Tornado didn't like the competition . . .

@user-wh7sk7rm3f

Ай бұрын

Which is why there's no touchdowns in Washington, D.C. When it comes to winded vortexes of suck, they know where they're beat.

Installing windmills in Tornado Alley. What could go wrong?

@ginog5037

Ай бұрын

Smarts...😂

@blackened872

Ай бұрын

It’s ok. They’ll use our tax dollars to keep putting them back up.

@dudleyowens

Ай бұрын

No shit

@tomp8871

Ай бұрын

@@blackened872 First they have to hide the broken ones in a forest some where.

@solarwind907

Ай бұрын

Bergey Wind Power is based in Norman OK. They make and test turbines there. They think it's a great place to install WT's. However the storms are getting stronger and more numerous. They will affect all building codes, bridges, high rise buildings. pretty much anything that will be in the path of a storm. Including wind turbines. BTW, they don't mill anything. You can call them generators or turbines, but not mills.

thats ironic…WIND-mill taken down by WIND!!!

@mikeyh0

Ай бұрын

Sow the wind reap the whirlwind.

@timothydempsey3763

Ай бұрын

Shoulda consulted the Dutch

@exhaustus7437

Ай бұрын

Go stand in a tornado and tell me theres only wind there...

@terenceiutzi4003

Ай бұрын

@exhaustus7437 Let's face it, they are destroyed by strong winds. Whether it is a tornado or a hurricane, we just prey people aren't killed by the debris!

@MidwestArtist

Ай бұрын

Tornado is different than wind. Let me guess... You love fossil fuels.

For those who don't know (probably most people) stay out of the smoke from these. I feel so bad for those down wind. The material is so extremely toxic that there are only like one or two places in the country that know how to recycle these safely. Thesw either just go lay in a yard somewhere, maybe stacked up, but they usually bury them so people won't realize these aren't really much better for the environment then anything else. I pray those who did inhale this don't have any negative health problems down the road, even WAY down the road, from this. They have enough to deal with.

@solarwind907

Ай бұрын

The generators are the same as any generator or motor. Just turned by the wind instead of NG or diesel. You want to stay out of the smoke of ANY burning motor. Or any thing else burning for that matter.

Only 3,000,000 dollars apiece

@nikgigli9601

Ай бұрын

Drop in the bucket for all the free electricity they are selling.

@farmerdude3578

Ай бұрын

@@nikgigli9601 Free?

@user-vf3sg5xi4g

Ай бұрын

Paid for by our Grandchildren.

@dcartier1692

Ай бұрын

@@user-vf3sg5xi4g rather, giving your grandchildren a future!

They could be turned into land sculptures for the Green Energy Tours.

@LayllasLocker

Ай бұрын

Or they can join turbine graveyards.

@Fuzzybudget

Ай бұрын

@@LayllasLocker they need to take out all the concrete bases now

LoL......what could possibly go wrong with big pinwheels in the sky?

@lindabergman3127

Ай бұрын

Millions of birds killed by those things😢

@peachy1333

Ай бұрын

@@lindabergman3127 millions of birds killed for chicken nuggets. get your head out of your ass.

@lynno.7641

Ай бұрын

What could possibly go wrong with nuclear power plants hit by tornado or towering electrified power lines, or any building above ground?!?! I dare you to find millions of birds killed by wind turbines. It's not happening, birds fly through and around everything else......they're smarter than you seem to think.

@ethyr

Ай бұрын

@@lindabergman3127 less birds killed than oil spills

@johnbrabant9548

Ай бұрын

@@lynno.7641 Wrong - o. They kill raptors and bats most often. Across the country, yes, millions. The operator/owners were claiming very low casualties based upon their required surveys under and near the turbines. They found very few. Then biologists began requiring that they survey using sniffing dogs. One consulting firm performing these surveys deployed trained Border Collies. The death tolls of raptors has skyrocketed as it has been found that most of the dead birds had been fed upon by scavengers in between surveys. They are coming up with more accurate totals now and the impacts upon local populations of raptors is high and of increasing concern.

