort the world makes to find more renewable energy alternatives then so be it.
This is lovely for the environment. Love the green energy plan.
Well all jokes aside when windmills don’t have anything wrong they sure can save lots of fossil fuels
A COEXIST sticker on a Prius will save us .
@@jayasmrmore3687 yeah they have some problems, intermittent energy production. If only the budget allotted to wind and solar cou be put toward nuclear we would be a lot better off not only in the green energy feild but possibly in cheap energy
@@jeffrey5464 any energy source will always have some disadvantage and some advantage
@@jayasmrmore3687 except for the fact that fossil fuels are used to make them, maintain them, and demolish them.
The fact that were seeing this many epic fails, you'd think they would come out with a better design.
Imagine being strapped to the very end of one of these blades as they're being pushed full speed by the wind.
Looks like some really clean green energy!
how dare you!!!
Every piece of machinery has failed, green or otherwise. A deliberate sample selecting nothing but fails tells you literally nothing of how well or bad they work.
@@anxiousearth680 you are right but in this case, it does. And by the way, these are far from "green". They are way worse in every way than using coal.
Hey since they're the future? does that mean we look forward to seeing more of these videos 😂🤣
How dare you?
@@yveslaflute9228 "How dare you?"
(Someone didn't do well in there English classes)
Doesn't match up with the context or delivery of my statement, so your not making any since by addressing my question with a question that suggests I issued an argumentative statement.
And with that you won't take up anymore of my time.
@@CmdCodd if your gonna school someone on grammar learn how to use the word there and its sense not since
@@sdmc1972 I used the speaker function and it screws up constantly.
I aced my English classes in college so I know that crap already but I'm busy at work. And so will be some what sloppy.
(You really needed the attention I guess, so I gave you some... But now I'm done with you as well).
@@CmdCodd cool excuse
Very satisfying to watch
I love how you say fails then immediately show a controlled demolition
This first clip is an intentional demolition.
The first one wasn't scary.
Green energy fans to wind turbines:
"Some of you may die, but that's the sacrifice I'm willing to make...!"
I give a toast every time one of these is toasted.
And they call this green and environmentally friendly 😂😂😂😂😂
Windmill with bonus - heat energy.😂
we had a lot in mid Wales and were told they automatically feather if the wind is above of below a certain speed , to prevent just such an accident 1
Yes this is normal behaviour. They start braking down and even the blades rotate themselves from the wind away to minimize the area where wind can make the blades continue move
For those who don't know it, wind turbine speed is regulated not by the air but by mechanical brakes. the wind can spin them out of control as you saw on the video. The only thing that stops it from doing that is the brake system. There is a "speed limit" for the RPM depending on the materials, size and power output. when the brake system fails, the turbine goes out of control and as soon high speed winds come, you get what you saw. if you live near such turbines, keep an eye on them on high speed winds, if any of them are going faster than the rest, you better call the local authorities and be ready for a disaster.
I’d rather see funny wind turbine failures than tragic oil rig failures.
My man paragliding..... I hope he survived that wind turbine attack....
Right? Why are more people not talking about that one. Is that guy alive?
It takes a mentally challenged individual to fly that close to a giant propeller. He deserved everything he got
Возле каждого вентилятора надо поставить полицейского и штрафовать вентиляторы за превышения скорости)))
The average person probably has no idea the amount of stress put on those blade roots while spinning. The centrifugal force being exerted is insane.
it's hard to tell how big these wind turbines are but just saying you can clearly see them from the top height you'll be in an airplane😲😲
If you haven’t seen the blades transported from an oversized road truck trailer, then you don’t know how insanely large they are
@@spidermonk3uVvwy8-2 ikr
Welcome to the future of green energy... It looks very bright, dosent it😅
Brighter than my future
Hahahahahah
Ahhhh....
Saving the planet one turbine at a time.Ahhh the carcinogens!!
I just love green energy production 😂
Looks like a good industry to be in , lots of maintenance work and full rebuilds
Yes we definitely need these...
The first footage (windmill falls down) was a controlled fall. The windmill already taken out of service before for dismolished.
I would still consider it a fail, because the turbine did not look that old. So many turbines being torn down that were only a few years old, while nuke and coal power plants run for decades. But that's just my opinion.
@@pbrstreetgang5314 It looks very old actually. Seems to be a Tacke TW 1.5i, which were usually built in the late 1990s. Just because the turbine looks well maintained doesn't mean it's not over 20 years old. The time it takes to build a single nuclear/coal plant is also significantly higher than it would take to build a hundred wind turbines.
Also, I bet the turbine was replaced with a much more powerful modern turbine, this is called "re-powering" and therefore this is definitely not a fail.
@@SkullRaven But a nuke power plant is the most efficient source for electricity and will produce more power longer than those wind turbines..
@@pbrstreetgang5314, it was a controlled take down. We where reading it, also here in the local news. Im Dutch.
Looks like clean energy to me
The whole world got power for a second there 😂