This is one of my favourite FC episodes in recent memory. Helen is a rare combination of great presenter and brilliant mind and she oozes positivity and enthusiasm. From the opening shot of the turbine to Roberts excellent footnote, wonderful. Others might enjoy the car stuff but this is what I love. Thank you.

More of this please. Car reviews can be found everywhere but other topics like this one are hard to find.

@CozyAlgorithmCave

2 жыл бұрын

and sadly too much on this topic on youtube etc. is full of misinformation and fud campaigns :(

@RoadRashSpirit

2 жыл бұрын

Absoluteley, I started watching fully charged because of Robert visiting Brit wind and looking at other technologys. Early on they did a pole that I think was 50/50 cars vs technology, the channel then heavily went into cars. I did watch a fair bit of it but to be honest in the last 2 years Ive stopped watching most of the episodes and only tune in if something like this video pops up or Rob has one of his rant..ehem news videos... but I bet ive missed half off them these days with the algoryth and such. I think its great that EV's are becoming more numerous but theres only so many videos of cars you will never afford that you want to watch.

@markfla

2 жыл бұрын

@@RoadRashSpirit Just have a Think.... another great youtube channel covers this kind of stuff.

@RoadRashSpirit

2 жыл бұрын

@@markfla funnily enough that's became my regular channel a long time back. There's 2 other channels hosted by Americans matt farrel and Joe something lol

@88njtrigg88

2 жыл бұрын

@@CozyAlgorithmCave Exactly & agreed. How much energy did it take the manufacture/produce and what is the designed life ? That way l can calculate efficiency.

The car stuff is ok but Im here for stuff like this!

@davidsamways

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, more of this.

@tomfox2343

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed!

@Muppetkeeper

2 жыл бұрын

Me too. Cars can save some CO2, but in reality, solar, batteries and heat pumps each do much more with much less materials.

@andrewhiggins8873

2 жыл бұрын

@@Muppetkeeper yes this is the reality at the moment

@maickelwand9100

2 жыл бұрын

Agree with you

Yes, considering your footnote, Robert, Helen is an incredibly professional presenter, on a par with the best out there in the mainstream media, backed up with a lot of scientific knowledge. She is an absolute gem! Your other presenters are great, too! :)

@IanKath

2 жыл бұрын

Her style reminds me of the brilliant Prof Brian Cox.

@toyotaprius79

2 жыл бұрын

Seconded

@Syncronizeification

2 жыл бұрын

That's because she is a "professional presenter" she presented loads of science shows on bbc

@sadiqmohamed681

2 жыл бұрын

@@Syncronizeification She's also a real physicist who teaches at UCL and does research in climate science. She started presenting at the BBC on "Horizon".

@SWR112

2 жыл бұрын

@@IanKath just with less travel than Brian 😂

Just had to briefly pause halfway through to comment. On a really really crap news day, this is just so welcome & wonderful. Brilliantly explained, endlessly positive, totally uplifting, gorgeous to look at. Thanks all!

@fullychargedshow

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, that is so wonderful to hear, makes all the effort worthwhile

@richardlangley90

2 жыл бұрын

What an awesome comment...and so true with regard to current news.

@trevorvanbremen4718

2 жыл бұрын

Endlessly positive??? I thought these wind turbines generated AC so it's only positive 1/2 the time!

Incredible engineering, incredible production values.

@88njtrigg88

2 жыл бұрын

How much energy did it take the manufacture/produce, what is the designed life ? That way l can calculate efficiency.

@jjhbhd520

2 жыл бұрын

@@88njtrigg88 Turbines have an energy and carbon payback time of approximately 6 months.

Thank you, Fully Charged, for covering wind generation!! SO many people are talking EV's, which is great and all, but very few cover wind power and how it's growing and developing and impacting our energy generation. The Haliade is an AMAZING machine!!

@johndoh5182

2 жыл бұрын

Which, to power all those BEVs you need a lot more electricity. So, the scale is quite large, but it's certainly feasible.

I work in the offshore wind industry and this is an excellent video. It describes the challenges and opportunities for offshore wind really well. People definitely don't realise how big the next generation of wind turbines are.