Your "green" energy is smoking

@horvathr95

Ай бұрын

You're right, as if more traditonal power plants have never been destroyed by storms. What a moron 🤦‍♂

@zkurtz21

Ай бұрын

@@Prowlerooklol it was a joke relax Joe

@hyun1141

Ай бұрын

@@zkurtz21 and we all know jokes don't have any meaning or implications

@akshonclip

Ай бұрын

@@ProwlerookYour TDS is showing libturd

@akshonclip

Ай бұрын

@@hyun1141you and rook should get a room and discuss your pronouns.

That looks expensive

@czechmate6916

Ай бұрын

Taxpayers will take care of it

@EphemeralProductions

Ай бұрын

Extremely. Each one of those is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars

@Wolfcamp555

Ай бұрын

6 million a piece.

@EphemeralProductions

Ай бұрын

@@Wolfcamp555 holy ****!!!!! 😳😖

@peter2liter

Ай бұрын

@@czechmate6916 nope, those are privately owned. the company or their insurance agency is gonna have to eat the damages.

It's not nice to fool Mother Nature.

@dforrest4503

Ай бұрын

I can’t believe it’s not butter.

@ILGuy2012

Ай бұрын

Looks like she wasn't gonna let them profit off of "free" wind.

@cwshawk

Ай бұрын

Mother Nature screwed up. 106 of the 110 are still up and spinning.

@mikeyh0

Ай бұрын

@@cwshawk Unlike the "big guy" and his 10% she only takes 4%.

@carolebarker2195

Ай бұрын

@@cwshawk That was a warning. You won't like her when she's angry !!!

It's a start .

So the wind mills couldn’t take the wind?

@peter2liter

Ай бұрын

Everything has it's engineering limits. Even submarines will succumb to the water if they dive too deep.

@realixx9375

Ай бұрын

Not 200mph wind no

@ASMR-XI-ZUI

Ай бұрын

😮hmm ud think wind turbines wud be strong enuff to sustain heavy winds. I wonder if its a cover up n poootin launching missiles. Who knows what's really going on

@JulStar13

Ай бұрын

They're rated to 160 mph.

@joemilo333

Ай бұрын

@JulStar13 I hear dow measured winds above 200

Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.

@OregonCrow

Ай бұрын

cringe

@REVNUMANEWBERN

Ай бұрын

♥ I see what you did there, YOU UNDERSTAND also!

@fitmesslife

Ай бұрын

@@OregonCrow Are you anti semantic?

But the power generated right before it collapsed must have been HUGE!!!

@Aetius_of_Astora

Ай бұрын

Unfortunately once a turbine exceeds its intended max operating speeds it actually produces less power the closer to failure it gets. So they probably barely generated anything usable before failing

@realixx9375

Ай бұрын

The brakes were on to prevent damage. The tornado was just so strong that it forced the blades to turn anyway, which heated up the brakes till they caught fire. Then the tornado proceeded to collapse the whole thing

@ILGuy2012

Ай бұрын

Once the wind reaches a certain speed, they stop generating to keep from ruining the components. So on very windy days, even though they are spinning, they are not producing electricity.

@christopherleubner6633

Ай бұрын

They went into braking mode, but tornado obviously overloaded it both mechanically and structurally. Tha means they took sustained winds in excess of 220mph and 450mph respectively. 😮

@solarwind907

Ай бұрын

@@christopherleubner6633 do you know the failure, wind speed for these turbin/tower systems? If so, I’d be interested in knowing the brand and model so I can look up the specifications. It seem like all three Failed the same way, looking at the towers anyway.

Reed Timmer has video of the tornado taking these out. 🌪️

@redavni1

Ай бұрын

I want to watch it, but is that the guy that screams all the time?

@akshonclip

Ай бұрын

@@redavni1 Lol yeah 🤣

@ischmidt

Ай бұрын

@@redavni1 It is, but it's drone video so there's no screaming.

Still close to 100,000 people without power in Houston after tornadoes destroyed many large high voltage transmission towers. We don't have any electric power that stands up to direct hits from tornadoes.

