"You were only supposed to blow the BLOODY DOOR OFF!"

@Rob_Dingemans

3 жыл бұрын

That works only in Italy ;-)

@ozynigma

3 жыл бұрын

It's a self preservation society.

@James-gf9jl

3 жыл бұрын

Excellent!

@themaconeau

3 жыл бұрын

It did in the end 😂

3Days after the Warranty ended . . . Boom!

I remember sailing past Hunterston in the 90s and thinking they looked like something from War of the Worlds.

@todaywefly4370

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah!......just...now we’ll have to sit here in the cold and dark. Because no body is building a replacement of any kind.

This turbine was an off-shore turbine set up on land for testing and research purposes and never intended as a production unit. Once the tests and research were completed it was no longer useful and this was the cheapest and safest method to remove it. Its destruction had nothing to do with being worn out or being in need of rebuilding.

@craigfletcher2803

3 жыл бұрын

That’s what they should do with all of them. I go past a wind farm on the Hume Highway NSW Australia and more times than not they are still as statutes.

@BitTwisted1

3 жыл бұрын

I'm working next door, there were two windmills installed. The planning application was for three temporary research machines. For some reason they rarely ran at the same time, the rumour was the local authority limited the grid connection size, ensuring they didn't become permanent. The first ran 90% compared to the second, and was taken apart carefully with a crane. I suspect a big part of the learning is how to assemble it and replace parts safely. The second windmill being demolished here never actually ran much at all, smells like there was a design issue and it only had scrap value, so it was safely scrapped.

@blauer2551

3 жыл бұрын

Why not connect it to the grid after the testing was done it it was functional?

@corrigenda70

3 жыл бұрын

Pity it wasn't a 'working' one. It would be nice to see many more working turbines taken down in this way.

@nigelmitchell351

3 жыл бұрын

@@blauer2551 Because that's where the real cost is.! The figures are are so skewed around wind turbines.

Am I the only one who thinks when they fell over the sound was really cool

Coming soon to a fly tip near you, one extra large bird mincer!

Can we do this to all of the ones round here, ( West Yorkshire Moors)

How much energy does it take to build one .How much energy does it take to demo one and how much energy did this one produce.

@chrisward5626

3 жыл бұрын

If you need to ask that then you have no idea about energy

@dongibbons7264

3 жыл бұрын

@@chrisward5626 and you do? -- I think total cost, not only of energy, but of pollution caused by strip mining for the metals, and environmental impact of the operating turbine, are all legitimate questions. Activists on both sides try to make it a black-and-white issue, but any good engineer (or good scientist) realizes that things are rarely black-and-white.

@DrBenWeatherhead

3 жыл бұрын

@@chrisward5626 I also have no idea, then. Could you please help us to understand?

@jonathantalsma2935

3 жыл бұрын

@@chrisward5626 if you feel you need to make a comment like that ,well you know.

@melvinboyce9629

3 жыл бұрын

@@chrisward5626 enlighten us stupid people. Tell us everything you know about energy.

I climbed this turbine in Hunterston many times when it was in service. I'd left SSE by the time this decommissioning occurred. I always thought it was an unnecessarily dramatic decommissioning process but I cant begrudge the lads their fun with explosives. For everyone whinging below in the comments section, May I politely suggest you return to your mothers basements, for you have no clue what you are talking about.

@brendarichey2693

3 жыл бұрын

Are the out dated, decommissioned wind turbines recycled?

@mandatethis8024

3 жыл бұрын

Lucky we got you!!! Otherwise nobody would know nuthin....

@robertleonard9656

3 жыл бұрын

You are right. There are a lot of really dumb comments.

@gordbaker896

3 жыл бұрын

They are shut down if wind exceeds 25mph. Eyesores and only make money for Samsung.

Always fun to watch CDI drop something tall ! I guess engineers need to figure out longevity solutions for windmills.

@phis.750

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah they really need to windmills often times just get buried in landfills, you can find pictures of thousands of turbine blades just getting dumped off and buried, one of the landfills in casper, wyoming, has 33,000 buried there. its really expensive to recycle them, cheaper to just bury them. There are some other really good comments in here mentioning the problems that windmills have.

