400 gallons of oil in the gear box and 1,300 in the ground level transformer, that sure will be good for the water / environment when they have problems. They are thinking of putting 50 wind turbines between Buffalo, NY and Cleveland, Ohio. These are not as green as they want you to think

No. 9 - the generator went of line leaving the blades free wheeling with no load. The controls should have feathered the blades and used the brakes to stop rotation. Imagine how many failures there have been that weren't caught on camera!

@jacksimpson-rogers1069

4 ай бұрын

Wind powered electric generators, when they work, are quite marvelously cunning, and require great cleverness of design, and first class materials. It is a very sad shame that such cleverness should be wasted on something as fickle as the wind. But one of the not-quite-obvious facts is that wind-driven electric generators serve a few million power on-off switches far less well that the sails of a schooner do for a skipper who wants to get from here to there on an ocean. Are not our "Renewable energy" folk aware that fossil solar ousted "recent" or "direct" solar more than a century ago?

@ErikWayne

Ай бұрын

​@@jacksimpson-rogers1069😮😮😮😮😅

@Mozart1220

20 күн бұрын

Shall we post some vids of Deepwater Horizon?

@joewoodchuck3824

3 күн бұрын

Throughout many industries engineers know how to design things that don't break. But then the bean counters come in and start cheapening the designs. That's where the problems begin.

I like how when he was talking about the recyclable components, he didn't say anything about the blades. Which are largely composite and can't be recycled. They're disposed of by digging a long, deep hole and shoving them in. Someone else's problem for another time.

@Evo836

10 ай бұрын

Yes so much for recyclable for the 'greens' as I worked for a company that restored gearbox's to reuse.

@cliffords2315

10 ай бұрын

Yea this was a Political Video,

@user-xj9vv9tv2o

9 ай бұрын

um, they can be recycled. They can be ground up and mixed with concrete or asphalt in building products to bind the base material.

@038Dude

9 ай бұрын

Yeah and that totaly justifies the insane effort, expense and actual damage to the enviroment that these extrotion mills generate. The fact that they can be ground up....

@wun1gee

9 ай бұрын

@@038Dude Note that he didn't tell you that this isn't an industry-standard thing, it's one start-up company that claims they can make concrete stronger by using specific parts of the wind turbine blades. Their claims have yet to be proven and no engineer I've ever known would want to introduce a foreign element into their concrete... Especially one that is known for delaminating...

You are wrong about the recycling: When wind farms reach their life spans (15 to 20 years) the old small generators are no longer wanted as new larger ones are more profitable(tongue in cheek as wind farms are NOT profitable and have to be subsidized!!) So the old ones are torn down, new larger concrete blocks put in the ground, new larger taller towers attached, and new larger generators and blades installed. Nothing of the old unit is worth recycling except perhaps the copper in the generator and even that may be too labor intensive to do as it has to be removed and melted down and re-extruded. Blades never last for the "life of the whole unit because the leading edges of the fiberglass blades deteriorate in about 8 years and have to be replaced! There is no good scenario here: these things are capital intensive and high maintenance, no recycling, and the ground on which a wind farm sits is usually leased at premium rates from the owners!! Again, wind energy is not free, it is so expensive that it has to be subsidized. Wind is capricious, so if you want an average of lets say 100 MW output, you have to build a farm with a capacity of 400 MW (because the average production is 25% of capacity). Can you imagine building a coal or NG power plant with a 400 MW capacity (which it can produce 24/7 350 days per year) and then throttling it back to a max of 100MW?!! The Power company would say that is crazy, and it is, but they don't say it about wind!! Furthermore the coal or NG plants can produce their power any time you want it. Wind farms are at the mercy of when the wind blows and that does not always coincide with demand!

@atfstransformations7023

7 ай бұрын

Useless information for a 17 year old girl for me :/

@Hogger280

7 ай бұрын

@@atfstransformations7023 It is useful to stop people from believing the Lie of "Green Energy" - it is nothing more than a new religion that is destructive, not only environmentally, but to society and prosperity in general!

@ProwerTheFox7

6 ай бұрын

Thank you generic Facebook boomer. Return from whence you came.

@icosthop9998

6 ай бұрын

TY @Hogger280 👍 Many *"Green🟢People"* can not handle the Truth ❕️

@doonhamer252

6 ай бұрын

Truth

Clean energy, filthy damage. They're an absolute blight on the surrounding countryside, in my opinion.

@terryrussel3369

11 ай бұрын

They do not last as long as promised nor do they produce anything close to what we need. They vibrate and make annoying sounds. Not just anyone can and will work on them to test and maintain them. They kill wildlife at a pace hard to believe and in many cases for which we peons would be arrested, fined and/or jailed.

@marktwain2053

11 ай бұрын

They aren't the saving grace they're touted to be!

@georgevavoulis4758

11 ай бұрын

Nothing about them is usable or recyclable . If you're going to use wind energy use a small turbine about 3feet in Dia Eter on a small farm and not these giant mechanical monstrosity

@robanderson473

11 ай бұрын

@@georgevavoulis4758 I know of those ones, I've seen a couple that look like a small jet engine stuck on a pole and rotating when the wind is blowing. Basically an updated version of the traditional wind pump types one sees at a farmstead.

@shadrach6299

11 ай бұрын

I think they look scary

Yes , all of that is keeping the planet GREEN !!!!!