@dpranjko

2 жыл бұрын

Hi colleague! Where and for whom are you working? Greetings from GE onshore 😉

@loualex6925

2 жыл бұрын

its a nightmare to maintain

An amazing feel when one of your favorite youtube channels actually features a project that I am proud to have been a part of. Amazing project by GE, SIF and Pondera.

whoever chose the music (and of course whoever composed it) did a really great job. goosebumps!

The most insane fact is that this isn't even the largest turbine in the world. The largest one is the SG 14-222 with 222 m diameter, and soon there will be a 236 m turbine.

@unbelieveXP

2 жыл бұрын

don't forget MySE 16.0-242 with 242m diameter

@iain3713

2 жыл бұрын

It’s developing incredibly quickly

@Naxxization

2 жыл бұрын

and the new 15MW vesta allso

@noahbody9782

2 жыл бұрын

Of course no one ever talks about the carbon footprint resulting from the construction, maintenance and transmission infrastructure of these systems. And that it will all need to to be disposed of and rebuilt after 30 years. Not to mention the environmental damage these vast arrays do to costal sea life. As long as the gaping ignorant see spinning blades in the wind they will be happy.

@iain3713

2 жыл бұрын

@@noahbody9782 of course people do talk about it, and there is a standardised measure for measuring the environmental impact of such projects. Wind turbines will payback the carbon needed to manufacture them in typically less than a year (of course this depends on what sort of grid you're adding them to and how they were manufactured).

What a fascinating and brilliantly presented video on an extremely important subject. Fantastic production quality and Helen Czerski presents it in a very knowledgeable and professional way. The scale of the latest generation Haliade offshore wind turbines is truly awesome and it's great to see the UK Government having committed to developing this vitally important source of energy generation. I was also struck by the way in which it is expected that power generated by offshore wind farms will be linked up as far as possible to take advantage of moving weather systems. A world where energy received by the whole planet can be shared. A very far cry from the truly awful news today from Ukraine.

@marksims5730

2 жыл бұрын

I agree with everything you have said and the only thing I can add to this is... they talked a lot about the UK experience and the UK is leading the world in this area, but how many UK companies are actually installing these amazing machines in the North Sea ?

With what's happening today, we need this stuff ASAP.

@Robert-cu9bm

2 жыл бұрын

The problem is, because we are shifting to renewables we are more reliant on Putin's gas. You need to has turbines to supplement renewables We need nuclear and fracking.

@alunrees313

2 жыл бұрын

Well have it on your doorstep not ours

@alunrees313

2 жыл бұрын

@@joim3480 there you have it , wind will never replace fossil fuels, you said it, China is building 13 coal fuelled energy plants, my mountains and landscape and historical sites have been destroyed for me and my grandchildren , they should go out at sea

@baronvonlimbourgh1716

2 жыл бұрын

Things are happening incredibly quickly. Both deployment and technological development.

@traianima

2 жыл бұрын

two words: nuclear energy

whats incredible is that 107m long blade is a not an assembly. its a single piece of composite material. constantly exposed to salty ocean air, storms, ice and wind tearing at it. the challenges of building something like this are pushing composite material science forward rapidly.

More reports on geothermal energy would be most welcome (nothing against wind).

I thought she would have taken the stairs up - it's only 492 feet after all. Seriously, what an amazing and huge turbine. We need these in bucket loads and soon! Great show as always. Keep up the good work.

I work at Vestas and have just come back from Denmark after looking at our new V236. Very proud to be part of this industry for the last 8 years where I've supported the V164 show in this video grow from the 6MW prototype to the first 10MW offshore turbine.

I think wind turbines are gorgeous ! Love to see more of them

@Robert-cu9bm

2 жыл бұрын

Not me, they ruin the natural beauty of the landscape.

@baronvonlimbourgh1716

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome examples of human capability.

Great episode, great presenter, super positive news that UK plans for 40 GW of off-shore wind. Amazing!

These kind of videos are truly fascinating!

I always love Helen's presentations, such a delight!

Fantastic. Really appreciate Helen's presenting approach. More of this please.

In a increasingly crap world, stuff like this cheers me up and gives me hope. Thanks. Now let’s see Uncle Roberts heat pump, and I can die happy.

Excellent production! Thanks for all you do.