@solarwind907

Ай бұрын

Someone with critical thinking skills! Who the hell let you into the conversation??

@fitmesslife

Ай бұрын

Buried cables don't get blown down.

One way to get rid of the eye pollution!

Ooooops. We’re still trying to find places to put these ginormous broken things as well as the dead solar panels from the last hail and sand storms. Maybe next to the evs and their batteries.

@matclairoux

Ай бұрын

i bet your ancestors were saying airplanes are unreliable and dangerous. 🤦‍♂

@henryroman5415

Ай бұрын

@@matclairoux Nice try. Green energy is dogshit.

@realixx9375

Ай бұрын

​@matclairoux mostly inaccurate except for Boeing exists so they kind of still are lmao

@laurie7689

Ай бұрын

@@matclairoux At first, they were. There are plenty of films showing early aircraft. They were disasters and people died, but through A LOT of trial and error, after a time, they eventually became usable and useful.

Thats mother nature saying those eyesores gotta go

@cwshawk

Ай бұрын

Mother nature forget to take out the other 106 on this wind farm still standing?

@ginog5037

Ай бұрын

...and bird killers, very sad. Saw a Blad Eagle killed, almost made me cry...

@robertdesantis6205

Ай бұрын

@@ginog5037 I hate those bloody things. They aren't what they are cracked up to be. No pun intended. 🦅🕊🐦😢

East coast girl here but, I saw these a few years ago on a road trip…. They are ENORMOUS!!!!

@malahammer

Ай бұрын

Tornadoes?

@NBZW

Ай бұрын

Were?

Kudos to the tornado!!! Btw, they are not windmills. They are wind turbines.

It's ok, they're sustainable🙄

@bloba4443

Ай бұрын

Just because a tornado destroys a building doesn’t mean we shouldn’t stop building them? I mean I don’t see anyone stopping building neighborhoods in tornado prone areas

@Trackratz-zl9di

Ай бұрын

Stupid idea gets stupid result

@jeffharper7579

Ай бұрын

They can be replaced now think about a nuclear power plant, should withstand a tornado but if not think about the fallout. Just look at Japan.

@jimmythepirate494

Ай бұрын

@@jeffharper7579 If where these are located were to get a tsunami I am pretty sure it wouldn't be a reactor meltdown that got everybody hahahaha!

Meanwhile, all of Reed Timmer's followers were going, "Whoa, that's so cool! It ate the turbines! Check out those crystal clear multiple vortices! I'n't she GOAH-GEOUS!" Seriously, most photogenic multi-vortex tornado ever.

Don’t put those things back up!

@solarwind907

Ай бұрын

Yeah, don’t rebuild any of the houses either, or the businesses, powerlines, electrical transformers, etc. Brilliant. Several people died during this catastrophe. May they rest in peace, in a place with no selfish idiots.

@cwshawk

Ай бұрын

I’m sure Warren Buffett will value your feedback

@Rocketman88002

Ай бұрын

@solarwind, the comment is addressed to wind farm equipment which provides supplemental energy. We are far from green here in the U.S. and we can survive without wind energy. Concerning the fatalities and losses. We feel for them. By the way, have you ever been a volunteer for a disaster relief team? That's when compassion becomes active and functional. Talking to the victims and crying with them for the loss of things that are irreplaceable.

@JasonTate86

Ай бұрын

Ok. Does that mean we can start building coal power plants again? 🤣🤣🤣

@solarwind907

Ай бұрын

@@Rocketman88002 There are over 100 turbines at that site. Not farm equipment. We are far from running on renewables but that's where we're headed. If you want to help future generations from experiencing more and more extreme weather events, vote for people who understand climate science. Lessening the hardship on future generations is a better use of your time than holding someones hand after SHTF day, or sending thoughts and prayers.

I watched this tornado happen live on the max velocity stream

@hittinitsidways

Ай бұрын

Same!