10:50 --- oh the sweet sweet irony EIGHT HUNDRED GALLONS OF OIL in a wind turbine!! HAHHAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!

I love seeing them self distruct.

I don’t think controlled demolition should be in a list of failures.

@fukhue8226

20 күн бұрын

There are a lot more Nuclear Meltdowns in the world than the 3 you know about.

@daxtontheweird

13 күн бұрын

@@fukhue8226tf this got to do with wind turbines

There used to be a discipline that took every possibility for everything that could go wrong and took the time to figure out how to avoid these disasters. That discipline was called engineering.

@byteme11

4 ай бұрын

When you've got idiots like the australian energy minister pushing for wind and solar like there's no tomorrow, engineering is an inconvenience that his ideology can do without.

@cfierle

4 ай бұрын

The guy filming the railroad crossing gets the who can say "OH MY GOD" the most times Award.

@loschwahn723

4 ай бұрын

@@cfierle look behind the fan - they are slower on a hang - it was destroyed by getting power from the line

@jamesm6638

3 ай бұрын

And now everyone hires for diversity instead of skill

Imagine all the fails that weren't caught on camera 😂

@guillermoelnino

9 ай бұрын

then they would be called crazy co nspi racy th eories.

@wildbill6976

8 ай бұрын

might be a few more in the gulf of mexico in a day or two...

@johnwalker1471

8 ай бұрын

How many non-failures are caught on camera?

@chris76-01

8 ай бұрын

@@johnwalker1471 nobody cares about seeing things go properly. Lol.

@guillermoelnino

8 ай бұрын

@@johnwalker1471 How many non-questions do you ask a day?

I would prefer that old turbines come down to make way for something functional as an energy source, rather than another pointless pat yourself on the back for saving the planet icon.

@ursulasmith6402

3 ай бұрын

All this nonsense comes from the Green party from Germany and the European union.

I was waiting for the #1 clip to be of the turbine that caught on fire with the 2 guys still trapped on top of it. To this day, it's still one of the most tragic, saddest clips I've ever seen of a turbine failure. The fear, the horror and the eventual despair those two men must have felt, trapped up there, knowing there was nothing in the world that could save them...... so incredibly sad.

@Chris_at_Home

11 ай бұрын

I used to do tower work for communications and the idea of being inside one of these has no appeal to me. We were even trained in going off the tower repelling down, hooking on a stranded coworker playing unconscious and then lowering us both to the ground. We all had to do this. It can be a quick escape.

@gordonschedel368

11 ай бұрын

You’re exactly right those wind turbines are very dangerous, and I don’t think they’re a good idea at all they’re killing birds are killing a livestock, and they’re actually killing people

@robanderson473

11 ай бұрын

It's a pity they couldn't get a helicopter to winch them off.

@lincroyableprocrastinateur5414

11 ай бұрын

I think about that every time I see a windfarm, it just makes me so sad.

@borleyboo5613

11 ай бұрын

And you see them hugging each other either for comfort or to say ‘goodbye’. It’s horrifying and, as you say, very, very sad.

I lived on Fort Huachuca from 2013-2018. That wind turbine never ran while I was there. It never worked. Also, it was on the fort, but outside the cantonment area. Also, Fort Huachuca, unlike the rest of Southern Arizona doesn't get that hot due to the elevation. It seldomly hits 100°

@Minimumpilot

9 ай бұрын

°F.😢

@2ndfloorsongs

8 ай бұрын

Of course it didn't run, it didn't have enough blades.

@dougtheslug6435

4 ай бұрын

Well then you got no worries getting cancer.

@orvalaltwasser505

4 ай бұрын

Want to get your eyes opened with wind power. Go to Palm Springs. We’ve been there four times in the past. There’s a wind farm just outside of Palm Springs. Every time we go to see the turbines, there has never been more than 30-40 % of them operating. The rest are being repaired!

@patriciahogan4705

3 ай бұрын

Millions wasted.

Really good for the environment, the massive amount of concrete to anchor them, the energy that goes into making and mining all the copper and other metals needed, the chemicals to make the fiberglass blades the amount of oil needed to operate them, the fact that the blades can't be recycled, yep real environmentally friendly.

@eastcoastandy2905

8 ай бұрын

Yep, just like your good old motor car.

@billgrandone3552

8 ай бұрын

How mant trees do we cut down each year for poles. How many gallons of creosote (an oil derivative) goes into preservatives to keep them insect free. How much coal has to be mined , transported by rail and truck and thwn chushed to powder and burned and what becomes of the ash? How many miles of railroad track has to be laid and maintained to deliver that coal or oil. How much steel goes into high power lines not to mention the copper and other metals needed to transport the electricity.

@2ndfloorsongs

8 ай бұрын

It usually takes them one to two years to become carbon neutral, after that it's all gravy.

@markklausen813

8 ай бұрын

Oh, yeah, and coal-fired or nuclear powerplants cost nothing to build and last forever.

@billgrandone3552

8 ай бұрын

No shit! Really? The POINT i am makeing here is that wooden poles that still deliver electric power also use a lot of natural resources and oil and chemicals. But in the near future in case you have not been tuned in, these may be replaced by underground systems like cable is now.@@gretchenk.2516

A massive windmill made of steel and fiberglass that is a blight on the countryside, shreds birds, and has to be rebuilt every 20 years really doesn't seem all that green.