Great stuff. Ireland's been running off >75% wind over the last week and we only have 1 offshore farm. Hoping we scale up massively and interconnect more of our grid. There is a lot of low hanging fruit that is there for the taking.

It amazes me that the bbc hasn’t snapped up this show and team. Better and more informative than anything on tv

We really need to massively scale up the storage side of the equation now

@PerErikKarlsson

2 жыл бұрын

Wonder if there could be any financial reason to but batteries strait in the wind turbines. Smooth out the generation from the individual windmill so you can have smaller cables going from it.

@oootoob

2 жыл бұрын

There are plenty of tech options that have been tested at scale, not just batteries, including things like liquified air, thermal storage, pumped hydro etc. The bigger problem is getting investment and facilitating the permitting and regulatory/ contractual environment to make it happen quicker - the UK is bogged down in red tape that inhibits a lot of progress.

@cyrusp100

2 жыл бұрын

Storage is not technically feasible right now to scale up to grid level. We'd get a much bigger bang for the buck by building interconnectors and eventually a global grid.

@vincentrobinette1507

2 жыл бұрын

I agree 100%. Wind and solar are pretty well developed, and, among the least expensive generators out there. The technology is actually quite mature. What needs to happen, is to get the cost of electrical energy storage down to a point, that when combined with wind and solar, renewables as a whole, can compete with the cheapest fossil generated electricity. No matter how good the equipment, the wind doesn't always blow, and obviously, solar panels don't generate at night. Without energy storage, intermittent renewable sources cannot exceed ~20% total grid capacity, without causing fluctuations that could cause instability in the grid. Grid scale electrical energy storage is an absolute must, for a 100% renewable sourced grid.

@UCCLdIk6R5ECGtaGm7oqO-TQ

2 жыл бұрын

EVs and an appropriate inter-connect standard. There's a potentially massive storage system.

Thanks for that, great presentation and has made me feel all optimistic

Very cool. Love seeing this, very uplifting and hope inducing

Excellent presentation, content, and production. Really good to see!

Thanks Helen, you put across the scale of this so well.

Love it. Wind makes so much sense. Really enjoy your presentations.

@richard8031

2 жыл бұрын

Bird blenders..!!!!

What a stunningly beautiful piece of mega-engineering. And what a beautifully stunning video - in fact, as a person not keen on heights, I actually felt a little queasy just watching it on-screen...! 😳

This is incredible top to bottom. The technology, the presentation, and the education on the technology. Awe inspiring stuff and very encouraging. Thank you Fully Charged. Thank you Helen. Thank you GE Renewable Energy.

Gotta love offshore wind 🌬

Great episode. A difficult subject for most of us but just so well explained by the brilliant Helen. Thanks so much and just keep these really interesting/fascinating subjects/topics coming.

1:20 Huge thumbs-up for that drone shot with tiny Helen on the platform for scale

Fabulous. Helen was so excited on top of the turbine, I half expected to see her start bouncing up and down, producing enough kinetic energy of her own to compete with that of the turbine itself. 😁😋

Thank you so much Helen 🙂

Absolutely amazing! Great production also

Seriously excellent! The production value of this is phenomenal. Hard to believe there would come a time where content produced on a "free website"" would rival that of anything put on commercial television. Well done!

@hughmarcus1

2 жыл бұрын

This isn’t ‘free’ fully charged plus is in effect, advertorial. The companies who appear on it are there to plug their wares or do a bit of corporate PR. If you notice the line of questioning is always very soft. No doubt the scripts are agreed in advance. Helen being allowed up on that platform with a large scarf is a case in point too. These places are normally very strict on PPE & that includes clothing. There’s no way a normal visitor to the site would have been permitted to wear that.

An excellent informative presentation - well done Helen and thank you - you're very brave to go to the top of the turbine - I wouldn't be able to do that - scared of heights!!!

@peterlittlejohn8933

2 жыл бұрын

I was getting giddy sitting in my chair. I prefer good old Terra Firma (ground level).... More Firma, Less Terra!

Interesting, informative, and I bet it was awesome going up in that massive turbine!

The platform on top of that thing is big enough to build a small house. Having a hidden home on top of an off-shore turbine would be very Bond villain. Enough energy to power thousands of homes, or enough energy to power one home and an unstoppable super laser?