@bigmart932

3 жыл бұрын

This particular one was a prototype of an offshore model.

@JYJOSHMX

3 жыл бұрын

Nuclear reactor is clean!

@paulmoffat9306

3 жыл бұрын

So far, they only have a 15-25 year service life. I have several PCs that are older and still functioning!

Is this what will happen to the SnP policy of covering Scotland in these EYESORES? I hope so !!!!!!!!

The pieces of communications tower laying there made me think of my old Tinker Toys set when I was a kid.

@m.s.aviation7065

3 жыл бұрын

same lol

A camera on top of the generator would have given a great shot of the upcoming ground

Sad to see. Those propellor blades couldn't be salvaged first?

@dickfitzwell4920

3 жыл бұрын

Cant be recycled, most likely will be buried in the ground.

Test facility, Now to check the parts for wear.

This demolition does not include the massive concrete foundation

How ironic. My oldest sister used to have a job of turbine engineering in Iowa for a year and a half, then I see it satisfyingly collapse.

@richardwilliams4900

3 жыл бұрын

You are seemingly from the Alanis Morissette school of irony

Why did they spend all that money on these wind turbines a few years ago and now start removing them? It doesn't seem like renewable energy if they don't even last. I guess all the clean energy awareness stuff I did in high school was just a waste of time.

@gingef5197

3 жыл бұрын

These objects of the international global warming fraud have served their purpose,

@jonathanbuzzard1376

3 жыл бұрын

This was built for testing off shore turbines not actual production generation of electricity. You don't build hundreds of turbines without doing some testing first. Once the testing was complete it needed to go.

So did Super Dave Osborn survive?

Wonder what Fred would have done

"Hey, Jock - did you remember to tighten down those last three bolts so the wind turbine won't fall over?" "What do you think I am? Some kind of mor-... uh, oh..."

Falmouth Massachusetts Could Use This Service - Two Vestas V-82 type 1.65 megawatt wind turbines ( NegMicon 1999-2003)

Time 1.02 "Your only supposed to blow the bloody door off" Michael Caine in "The Italian Job"

@EzeePosseTV

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao, you beat me to it. That was my exact thought when I saw the door fly off.

@SkypowerwithKarl

3 жыл бұрын

Nailed it!🔨

@finscreenname

3 жыл бұрын

I was 3 weeks to late.

@prillewitz

3 жыл бұрын

Which they did.

@Channel-ij5px

3 жыл бұрын

Kinda similar to what Richard Hammond said in top gear “you’ve only blown the bloody door off”

I think projects such as Whitelee Wind Farm and others will give energy producers a better understanding of how maintenance and repair are critical in the long term feasibility of wind power. If the initial development cost must be repeated every 15 to 20 years in addition to the demolition and clean up related cost's such as those depicted in this video are to be expected then we need to come up with a better plan.

0:35 Imagine the unspoiled view of the countryside the way it once was. 0:45 I can imagine.

So much prestige -gone in seconds. NIIIICE !!!

That was my 50th birthday! Hello from Victoria, BC, Canada.

What does "SSE National Off Shore Wind Turbine Test Facility" mean? Do you think this was an old one no longer needed for testing?

@Yirielonidkhz

Жыл бұрын

No, actually its a very very modern one. Siemens Gamesa found a new testing site or the test ended. Thats a Siemens Gamesa SG 154-7.0. Its a 7MW offshore wind turbine. Right now Siemens Gamesa does their offshore and onshore turbines tests on Østerild.

Why blown up?

In 1974 I took classes for oceanography.My professor had worked on a project that used wave action to create electric power.This mat would sit on the surface of water.(ocean, lake ,river,etc.)and depending on wind speed determined the output. Whenever a storm was to cause a problem they would just roll up the mat. We have the ability but the powers that be will lose billions.

What are they made from ,and are they recycled

took the wind out the sales 😂

Beautiful work, it looks like you made an angled cut with the charges like felling a giant steel tree.

@nireizapaynante7551

3 жыл бұрын

Could you too and I'm interested in

@ticktockmoto7301

3 жыл бұрын

Right on, i was wondering if they were just gonna blast and let the wind take it where it want or direct it. That pictures shows the cut put it the right where they wanted it.