@coreywilson701

8 ай бұрын

I hate birds

@user-jq2rf4nf3o

8 ай бұрын

Move@@coreywilson701

@sophiaherschel567

8 ай бұрын

i hate birdhaters@@coreywilson701

@SteelheadTed

8 ай бұрын

And is full of gallons of oil that has to be change regularly.

@coreywilson701

8 ай бұрын

Changing oil is easy. Used oil heats my house and garage

12:38 No, the blades can't be recycled. They are composite carbon and fiberglass over balsa or foam core. the blades are chopped to somewhat manageable sections and hauled off to be buried in the desert. The carbon fiber and fiberglass are petrochemical products. Thousands of gallons of petrochemical products per blade.

@chipsawdust5816

9 ай бұрын

But but but ... GREEN! In someone's government-subsidized dreams anyway. Solindra anyone? Same concept.

@user-hi3vr2wz5c

4 ай бұрын

Renewable Energy is non-renewable, go figure. Rape if the earth create all these pseudo renewables. Rich people getting richer.

@Mozart1220

20 күн бұрын

Yes, they can. You need to catch up.

India should also try to be a world leader in holding its rivers clean

@AyeCarumba221

11 ай бұрын

It would be nice if they would be a world leader and trying to keep their population in check. Does anybody on this planet think that 1.2 billion people is sustainable? I don’t care how clean your rivers are.

@GrrMeister

11 ай бұрын

@williamstanford7994

11 ай бұрын

Not to mention keeping it in their pants.

@stephenrothwell8142

11 ай бұрын

Ooh, political. 😎😁😊👍🤗😎

@stephenrothwell8142

11 ай бұрын

​@@williamstanford7994 oh my fucking god. Wow. Mate I love your reply. It's brutally honest. I nearly had a fucking stroke when I read it. Truth is truth though. Take care matey 😎😎😎😎

Imagine all the fails that weren't caught on camera . I had never realized how gigantic these things are ! SCARY !.

@halffast7799

4 ай бұрын

Very noisy eyesores. I live a mile from a wind farm. Lots of birds die every day.

@user-hi3vr2wz5c

4 ай бұрын

They are montrously large and extremely noisy and terrible for the birds and environment at both ends of the production line. Rape of the earth and ridicjliusly expensive. They coukd build 2 nuclear power plants for the price of one medium sized windfarm.

@Mozart1220

20 күн бұрын

@@halffast7799 OH stop already. No one buys that bullshit.

this video had my head spinning, or was that just the blades.

Do politicians still get kick back $ if wind mill fails?

@robertbutler8004

4 ай бұрын

@Krystalstarrett6760 They would have already cashed their cheque.

@pravoslavn

3 ай бұрын

Yeah ... 10% for the Big Guy !

Wonder just how many AREN'T caught on Camera ?

The oil that these things use for lubrication has to be replaced once a year - and is made from crude!

@brianredmond4919

3 күн бұрын

So how much energy would that oil have produced ? = about 1 days output from the turbine.

Who would have ever thought each wild mill turbine would have 800 gallons of oil in them. Wow now we know were all the extra oil went to.

@Mozart1220

20 күн бұрын

Stop already.

The blades are not recyclable they just bury them and hope for the best. Very good for the environment I think.

@stephenmcdonagh2795

11 ай бұрын

And they cut great swathes of migrating birds to pieces. Every turbine is a failure of governments appeasing moronic environmentalists.

@user-bu7jl6zy5d

11 ай бұрын

I doubt that's a universal practice---especially in the USA, the UK and Western Europe.

@betsybattles2696

11 ай бұрын

@@user-bu7jl6zy5d it is universal practice, there are blade graveyards in every country using turbines. The US has several. The blades are fiberglass which is non recyclable.

@FortisRising

11 ай бұрын

They’ve actually found several ways to recycle them, a lot of it starts by cutting them up into sections that can be repurposed, art, benches, etc. They’ve even started making bridges out of the materials.

@hivdetective7229

11 ай бұрын

In total, about 80 to 90 percent of the components in a dismantled plant, i.e., metals, the electrical system, the foundations and the tower, can be returned to recycling cycles. The remaining 10 to 20 percent of the old plant will be disposed of properly.

Really makes you think why you've never seen such an accident on TV...

@rocketamadeus3730

8 ай бұрын

I just searched "turbine failure news" and there's plenty of TV coverage.

@Look_What_I_Did

8 ай бұрын

Television loves to post failures. I bet you are on at least one failure piece yourself.

@dougtheslug6435

4 ай бұрын

Lol....ya ok, they've all been on TV.

@jamesbarbour8400

3 ай бұрын

Because to show such a thing to the masses would put a blight on the message the powers that be want to brainwash the masses with ! Can't have anyone knowing the truth about these things, can we - that just wouldn't do !

The amount of steel, concrete and copper in a windmill makes you question how *clean* they are

@nunyabidness674

9 ай бұрын

think it's more a case of the lesser of two evils. The paint alone on those is some evil stuff.

@carbonized5114

9 ай бұрын

They aren't, the blades in particular aren't even close to what you would call recyclable, meaning you spend just as much as you would to make a new one but you only get back a fraction of the materials used and still have to actually remake the new ones. Recycling in general is just not very efficient and very expensive. Not saying ** it do whatever either, need something better.

@viperdemonz-jenkins

9 ай бұрын

not clean at all.

@wazza33racer

9 ай бұрын

they only pay back over their 25 year life time the amount of energy used to make them, transport and install them. Its fossil fuel energy pretending to be "green".