@glorygracek.1841

Ай бұрын

Howdy! I was there too! Some of the storms were in track to hit family after this, sonwe were keeping an eye on this storm. Very scary. It was supposed to get to us after 2 a.m., but thankfully, it petered out before us.

@hittinitsidways

Ай бұрын

Where y’all watching from

@Sirensofgrimescounty

Ай бұрын

@@hittinitsidways southeast texas

@hittinitsidways

Ай бұрын

@@Sirensofgrimescounty cool! I’m in San Marcos

I thought we'd just get extra electricity

green energy burnt the green under it.

That billowing smoke sure looks healthy! Almost like an electric bus burning. Yay green !!

Is this green???

@MrIamnoone

Ай бұрын

No.

I watched the tornado take these out on Reed Rimmer's channel. I would say it's unbelievable but I live in southeastern Kansas

At least the birds won’t get ripped to shreds.

@user-dh6bj2me5p

Ай бұрын

Coal plants hill 100 times more birds from pollution.

@Tevon93

Ай бұрын

I love me some delicious coal

@realixx9375

Ай бұрын

Oh yeah instead they get blended by 200mph winds

@cwshawk

Ай бұрын

There’s a 106 other wind turbines still standing on this wind farm

It’s a blessing…. Those things are HORRIBLE!!

Reminds me of the tornado in Leapwood and Adamsville, Tennessee. It broke the large metal power line poles like small twiggs! Pretty fascinating!

I never saw a nuclear power plant get blown over!

@1133saginaw

Ай бұрын

If you did, you would want to run fast.

@polka120

Ай бұрын

You would not be here to talk about it.

@OkalaborationO

Ай бұрын

I never saw a windmill overheat and kill 20k people down wind.

@21AirDrop

Ай бұрын

And the nuclear power plan is actually cleaner and causes less damage.

@ariessilva

Ай бұрын

And yet no windmill has caused a disaster like Fukushima or chernobyl

The air polution that follows ... 😢

Used to go snow sledding there when I was a kid in the 60s I had a mud flap off of a semi. best damn snow sled ever until you hit a frozen cow pie. that was my grandpa's farm Harvey Davidson that I use to snow sled on🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 south of Prescott.

The future, now it's garbage.

We're gonna need atleast 120,000 gallons of diesel to fix this. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Wow! Destruction from a tornado, who would've thought.

That sure helps the environment, doesn’t it?!

I always wondered what would happen if a tornado hit one of those windmills, now I know.

Scenery vastly improved IMO.

That's going to take way longer to fix over just setting another pole and pulling a new power line wire.

Tornadoes clean off the windmills and hail removes the solar farms ! Doesn’t sound like a good idea for sustainable energy production. 😢

@analienfromouterspace

Ай бұрын

Solar farms in deserts would do just fine, plenty of future projects in North Africa and central America on the way. Hydro energy still the most efficient.

@DonFarmer-hq5sw

Ай бұрын

@@analienfromouterspace unfortunately a solar farm in the desert 🐪 is relatively useless. Most desert areas, have nearly zero population.

@solarwind907

Ай бұрын

@@DonFarmer-hq5sw look up “power transmission, lines” it’s a thing

@sigalsmadar4547

Ай бұрын

@@DonFarmer-hq5sw Electric transmission wires? Have you never heard of electric transmission wires? Or Phoenix? or Tucson?

@DonFarmer-hq5sw

Ай бұрын

@@sigalsmadar4547 there is a reason that electric transmission wires can not be used. It’s called resistance, measured in Ohms. Since your name suggests Signals … that you might understand at least basic electromagnetism. Perhaps 🤔 you should reconsider such uninformed statements .

It was too windy.

What a surprise!!!!! Build huge vertical structures in Tornado country, and the obvious happens. Cheers Rosemary Western Australia 73yrs

@indigocheetah4172

Ай бұрын

Greetings from Brisbane, Rosemary. I agree.

@roses9339

Ай бұрын

@@indigocheetah4172 how's your weather?. I'm desperate for rain😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳

@RandomDudeOne

Ай бұрын

Calm down. Three turbines out of thousands is nothing. Be more concerned about the people who lost their homes.