@goldenrod8861

3 жыл бұрын

Actually, by volume, they're mostly fiberglass, a petroleum product. They're also manufactured with petroleum power, transported with petroleum power and erected with petroleum power. No less than nine balsa trees were harvested with petroleum powered chain saws and prepared in a petroleum powered saw mill. This is what they call "green".

Why does it always look like winter in Scotland?

@ModelLights

3 жыл бұрын

Because they are essentially north of northern Canada. It's easy to not notice due to how they typically show maps of North America and maps of Europe, but check the latitudes. UK is far north, the only reason that area isn't a frozen wasteland is because of ocean currents. Also check Moscow while you're at it, seems like it's about even with Washington DC due to how they show the maps, really it is also far north. There's a good reason they have Moscow winters, etc..

@jabberwocky1707

3 жыл бұрын

Especially when it's 'summer'.

@AJ-qn6gd

3 жыл бұрын

As they say in Scotland “if you don’t like the weather just wait 15 minutes”.

@ardalla535

3 жыл бұрын

@@AJ-qn6gd I think they say that just about everywhere.

I like the art of demolition

What was wrong with it?

Don’t know why people get so upset over birds it’s not like we are running out of them I have to buy devices to scare them away my buildings because of all the poop they leave. They do make fun target practice with a air rifle though !

why could it not be taken down in reverse order and much of it savaged properly for recycling ???

Lots of those are going. By the time the reach payback, they are in need of rebuilding. The blades on many are fatigued from cycling of gravity as the blade goes up and on the trip going down.

@snr7287

3 жыл бұрын

Cycling of gravity, lmao

@tncorgi92

3 жыл бұрын

Not necessarily gravity, probably the most stress comes from the centrifugal spinning of the blades. But yeah, these are designed to last 20 to 25 years, in reality it's about half that.

@RPM22

3 жыл бұрын

this turbine was used for testing, it has nothing to do with it being broken or fatigued.

@brendancooney9401

3 жыл бұрын

not true, it was a test facility. the real things are now going up elsewhere

How to order the following

How can you not like this?

I read comments during the commercials.

The lower member and inclined tension struts were insufficiently severed as clearly can be seen at 1.23 really indicating stupidly poor lateral explosive control. If I were there I would have sacked everyone and used cordite and intumescent flame-cutting PVA, like we used to use in the Navy.

@carlroberts7830

3 жыл бұрын

IS THAT WHY YOUR OUT ON DAY PASS

@gordbaker896

3 жыл бұрын

Prima cord. 2 loops.

looks much better.

When nuclear site can be less than 20 acres and power half a million homes, why do we stand these on every viewpoint of our landscape? Just amazes me how nuclear and hydro that can be turned up and down and do so much get snubbed in favor of these things.

@Outside85

3 жыл бұрын

Because nuclear plants also produces completely useless garbage that needs to be contained for half a million years that no one wants to live near either the plant or the place they put the garbage?

@simon7790

3 жыл бұрын

There is a nuclear plant 1km away that ran for 35 years and closed in 1990. That will take another 80 years to decommission. Decommissioning will be complete in 2080, but safe storage of the waste fuel rods will take many hundreds of years more. Detals at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunterston_A_nuclear_power_station

So, why were these taken down?

@lantrick

3 жыл бұрын

Do you understand the words? "Wind Turbine Test Facility"

I had to laugh when the wind turbine came down and the outside door came flying off 🤗

Oil companies like to see this. Over and over and over again.

@dolphincliffs8864

3 жыл бұрын

They use a lot of lubricants and they have to be changed out often.

I'm not sure about the history of this wind turbine but so many of these things don't last very long. I've seen several taken down in my area after only a few years. There is a big wind farm in State College, PA and whenever I pass through approximately 1/3 aren't working.

@giacomopiovano9631

3 жыл бұрын

Hi This turbine was installed to perform stress test and observe structural integrity This turbines in particular is meant to be installed in the sea but is much more convenient to put it on land during this particular tests Obviously the get demolished afterwards because they end up very worn out A typical wind turbine (I mean made at least 10 years ago) can last more than 25 years if they get appropriate maintenance. About your wind farm I don’t know where it is and how old are the turbines there Generally the causes of a wind turbine not working for long periods of time are maintenance,unwinding of the cables or they ended their working life and are waiting demolition I hope I helped a bit :)

@gleonard1850

3 жыл бұрын

That's cause they were made in china

The future of wind power in Texas 2022! 😁

Finally someone is getting smart and getting rid of those things.