@Tom-dt4ic

9 ай бұрын

That comment makes me question how intelligent you are.

Quick question…how many natural gas-powered electrical plants self-destruct in high winds?

@joejones4172

8 ай бұрын

Um I give up. How many/

@Heroesbleed

8 ай бұрын

@@joejones4172 None

What about the acres of fiberglass blades that can't be reused, or recycled?

@Morpheus187

8 ай бұрын

What about nuclear fuel rods that are spent? What do you do with those?

@tarpanc34

8 ай бұрын

@@Morpheus187 most likely dumped in the ocean far far away...lol

@emperor_rat

7 ай бұрын

​@@tarpanc34Salt mines

@dougtheslug6435

4 ай бұрын

They're shredding them up and mixing them in concrete now.

@brianredmond4919

3 күн бұрын

Why so concerned about that when we dump tons of other stuff everyday ?.

I had never realized how gigantic these things are ! SCARY !

@timandcharityduey6448

11 ай бұрын

The Vestas V150 has been in use since 2019. It has a rotor diameter of 492 feet (150 meters) and a tower (hub) height of 344.5’ - 544.6 feet (105-166 meters) depending on location of turbines determines which height is more appropriate. So your ground to tip height can range from 585’ to 785’ tall. The tip of the blade travels at an average speed of 65.62 feet per second. In some areas they can be placed within 1000 feet of a neighboring home, not their property line. They are not quiet like a dishwasher. And the pressure from a turbine actually causes the lungs of bats to explode. A wind generator has a generous maximum efficiency of rated capacity at 42% (generates less than 42% of the time).

@stoater1551

11 ай бұрын

It's high time these ridiculous wind turbines were scrapped completely. They are useless.

@PoojaPandey-eq4ol

10 ай бұрын

They are my worst nightmare!! I see a turbine on the highway and I take a U-turn, I dont care if anyone says im a scaredy cat but these are warnings of how dangerous these terrifying,haunting gigantic things are! But I also know that we need turbines all over the world to produce energy! So lets not judge these things too.

@gdavis8588

9 ай бұрын

In the next year or two I’ll be surrounded by the monstrosities. I despise wind turbines and my former neighbors/friends who signed up for them. I love the videos where the turbines fall over.

I have a "wind farm " I have one 1/4 mile east of me. Noise pollution, and flicker is bothersome.

I remember in the 80s or 90s there was a piece of video that showed large birds getting whacked by each blade of one. Between Carmel and Interstate 5 along Hwy 41 and 46.

@pentaoxide6853

7 ай бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/nYCG082cmqicnps.htmlsi=kXI_-b7leqvB2Am5 the destroyed wind turbine

I shudder to think how much that turbine blade that got destroyed by the train cost the truck driver or his company, not to mention the hospital bill for the train workers

No. 2 ....So they only got seven years of service for their $2.8 million turbine. Curious to know whether it produced $400,000 worth of electricity per year to break even. The ones on the wind farms are bigger and much more expensive, and they are replacing them after 20 years or less. How is that supposed to be SUSTAINABLE?

@twc9000

11 ай бұрын

When they say "sustainable," they mean sustainable income for certain companies and politicians.

@Matthew-ix1mq

11 ай бұрын

Because they produce sufficient energy to replace themselves

@Happybidr

10 ай бұрын

Another of the great myths from the environmental movement. From one green journal, “although conservation projects often fail, those failures are seldom covered in the literature. Out of more than 4,000 studies examined about the success or failure of conservation projects, only 59 - less than 1.5 percent - contained any amount of detail about why a project failed."

@marcushull12

10 ай бұрын

the whole green agenda is a con .

@rayking3466

10 ай бұрын

@@Matthew-ix1mq How? Not without govt. subsidies. Each one of those would have to produce enough electricity to power a medium sized town every year to break even. If they were that efficient, why do we need so many of them? One of those "farms" in each state should be enough to power that state...as long as the wind blows the correct amount, and it doesn't get too cold for the fins to operate without snapping. such an inefficient way to generate electricity.

2.7 million dollar windmill that supplied 300 homes for 7 years. That’s 107$ per month for each home. I highly doubt that it consistently provided enough juice for 300 homes and would probably cut that number in half which doubles its cost per home to over 200$ a month. Doesn’t sound like it makes much sense financially. But that’s the whole idea… green equals big green dollars

Always funny to see how something going exactly as planned is still called a failure.

@plantfeeder6677

9 ай бұрын

When the plan is a failure, the shoe fits.

@plantfeeder6677

9 ай бұрын

And the 31 people who voted your suicide pact up. Good luck if olie is right. You'll need it.

@ferrumignis

8 ай бұрын

If you plan to fail and you do fail, then it's a success.

@olli1068

8 ай бұрын

@@ferrumignis... and not everything that falls fails.

@ferrumignis

8 ай бұрын

@@olli1068 Not everything that doesn't fall is a success.

I love watching those things fail, they’re monstrosities, and not all that green.

@tufalike1796

11 ай бұрын

correct!

This is the visual representation of HUBRIS.

Tell me, how much energy does it take to manufacture a working turbine? And how many years does a turbine need to run for to recoup the energy it took to make it and erect it?

@neiltwaterhouse

Күн бұрын

The term is called EROI, "energy returned on investment", and the figure for wind turbines is ~25x energy returned over energy invested. Given a turbine should last 20 years or so, it makes back its "energy invested" in under a year. So they make sense to build in areas where that holds true. (ie windy places)

And what about the toxic dust or smoke when those turbines go?