@indigocheetah4172

Ай бұрын

@@roses9339, cooler, with some rain. There has been rain out west. I hope that it rains soon where you are living. All the best.

@indigocheetah4172

Ай бұрын

@@RandomDudeOne, the turbines do not worry me. The people's well-being is what matters.

Who is paying for the cleanup and spread of debris? How many windmills were impacted?

I admittedly don’t know anything about wind turbines but how does one catch on fire? Is it an electrical fire from shorting out?

@DISOPtv

Ай бұрын

yes and they have lots of oil for the gears etc.

@KM-zu9we

Ай бұрын

@@DISOPtvguess they won’t have to do the scheduled oil change on those for a while.

@jbkunk9611

Ай бұрын

No, it's from all the bullshit the Democrats stuffed in the base to make it look cool.

@peter2liter

Ай бұрын

I'm guessing they short out when damaged and get back-fed electricity from other windmills or the grid. Of course this causes an arc hot enough to ignite any flammable stuff inside, wire sheathing, plastics, lubricants, etc.

@davidmackenzie7356

Ай бұрын

i work as a service tech, the gearbox in these has alone gas 1200 litres of oil, mix that with 400 amp power and the hundres litres of oil for mech. hydrolines and its a recipe for fire,

I feel the same excitement about broken wind turbines as some people feel about destroying snowmen, inflatable lawn ornaments, or balloons.

How much CO2 we save with this big bag of wind?

Thousands of birds saved.

Looks sustainable to me. Yup.

@codymoe4986

Ай бұрын

About as sustainable as the towns they destroy...smh Try again, Fox bot....

That had to be a really strong tornado to take down those massive wind turbines.

Isn't the wind supposed to be good for them?

WOW I pray everyone is safe 🙏✝️🕊️

@SomeBuddy777

Ай бұрын

AMEN ✝️

@malahammer

Ай бұрын

How does that help?

@hamburglar83

Ай бұрын

Multiple deaths unfortunately…..destroyed a town.

@helenpauls1496

Ай бұрын

Calm down, Just windmills, they can be replaced.

@JtM8292

Ай бұрын

🤔 .... But Jesus does everthing for a reason tho 🤦🤣😂🤣😂🤣 so no point in praying lolol

Just turn the property into a landfill. That's a green dream.

Each windmill has about 400 gallons of oil, hydraulic fluid, etc. (Fossil fuels), so that's what's burning. Another myth busted!

@cwshawk

Ай бұрын

TWC said it was 50-100 gallons of oil. Nice try, though.

So .. one hail storm can destroy acres of a solar "farm" & one tornado can destroy multiple turbines. Is this stuff insured or do we all have to pay for it with higher electric bills?

So.... one of the solutions to green energy is to put windmill farms in tornado alley. What would be the odds that too much wind would take out wind turbines?

@solarwind907

Ай бұрын

Have you noticed that tornado alley is getting bigger every year? The solution is to burn less fossil fuels, emit, less greenhouse, gases. An understanding of climate science and structural engineering will get us through this. Stupidity and ignorance are not very helpful here. But, they are abundant!

Beautiful sight!

I am reminded of the things outside car dealerships when someone accidentally unplugs them.

Ugh. Those Li fumes… horrible horrible.

Reed timmer got some drone footage of one colapsing today. Was crazy

Oh gosh the wind turbines are flamable. We better not build any more just to be safe.

@featherweighthate

Ай бұрын

everything with an engine is flammable (maybe youre just joking)

@ohsweetmystery

Ай бұрын

@@featherweighthate Engine in a wind turbine?

@henryroman5415

Ай бұрын

@@featherweighthate Maybe it's all that oil thats burning.

@featherweighthate

Ай бұрын

@@henryroman5415 yeah, thats likely it

@artcurious807

Ай бұрын

that smoke is highly toxic as well. this is why nuclear, hydro, and LNG are cleaner for the environment and more durable. windmill farms will get destroyed every 5 yrs

These aren't mills, they are wind turbines

@kona2077

Ай бұрын

Who cares a tornado just made them crap metal now

@user-jc7jb3bu5s

Ай бұрын

They were..