@lantrick

3 жыл бұрын

Do you understand the words? "Wind Turbine Test Facility"

That is friggen huge... Id love to strip some copper wire out of it.

We need to get this crew to norway. Lots of work here

I would bet that this wind turbine never recouped it's contruction cost.

I know why. Now . The Distance arrangement Between two wind Turbine had to be that Far away ! Allow to leave Some room for it to fell Down ! God bless

A bit quicker to remove than a power station!

@calvinsmith3952

3 жыл бұрын

A power station produces 2000 Megawatts, a wind turbine produces 2 Megawatts of course it’s going to be easier

this is what they should do with all wind turbines

@freedomforever6718

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Wind turbines are unreliable especially when you need the power most. They're absolutely worthless in cold weather.

👍👍👍

WOOW

@TheLoizeauxGroupLLC

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the video!

I love windmills

I take it ALL of the tower can be recycled?????????????

Huh. I thought it got struck by lightning.

I would love to have one of the turbine towers for a house

@tomrogers9467

3 жыл бұрын

Hope you like stairs. Lots of stairs. Circular stairs.

Wrecking stuff: dream job!

Demolition In Scotland Uk

This needs to happen to ALL wind turbines!

Scotland is scarred by these monstrosities feel free to knock a few down please.....

And many more to follow.

Needed repair..

The craziness of renewable energy.

Great, I was working in the field of windpower. I am so happy, that again one monster is removed. It has killed enough birds and insects. But do not forget the concrete in the ground! Hope, that this technology is history soon!

it's like watching a tree fall

From what I understand I don't think wind tubines ever met the criteria that was expected from them. Not to mention they are a bit of an eyesore. And yes, I do understand that this was an experimental model whose time was done.

More non-biodegradable refuse to be buried someplace (fossil fuels used for the tools to cut it up, fossil fuels for the vehicles to haul the pieces away and fossil fuels for the excavators to bury it)

@crabbinmoose8583

3 жыл бұрын

Cause and effect escapes most people who lack critical thinking skills. That's how these things get built. It is so refreshing to read your post and know that I'm not the only one who digs deeper into the main issues which often cause these professional swindlers alot of grief when their exposure takes place. 30 second attention span conditioning won't work on us my friend! Preach on!

This is me after locking myself out of my apartment.

I think that I shall never see A turbine lovelier than a tree. Indeed, unless all turbines fall I'll never see a tree at all! (with apologies to Ogden Nash)

Senator bought the adjacent property and didn't want it around... But voted for its funding....

I thought it was the Green New Deal!

@lantrick

3 жыл бұрын

Do you understand the words? "Wind Turbine Test Facility"

They will all go that way when the subsidies disappear.

Ends up in a landfill? Solar panels has a 20 year life cykel. Windturbines 10 year. Then you must make new blades? Nuke has 50 year but leaves a radioactive footprint.

Looks very cool falling. That’s the greenie renewable power generation in a nutshell. For the millions of dollars those wind power towers cost. The lifespan seams very short and expensive for such unreliable power sores

@justanutherguy2338

3 жыл бұрын

"Wind Turbine Test Facility" there's the reason it's coming down. normal lifespan is 25+ years with a payback of 6-8 years. This is Scotland. Take a look at the annual wind for this region and then say unreliable.

@Predator42ID

3 жыл бұрын

I didn't think the things even had a life span. Now I see why more and more people are entering the nuclear field. Nuclear power is cleaner, smaller, and gives enormous bang for the buck. Also still improving, Wind and solar can only go so far.

Everyone in Texas right now should see this....

@keithmills778

3 жыл бұрын

Why? It has nothing to do with frozen natural gas-powered generating facilities. Some Texas wind turbines had problems, but the rest actually did their job and exceeded the expected power generation over last weekend. And turbines work just fine in cold climates--northern states, Canada, northern Europe. They just need to be managed by people who understand that it sometimes gets cold.