These huge windmills are not recycled here in Texas. They are usually buried. In other places there are graveyards for them. They are not recyclable.

@GhostK-cx9fq

5 ай бұрын

800 gal in gear,& another 1000,in transformer wow

@jamesm6638

3 ай бұрын

What are they made of? you would think that metal could be reused...

They never tell you that it takes more money to make a windmill than the windmill will ever put out in it's life time of use .

@AdrianMidgley

6 ай бұрын

Certainly honest people don't.

Here in Brazil, the propellers of wind turbines are able to rotate on their own axis, so in storms they assume a null position and thus the turbine stops rotating to avoid accidents.

@lynncarden

8 ай бұрын

Hahaha....wouldn't it been better not mowing down all the trees . .you know what mother nature put on the planet to make what we breathe...you know AIR???

@hegeliandetective1034

8 ай бұрын

Tell that to Bill Gates, he and others want to cut and bury 70 million trees@@lynncarden

@lostsoul1813

8 ай бұрын

I would expect it would be a common sense technical desicion...

@makattak3550

4 ай бұрын

​@@lostsoul1813decision makes more sense.

@richardc7721

4 ай бұрын

They all have shaft brake systems and the newer ones the blades can be turned just like airplane props which is called "feathering" the prop, however they can and do fail resulting in the loss of the tower.

FYI--- The turbine blades aren't recyclable, they're fiberglass.

@robertpowell7672

8 ай бұрын

Yes they do. Fuel for cement factory

I have to laugh at the term clean energy. Sorta like the environmentally friendly lithium mines for EV's.

You cannot recycle fibre glass which they make the blades out of that end up in landfills! 🤨

@tufalike1796

11 ай бұрын

exactly, it's all a huge scam. Not to mention the pollution it makes to build them!

"Green energy, man!" "800 gallons of oil......"

Wait….he said the reason there was such a fire was that there was 800 GALLONS OF OIL IN THE GEARBOX!

Ah, I never expected to see the Ft. Huachuca turbine. I worked on Ft. Huachuca and lived in Sierra Vista nearly 25 years. I drove and rode my bike past this turbine daily after it was constructed....we moved from there about a year or so after it was constructed.....we lived literally right down the road from there.

@coloradomountainman8659

10 ай бұрын

So?

@plantfeeder6677

9 ай бұрын

Ride over and pull them down. Don Quantumiote.

@Smedley1947

8 ай бұрын

Someone else on here who was stationed there said it never once ran. Is that true?

@douglasgriswold2533

7 ай бұрын

@@coloradomountainman8659 So what is YOUR point, Einstein? I have a connection with it, you apparently don't.

@richardc7721

4 ай бұрын

​@@Smedley1947in the time I was there I was told it never produced electric power.

With all those fires that’s what I really call. Clean energy. Great job guys keep up the great work.

@NihongoGuy

11 ай бұрын

$2m for seven years' generation? Clean energy is, apparently VERY expensive electricity. If not for federal tax dollars, none of these would be going up.

@OtisFlint

11 ай бұрын

Ah yes, because rare fires are comparable to deliberately burning fuels for electricity.

@ptownRandy1

11 ай бұрын

@@NihongoGuy Except by those astute business folks who realize that solar and wind is cheaper and the costs are more predictable than oil prices. I just bet you folks miss all those smokestacks and soot from fossil fuels.

@PhilOsGarage

11 ай бұрын

You know fossil fuel power stations require constant fire to work, don’t you?

@ptownRandy1

11 ай бұрын

Hey, Abe boy, when was the last time your heard about a wind turbine fire. Then, divide the number of know fires with the number of turbines. Love your misinformation or alternative facts. Great job, keep up the great work.

I love how wind turbines don't like wind

Essex county in Ontario, Canada has a lot of wind turbines. If you ever pay attention to them if you're driving through the area, approximately 1/3 of them have burn marks all over them on the blades as well as around the gearbox.

@littlepaulps

4 ай бұрын

Probably oil from the seals seeping out, I see the same on a windfarm near me

@jacksimpson-rogers1069

4 ай бұрын

It is particularly an abomination that supposed "liberals" (I'm one myself) in Ontario do not get it that their CanDU reactors are vastly less environmentally injurious that these dangerous bird-slaughtering engines.

I'm impressed by your pronunciation of "Aarhus" Denmark... wow, spot on ! Fun fact: Denmark houses the largest wind turbine producer in the world, Vestas.

@tuvelat7302

11 ай бұрын

He got Fort Huachuca right, too.

@bobhopless

11 ай бұрын

Its not a real person. Its an AI voice and script. ​ @Tuvela T

@timholstpetersen79

11 ай бұрын

@@bobhopless No. YOU are an AI.

My 1st like is for the narrator.....2nds for the epic content 🎉❤

the windmill doubles the terewa 260 plots, which required 300 tons or iron ore and 170 tons of coking coal, all of which are mined, transported and produced with hydrocarbons. The part holds 700 gallons (~2700 liters) of oil and hydraulic fluid, and like cars, these must be changed at the mills from 9 o'clock. People like to love the idea that we can run happily in the sunshine and wind on our own, but with a trillion dollar mythical mega-batteries, one can run while it breaks down over and over again and never gets as much back as what was invested in building it.

