For those curious, the Mitsubishi 1000A is a pretty old design (by wind turbine standards). It looks like most of these were installed back in the early to mid-2000's, so they are 15 - 20 years old. New units use different tower designs so you can't just lift a new top for them when they're being replaced. Just a quick browsing of the internet found several major repowering programs going on replacing similarly aged units across the world with newer, higher capacity units. The real waste is that most of these older blades can't be recycled, so they're simply buried and that is a ton of waste being generated (literally).

@zebrashark23

2 жыл бұрын

so green.

@starpawsy

Жыл бұрын

As distinct from a coallie, which has a useful life of 50 years. As someone else said, presumeably sarcastically - "so green".

Really great shots at 1:20 and 1:34. Your calculations were right and no cameras were destroyed!

Very good work with the cameras great shots.

Shoulda done 'em to the "William Tell Overture"....

I guess they will learn to build wind turbines that last longer and are practical to service ? Always fun to watch CDI demolition’s !

You have won the day, but we will be back taller, stronger, more Mw and more reliable.

Spot on camera placement and spot-on felling. Amazing job as always, love those vids.

👍🏼 Great images, super edit, and unmatched audio! Thanks, and all the best for 2022!😎✌🏼

Excellent!! NOTHING more satisfying than watching a wind generator DIE!!

Thank you for re-uploading this

Great shot with one landing in front of the camera Enjoyed the video and I gave it a Thumbs Up

I imagine that CDI gets to come in, blow it up, then leave. The dirty work is another crew to chop it up and haul away.

@cdi Amazing work! We understand you're in the demo business, and not the wind farm energy creation business but can you provide any insight on why these all came down? "100 units in two (2) mobilizations to the site, in a total of just nine (9) working days"

"It's supposed to lure me into a sense of calm and then-" *boom *boom *boom *boom

Although video notes don’t identify exact location of this obsolete wind firm, in the Palm Springs area, dozens of obsolete wind turbines at end of life (25+ years old) were demolished and replace by fewer, much larger wind turbines that are more efficient at generating electricity. Spectacular demolition but part of a normal equipment lifecycle process. PS - these wind turbines are tiny compared to recent installations!

I missed my calling. This job looks like a hell of a lot of fun. It never gets old, for me anyway.

@drstrangelove4998

2 жыл бұрын

And, you’ll never be out of a job!

Great work! Always fun to watch.

You all do such Beautiful work! Very Nice!!!

Great shots by the people behind the audio/video.

Well, that's one way to get stuff to the ground for recycling

Wow, that was awesome where you placed a video cameras

I still think their logo should be a silhouette of a falling building and birds taking to flight. 😉 Please, someone understand.

Looks like you're off to a good start. Got a couple hundred of the hideous eye sores up here in Northern PA. How soon can you get started?

@jamesvandamme7786

2 жыл бұрын

They're putting up bigger ones. Better than power plants...

@ke6gwf

2 жыл бұрын

Would you like the coal fired power plant that they replaced in your back yard instead? ;)

They blow up windmills because they have exploded and instead of renovating they will build new ones?

Sustainable energy my rear end. They can't even recycle the darn thing.

Would be fun to put a GoPro on top of one and watch that ride down. Then hope you can find it in the pile of broken pieces 🤷‍♂️

Clean energy wright

I'd like to know why these were destroyed.

@Mboy245

2 жыл бұрын

They were antiques by wind turbine standards

Hilarious how many of the background ones are not spinning.

This video was removed a few months ago and got reuploaded now.

Really cool!!

I guess the people talking smack about wind power didn’t see the last two videos posted to this channel lol

Awesome!!

Wiatraki to zagrożenie dla ludzi i przyrody (ptaki birds)

You guys gotta get some nice 240fps capable cameras 😉

"CDI’s crew felled almost 100 units--" Wow... were all these units at end of service life?

*"Sustainable energy"*

I wonder if these wind turbines had generated enough electricity to justify the cost of manufacture, installation, demolition and cleanup.

Love the camera Angela

I would like to have seen it done using Fred's method, but it probably would not be possible to use the more spectacular method.

Why not build the towers with a hinge at the bottom aligned with the prevailing wind so that when you want to take them out, just unpin the restraining bolts opposite the hinge and let them fall (or use a guy wire to pull them down)?

That was a few of many which need to be brought to a horizontal situation, as none of the others were rotating. A blot on the landscape everywhere.

Waiting for people to jump on the whole, wind turbine bad, bandwagon, truth is, the condition or removal of them was not stated, landowner likely wanted to upgrade!

What if those were not wind turbines? And if they were water towers? They would be louder than that.

Part of me wishes I didn’t enjoy this so much.

I suppose crane time is too costly?

I can hear metal cables snapped.

Like butter

I have a dream ...

Sucks when they run out of wind huh? Unlike unlimited petroleum reserves 😂

@ke6gwf

2 жыл бұрын

These are old worn out units being upgraded to newer designs that produce much more power. You don't see any spinning because they have all been locked out to be safe to work around.

Why ?

Ahh, renewables.....

Turbine, or not turbine ? That is the question.

Why??????

Doing their part for the planet!

@ke6gwf

2 жыл бұрын

They are old units, around 20+ years old, old designs that have more wear parts and require more maintenance, and they don't produce as much power as new designs. The tower is a different design than newer units, so they can't simply swap the upper unit, and the blades are a different size and pitch to modern designs. So there is no way to keep these economically viable, or upgrade or reuse any part of them, so the cheapest and safest solution is to drop them like this, scrap and recycle them on the ground, and then replace them with modern designs that will produce much more power per unit, requiring much less maintenance, and probably having a much longer service life. They may be able to use the concrete piers, if they are large enough to handle the replacements, but they may be going to much more massive units and need new bases as well.

Is the oil removed from the turbines before they are dropped?

Anyone else like Mitsubishi Motors company? Because this might as well be a Japanese video right there. 😄

Wszystkie wiatraki wysadzić dynamitem

AOC's hair is on fire.

Don't like wind turbines. Nice to see them come down.

Apparently they wear out pretty fast and you have to keep knocking them down. And apparently none of them are spinning.

So much for wind energy being ecologically friendly

The wind turbine was obselete because wind has been discontinued as a fuel source.

And i thought wind turbines were the way of the future… guess not!.. i used to work for General Electric and at one time we made wind turbine gearboxes. That was years ago though..

Only another 3000000 of the bloody things to go

Cs

Я не понял, чего там у вас происходит, в ваших Соединенных Штатах Америки? Наигрались с ветряками, теперь всё сносить?

As if angry at the machine for its limited lifespan, after thousands of hours use.

I love seeing these things literally bite the dust. The only good wind turbine is a pile of garbage headed for the landfill.

Ah yes, build back better! Let’s go Brandon!

I'm glad that they are removing these before they kill all the birds.

Rip them all down!

I never did see any use for wind power turbines, they never will be able to pay for themselves much less produce enough electricity to be cost effective, and they are unsightly as well cluttering up the scenery, good riddance to every last one of those things

What a waist of money.

Im not a fan of this old technology.

Made in China