@amyrichard3203

3 жыл бұрын

So they can add to their own reality created by Faux News?

Ah, those grey sky’s...don’t miss them at all

...and a countless number of birds rejoice! Nice work. These albatrosses never produce as much energy as it takes to manufacture , install, and maintain.

@robnamowicz8073

3 жыл бұрын

Yesterday in a radio interview some 'expert' was talking about BTU production workers. One coal worker produces 15 times the power as a windmill or solar panel worker. Green energy is insanity. Just ask Texas.

This should happen to all of them.

@paullee5573

3 жыл бұрын

Okay. Thats fine if you want to pay much more for the power you consume. Stop whineing and get a life. Loser.

@timrileyj10

3 жыл бұрын

They are a nuisance , noisy, light pollution, do not produce enough power, will reduce your ability to sell your land and the property value will go down. No one wants to live near those stupid things.

@shovelguggelheim8454

3 жыл бұрын

@@paullee5573 Resorting to insults automatically means that you have no argument and have, therefore, already lost the argument. As for your comment on costs then compare France with Germany. France went nuclear whilst Germany went wind and solar. France has about a tenth of the greenhouse gasses and electricity that costs about half that of Germany.

Every one of those windmills in this country need to come down. Huge giant joke.

They want to put 50 windmills from Buffalo, NY to Cleveland, OH in Lake Erie. Lake Erie was a very polluted lake, after 40 yrs all those chemicals / products are now under the sediment. Digging up the lake will release those chemicals back into the water. Also, any spillage from the windmills will hurt the lake environment

One less bird shredder, good stuff.

Ommmmg

Nice? You PAY........!!!!!!!!

Best thing that could've ever happened to these eye sores. Plus they cause more pollution during their manufacturing than it says they reduce.

Only another 5,000 to go......

boi

Should have sold it to a bitcoin farmer.

These monstrosities are a blight on the landscape, have a huge footprint ecologically to create and have a relatively short lifespan. The idea of renewable energy through wind turbines is one of the greatest follies of our time.

@stanleyadamson912

3 жыл бұрын

I agree 100 percent, they are useless

@Meddled

3 жыл бұрын

A lot have been installed on moorland across Scotland. Nobody wants to quantify the carbon released by displacing and disturbing peat, because peat is very sensitive to trampling, drying out etc. You need to sink thousands of tonnes of concrete to build a turbine plinth, and there is never a plan to recover the concrete at the end of the turbine life cycle. You can't just turf over them with peat and pretend you've restored the habitat that was there before. People ring-fence the carbon offset to the turbine itself rather than the access roads, crane pads etc being installed on untouched peat.

@chris76-01

3 жыл бұрын

And they keep building more of them each day😆

@reddwarfer999

3 жыл бұрын

@@stanleyadamson912 And as I type amost one quarter of the UK' electricity is being generated by them and it isn't even particularly windy. Yeah, completely useless.....

Next Stop: Palm Springs, California !! *Get Rid of Them !!*

Great job , I can think of many more of these useless things that should get the same treatment.

@bigmart932

3 жыл бұрын

I'd say coal power plants should get the axe first.

@DatsOdd

3 жыл бұрын

@@bigmart932 Finally a level-headed person in the comments section!

If you do work New England, I'm available to film your work with my drone. Check my recent uploads.

Well that’s the best thing I’ve seen all week- how to immediately improve the skyline! This needs to be the fate of all the useless wind turbines 👍

@13yearsaprepperr.jtilbury.51

3 жыл бұрын

AGREE 100%

@JAMESWUERTELE

3 жыл бұрын

I hate them also!

@shaundonnelly2019

3 жыл бұрын

So you'd all rather good ol'nuclear power plants then, yeah great thinking there

buy shares in coal for the grandchildren and they'll be rich in years to come when they start mining it again.

@bobvincent4841

3 жыл бұрын

Isn't that the truth! You said it. You know some fat cats are buying up as much coal equity as they can, pennies on the dollar, now that they've manipulated a worthlessness of the industry. Like, corn, wheat, hogs, cattle, many others. And now last year, oil, negative value!?! Really!? Someone's gonna, and HAS BEEN benefiting from all this manipulation, back and forth evaluations of the markets.