Now that is quality you can trust on a frozen night.

And just where do you suppose that over a thousand gal per tower went when that thing hit the ground??

@MorganOtt-ne1qj

10 ай бұрын

Bloop bloop bloop. Into the ground. Keeps the weeds down that way.

@KenKay55

5 ай бұрын

Same place all the millions of gallons spewed out into the ocean when the BP Deepwater Horizon exploded.

The train driver must have felt satisfied for his good deed for the day.

@jerkyturkey007

3 ай бұрын

The law says there are only two ways a train can be at fault for an accident. 1. If the crossing signals malfunctioned. 2. If the train left the track.

"OH MY GOD,OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD". Very intelligent.

done 180 but 250 is an whole other world. great work.

Not to mention, wind turbine parts are buried in the ground like solar panels when they're no longer of use.

The trouble is that the entire wind turbine industry is unprofitable, the companies are being propped-up with middle-class CO2 taxes and with this 'cheap' and 'easily' acquired money provided without question, the safety rules are fairly sloppy especially with the train collision.

@don-cw1yz

11 ай бұрын

In other words, the wind turbines run on subsidies and not wind.

@Ernst12

11 ай бұрын

@@don-cw1yz Take away the subsidies and the entire scam will collapse instantly. This happened already with CST (Concentrated Solar Thermal) systems in Spain and California when the GFC struck and the investors just left the infrastructure to rot and walked away. So much of the choice between money and saving the earth from climate change right?

I have an irrational fear of these damn things. So what do I do? Reinforce that fear with videos like these, of course!

@trkstatrksta8410

3 ай бұрын

Your fear is not irrational. It's real and we should all be scared

All I ever saw was higher power bills,even with solar.Worst part is they are nothing but an eyesoar.

I'm missing something, I guess. How were the planned demolitions in several of these examples "failures"?

@timandcharityduey6448

11 ай бұрын

My guess is that they were included in the failures because they didn’t last the full 20 years that they are alleged to last.

@ethanlamoureux5306

11 ай бұрын

They are failures because most power plants last 50 years or more, but these are lucky to last 20 and then they're totally garbage, worth nothing except for scrap. And even then they produce so little useful energy in their short lifespan, one must wonder why bother. What a waste of money and resources! Nothing "green" about it, it's a big scam.

@MorganOtt-ne1qj

10 ай бұрын

I agree. Planned demo isn't failure. Except for life expectancy.

@coloradomountainman8659

10 ай бұрын

This A-hole poster is famous for using "click bait".

@ferrumignis

8 ай бұрын

@@timandcharityduey6448 Exactly right. Unless these have reached their 20/25 year life expectancy then it's a premature failure.

These monstrosities are an ugly blot on the landscape! If we must have them (I am unconvinced), at least put them well out to sea, out of sight. This video, of some coming down, brought me great joy!

@doonhamer252

5 ай бұрын

Putting them in the sea been proven to negativly affect the fish stock habbit, it's happened in Scotlands Solway Firth never mind the migration of transiting waterbird and over in Denmark

Whether we like it or not, "Clean energy" has an impact on our lives.

All of those black, smokey fires look great for the environment !

Here we are, 2023, & we , as it is clearly apparent, are dumber than ever.

Boy can I relate to 9&10! The 1KW turbine I *had* in my backyard (yeah, tiny in comparison to these) went buh-bye when the winds here got really crazy one night. Snapped one blade off, which resulted in a massive balance upset. It snapped the 2-1/2" steel pipe, throwing it all to the ground leaving nothing but the blade hub. Found a blade chunk about 60ft away. Luckily it missed hitting my shop as it came down, and it "aimed" for the open backyard.

@paulbrouyere1735

11 ай бұрын

Home grown windturbine?

@DrFiero

11 ай бұрын

@@paulbrouyere1735 - other than the tower, no. Was an IstaBreeze (not a super cheap Vevor etc!). I'm going to try making my own vertical blade unit from the remnants though. Not much to loose at this point.

@paulbrouyere1735

11 ай бұрын

@@DrFiero great! I’m curious and also working on basic principles of a VAWT

@larryt4884

10 ай бұрын

Good thing it did not make a hole in your roof.

@DrFiero

10 ай бұрын

@@larryt4884 - tell me about it!! There was about 110* (of the 360) where it would have gone through 1 of 2 roofs/walls. and about the same where flying chunks would have hit the 'solar farm'. Got lucky I guess.

The blades go to a landfill because they can't be recycled.

@robertpowell7672

8 ай бұрын

Saw a vid where they are ground up and used for fuel in a cement factory.

@pentaoxide6853

7 ай бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/nYCG082cmqicnps.htmlsi=kXI_-b7leqvB2Am5 the destroyed wind turbine

@pentaoxide6853

7 ай бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/nYCG082cmqicnps.htmlsi=kXI_-b7leqvB2Am5 the destroyed wind turbine

When they are working right, they are ok but when something goes wrong, just absolutely terrifying...... Lived in Germany for a while and had some turbines close, one night, I woke to use the rest room to a smell similar to burning electronics. I caught something out of the corner of my eye in the window and there was a turbine engulfed in flames. Looked like a wheel of fire with melting pieces falling to the gound. Made the field catch fire and the FD had to come put it out.