@wut3358

Ай бұрын

Ok Karen.

@claudb1029

Ай бұрын

Typical LEFT post, Has nothing to do with the subject. In fact the post itself says nothing of value. Little does well in a tornado.

@SkinnyBigRed1

Ай бұрын

It’s literally a trigger for anybody who’s ever worked in the industry, when they hear people say windmills instead of wind, turbines… I was thinking the same thing 😂 I just usually don’t correct people. Most of the public could care less :-)

Out of power for months instead of days or maybe a week. Hip Hip Hooray for wind power.

That should buff right out!

Tornado prone areas are no way ideal to put up windmills to harvest the wind energy. Learned it. Wish the tornado torn community will never have to face anything like that again🙏. Aren't there options other than to rebuild in the same fashion in such regions?

Well, how environmentally friendly.

Next week: Hailstorm vs Solar Farm !

That was one of the craziest muti vortexs ive seen.

Windmills in tornado country. Brilliant.

Tornado wasn't feeling green energy 😂

@cwshawk

Ай бұрын

It’s missed the other 106 at this wind farm.

Alll that greeeen energy

@georgewills-ek1gg

Ай бұрын

up in smoke

What was eerie was seeing these (?) getting hit (separate video). The blades were barely turning, actually - perhaps because their back was to the inflow (i.e., they were facing the tornado). Not sure if that's why, but these machines seemed to be having an "Oh snap." moment - then snapped.

@gorak9000

Ай бұрын

They have brakes that are applied when the wind speed is too high, to prevent damage to the blades and the gearbox. Tornado wind is strong enough to overcome the brakes and turn the blades anyway.

@user-wh7sk7rm3f

Ай бұрын

@@gorak9000 Oh, yeah. That.

Well who would've thought it

Wind turbine, not windmill.

@henryroman5415

Ай бұрын

Scrap metal.

Reed intercepted that tornado before it hit the wind turbines. Right place, right time as always. Dominating.

Next they have to start building windmills out of fire retardant materials.

Makes me wonder about the randomness of death and destruction. Might depend on which side of the street. Or if you get in the way, you might end up down the street. . . a ways away

Ist der Tornado zu stark, ist die Windmühle zu schwach 😂

Thank you tornado!

Many birds saved..

They should design them to run off tornadoes

they are called wind turbines

@solarwind907

Ай бұрын

Yes. They don’t mill anything. Thank you.

It was so weird! The tornado didn't even touch most of the turbine's but they buckled anyway.. 🤨

Not windmills.

WOW! I feel really bad for folks there.

Where is the clean energy, after all??

Is that black smoke good for the environment?

Well That’s Green :)

Windmills don’t like high winds, kind of like trees.

The tornado had good aim!😂😂

@cwshawk

Ай бұрын

What about the other 106 in this Berkshire wind field?

Birds are killed by the span of the blades oh well time did tell😮

I’m so sorry for this terrible experience God Bless everyone 🙏🙏🙏🙏

Isn't Iowa where people have converted missal silos into homes? I imagine they are one of the few things designed to stand up to tornadoes.

@malahammer

Ай бұрын

Yeah....if only missile silos were underground 🙄

@cindystuder9090

Ай бұрын

How many missile silos would it take? To house people or wind turbines? I'm confused

@codymoe4986

Ай бұрын

@malahammer...As opposed to those above ground missle silos?? What are you babbling about?

Wind Turbines, not wind mills.

It's not a mill. It's a generator.

I Bet it was generating quite a bit of electricity just before the tornado hit.

That's really nothing new. Blades damage by dust, rain, hail, etc.

@johng5710

Ай бұрын

The blades are made of CARBON fibers and PLASTICS, both of which are manufactured with petrochemicals that come from DRILLING for OIL.

@cwshawk

Ай бұрын

This Berkshire Energy farm has a history of blade defects