@pentaoxide6853

7 ай бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/nYCG082cmqicnps.htmlsi=kXI_-b7leqvB2Am5 the destroyed wind turbine

That last one, #1, I swear that turbine falls down _exactly_ like one of those *crazy, incredible, wild & waving, flailing & inflatable tube guys* you see at car lots, grand openings, and go-kart tracks. It was pretty comical. 😁😄😆😄😆😄😆

@robanderson473

11 ай бұрын

🤣Yeah, like in Family Guy! The whacky wavey flailing...oh I can't think of the damn thing the 'ad' says, but you know the one! 😁

@twirlgirl2286

11 ай бұрын

@@robanderson473 Yeah, I was trying to say the Family Guy one, but like you said, I couldn't remember the whole thing, bwahahahaha! 🤣😂🤣

@twirlgirl2286

11 ай бұрын

@@robanderson473 The wild & whacky, wavy, flailing, incredible, inflatable tube guy? Could that be close? 😄😆🤣😆😄😂

@robanderson473

11 ай бұрын

@@twirlgirl2286 Yep, that'll do! Cheers 🤣👍 Good stuff!

The blades cannot be recycled yet and are buried in landfills. The average lifespan of a turbine is 12 years

@timandcharityduey6448

11 ай бұрын

Yes! With blades being replaced between 3-7 years after initial installation.

@PhilOsGarage

11 ай бұрын

Neither of those are true.

@nathangregory9002

9 ай бұрын

Or dropped in oceans

@chipsawdust5816

9 ай бұрын

@@PhilOsGarage Then tell us the truth, Phil.

Last I checked, copper is mined...polymer resins for blades is oil....iron ore for structure is mined....electronic circuit boards are plastics from oil....the rock for base is mined... The 5 million $$$$ crane is made from mined steel built in a heated & lit shop by workers driving to work...BUT what do I know.... I haven't even mentioned the cost per turbine.. they average about 4M$ and as high as 11M$...so how many yrs to recoup the cost?... Now I'm not against a clean power source...but I just like honest answers, some thought down the road about disposal, maintenance and long term affects on life....

How in the world can a controlled demolition be possibly considered any sort of a 'failure???"

@chonpincher

4 ай бұрын

Some controlled demolitions fail by bringing the structure down incompletely or in the wrong place. However, that was not the case for the three demolitions shown in the video. Perhaps the compiler couldn't find enough clips of failures and so padded the video out with demolitions. The dropping of the offshore rotor wasn't a turbine failure, either: it was a failure of the crane on the maintenance vessel. That leaves only six turbine failures.

I really look forward to these, I like how you let it play then verbally contextualise what we are watching, sometimes I find out I’m not very perceptive.. thanks for the video 👍.. I imagine a pile of dead birds underneath the wind turbines 💀

@TheRealSwissball

11 ай бұрын

Same here. A perfect amount of talking in his videos. Enough information to let us know what's going on yet doesn't take away from the content he's showing us.

@menavill1

10 ай бұрын

¿Por que hablan tantas pavadas? No saben que un simple alambrado mata perdices ,o un vehículo en ruta ,mata 1 pájaro/año por auto, esas palas a esa velocidad ,no la chocan mas de 3 simples pájaros ,y al principio ,pues luego aprenden a esquivarlo

no.9 Campania is NOT one of the most industrialised regions in Italy! Wind turbines are placed in areas with free land and where wind blows quite constantly year round, this to maximise ROI. I'm Italian, and to be clear Campania like all Italy is a fantastic place to visit.

In 2023 everything is opposite to what we're told. Wind turbines are a perfect example, touted as clean energy but actually worse than a coal mine.

For the record, the fiberglass parts cannot be recycled! they are filling landfills at an alarming rate. Those blades are IMMENSE!!!!

@leonardcollings7389

10 ай бұрын

Carbon fiber parts.

@LonglingEriksen

10 ай бұрын

recycled just like boats now. oil cant be

@chipsawdust5816

9 ай бұрын

@@LonglingEriksen Not a lot of carbon fiber boats around. Which of course is a petroleum product.

@LonglingEriksen

9 ай бұрын

@@chipsawdust5816 maybe only in Norway then. We should ban all oil, much easier. Polutes like you said

@guillermoelnino

9 ай бұрын

@@LonglingEriksen I would love to see the look on y ou r face when y ou realize everything y ou take for granted exists because of oil.

Once the tip of the blade breaks the sound barrier, it's game over.

They put 50 turbines up in one area. I have asked for 6 years. “How much did it cost to plan, build this system? After completion how much energy is produced per year? What is yearly maintenance costs? What is life of turbines?” They can't tell me. (Or won’t)

@ethanlamoureux5306

11 ай бұрын

Of course they won't tell you. It's all a big scam, these companies get their money even if no electricity is ever generated. They most likely don't even break even in 20 years. But some gullible people feel good about how they're saving the planet.

@tommylord

11 ай бұрын

They don't want you to know how UNSUSTAINABLE it is.

@jameshuffman835

11 ай бұрын

The company I work for has done study's, they won't invest in anything that won't produce a return on the investment that won't pay for itself in three years and then must be profitable for another ten! Wind is a loser! But we do have one of the largest solar fields, and a bio-gas plant that powers generators!!

@larrythompson8630

11 ай бұрын

@@jameshuffman835 could you give out info, source of basic info? Such as cost to buy, build a solar farm. (Land needed, cost would be nice but of course varies). So cost for panels, wiring, transformers…. So total cost when production starts? How much energy in a year? Cost of maintenance? Life span, cost to update?…

@jamesbobreski9353

11 ай бұрын

Wind turbines today cost about a 3.50/watt as a ball park figure, nuclear costs about 15/watt this does not include the cost of fuel and security which alone runs into the millions every year. Neither of these costs apply to a wind turbine. 30 % of our nuclear fuel comes from Russia. FYI

2:30 I guess that created a power surge??😅

wow, i wonder the first turbine did not spashed istantly! impressive how long it turned without the weight ballance!

@pentaoxide6853

7 ай бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/nYCG082cmqicnps.htmlsi=kXI_-b7leqvB2Am5 the destroyed wind turbine

A friend of mine had one of these in his back yard back in the 90’s. The thing was a piece of crap. It was up for about 10 years and only operated for about a year combined out of the 10. Then they told him that it was going to cost him $50,000 to replace the rotor, brakes, all the internal components. He told them to stick in their a$$. He’s not paying for anything else. The dicked around a waited until the thing was out of warranty to make him pay for it instead of just fixing it.

The only way most of these wind farms survive is though government subsidies. Think of it as paying for your electricity twice, once in taxes and then to the utility.

Good episode overall, but planned demolition isn't a failure.

@jerkyturkey007

3 ай бұрын

Maybe the amount of time it was in useful service and the amount of money never payed back for the investment would be considered a failure??? Generating electricity for consumers is a real business.

Clean energy.....one heck of a carbon footprint.

If you’re gonna be hauling many blades across railroad tracks, especially turning across the tracks, shouldn’t the railroad be called so you can coordinate your crossing to avoid the times trains might be passing through? Just an idea…

@wirelessone2986

5 ай бұрын

If you look again he hit the rail road safety light on the left way before the train hit

@Gary55379

5 ай бұрын

@@wirelessone2986Doesn’t matter. Railroad should be made aware hundred foot long blades will be crossing the tracks.

@wirelessone2986

5 ай бұрын

@@Gary55379 Thats like saying it didn't matter he hit a telephone pole...HE HIT the light and was bending it and damaged it without a train comming...its probably why he couldnt get out of the way in time

@user-ce3qd4bu6p

4 ай бұрын

Good point, but now your asking for common sense, unfortunately that went with the dodo.

03:30 The Luling clip had destroyed a business when the blade hit the building, lucky no one died. The blade was longer than the two intersection about 40 feet light to light with tracks in the middle

As many times as the word recycle was used it should be noted the fiberglass blades can't be recycled, those are buried in the desert....

@willc854

11 ай бұрын

And THAT, one of two massive problems: unrecyclable buried in the desert, and the nastiness of the manufacturing process from beginning to ‘end’….why is there no penalty in America for the uselessness of the leftovers. Let’s see them buried in the front part of the estates of the people getting rich from this process. This IS NOT AND WILL NEVER BE CLEAN ENERGY. And that’s not even speaking to the batteries….

@tufalike1796

11 ай бұрын

@@willc854 THANK YOU! finally a human that sees the LIE called wind turbines. it's a huge SCAM and an ugly one at best destroying the views of the land they are set on.

@AdrianMidgley

6 ай бұрын

@@willc854 They do make good fences/walls, although not in the front of anyone's estate, I think, so far. And have been used for roofs and bridges.

Clip # 4 appeared to have a steer car with a driver? The Columbia River Gorge, a national scenic area in the United States is pocked by hundreds of windmills picketing the otherwise pristine rolling hills of the eastern gorge.

Bloody things ! There's a wind farm half a mile from my house. What a racket they make !

@PhilOsGarage

11 ай бұрын

They are almost silent. You have obviously never been anywhere near one.

@brianfreeman8290

11 ай бұрын

@@PhilOsGarage Well, for the benefit of the illiterate, the clue is in my post. Half a mile !

@chipsawdust5816

9 ай бұрын

@@brianfreeman8290 Phil is filling up on the kool-aid, so he won't read your reply.

So...2100 gallons of oil for each turbine? I thought it was green energy

How do these massive turbines end up spinning so fast ? I mean it's as though the wind speed is 500 mph. The outer part of the blades must be traveling 500 or 600 miles per hour. Can someone in the know tell me how that is possible ?

@darrellcook8253

5 ай бұрын

Its the sail effect and conservation of energy. Like a sailboat can sail faster than the wind is blowing depending on the angle of attack and sail design. And a turbine blade is waaay more efficient.

@stevehoward3049

5 ай бұрын

@@darrellcook8253 Thanks 🙏

All across the entire planet, you found 10 failures of which at least 2 were not the wind turbine's fault. A train hitting a blade and improper engineering of the concrete pad. Not bad!

We need a compilation of windmills killing protected birds. And some of the drivers in Italy DID drive under the blades.

@redspock

8 ай бұрын

what about cars, killing birds, raccoons, deer, squirrels etc? I bet if you do the numbers, cars kill more.

@patmcbride9853

8 ай бұрын

@@redspock Flying cars would be dangerous to BIRDS. It's a non sequitur to bring in 4 legged creatures.

@redspock

8 ай бұрын

@@patmcbride9853 I see hawks, killed all the time by cars. There’s no difference in comparing the two

@patmcbride9853

8 ай бұрын

@@redspock Yeah, there is. But you can't take the "L".

Each of this "failures" is an enviremental crime...

Вот в чом красота зелёной энергетики.

The people videoing that first turbine remind me of those people who video tornados until they're ten feet away.