@fullychargedshow

2 жыл бұрын

That may be the very best comment we've ever had on KZread.

@Gazer75

2 жыл бұрын

Hope you like using earplugs or muffs all day :P Wind turbines are not silent at all during operation.

@eemsg

2 жыл бұрын

@@Gazer75 I'm certain that any Bond villain who has the engineering resources to build an unstoppable superlaser could also figure out sound dampening.

There was a very smug woman on Radio 4's Question Time the other evening saying wind was a no hope-er because the wind didn't blow on one day last year. I hope she is watching this. Great news.

Brilliant video, simple explanations to relate to the scale of this wind turbine. As a retired CivilEngineer, I love these technical videos about large scale infrastructure. I would be interested in the design life and planned maintenance of these turbines to ensure longevity. 👍

Excellent and beautiful presentation. This is wind-power at the scale for out time - our mostly clean power. Thanks

The scale of that thing is absolutely bonkers! I also found big wind turbines beautiful when I traveled past a wind farm on a train. Something majestic in their relatively slow looking movement.

Did my mech eng thesis on windpower for residential use back in ‘81 - this, is unreal 😊

Kudos to Helen for taking us to the top of this ginormous wind turbine! Impressive!

Fully charged just reached the next level of quality content. Love this video. Robert miming at the end was an unexpected bonus.

@klaxoncow

2 жыл бұрын

I'm a little disappointed that Robert didn't do the "walking against a strong wind" mime. It's a classic that would have matched the video's topic, and we've all seen the "trapped in an invisible box" one too many times already.

Great, great episode. Very interesting. Energy harvesting topics is such a vast area. Colosal structure.

Absolutely fantastic!

Brilliant video. Stunning visuals, excellently presented.

This is the type of story that in these times, considering the emerging conflict in Europe that we must ALL PUSH FOR ENERGY INDEPENDENCE so that we can take out the need, desire, profit, loss and destruction that armed conflict costs us as a society. The sun and wind touches each nation and principality. Wave, Solar, Wind, are abundant and the ability to borrow their strength in order for us to be safe, warm, productive and happy is at our fingertips. I hope more INVESTMENT AND RESEARCH will go into all the ways we can responsibly harness and work in concert with nature because abundance is the natural way of nature. Thanks for continuing to bring stories like this Fully Charged Team. I remember when it was just Robert! This show continues to be a source of uplifting news, when I need it the most.

Outstanding info & presentation.

I wanna hear what it sounds like when spinning! I've been around much smaller on-shore turbines and they're not quiet, so I can only imagine how loud a massive off-shore turbine would be!

@undead890

2 жыл бұрын

They can be pretty loud, but because they are offshore, it's not too distracting.

@aaronsmith5433

Жыл бұрын

" says you! " - Moby Dick

You guys mentioned the first wind turbines in the uk being 1991 in the video but I remember doing a project in school in 1989 on the wind turbines stationed down near Pembrey. Fascinated me ever since - amazing how much they have changed in that 30 year period. 👍

Wonderful content, thanks Helen!

What an impressive report. There is definitely a future for wind power in the UK

I love this. I also love the car review stuff but I would love to see way more of this stuff, maybe even a separate channel, one for EVs and one for renewable energy. Love it!

WHOA! That turbine is HUGE! I see it’s got a GE logo on the side too!

Totally a solvable challenge, good note to end on. Great video 😁

Thank you for a very interesting clip! 👍👍

This are some great news. Thank you.

In a world seemingly rife with turmoil and indecision, just listening to Dr. Czerski's optimism and enthusiasm is not only entertaining, but comforting. She brought a sense of hope to the conversation when she wrapped up her presentation by stating it "seems like a solvable challenge".

This was a great video. Informative and entertaining. Even the comments section was a refreshingly passive read.

This is excellent. Thanks for creating quality content like this - a real inspiration

Great stuff - more from Helen please! 😁👍

This was just beautiful, almost like a short film.

Thanks

Great presentation- my only comment is that the wind doesn't push on the blade to make it turn (like a windmill)- rather the wind flowing past creates lift (like an aeroplane wing) which makes the blades turn - which is alot more effective.

@Robert-cu9bm

2 жыл бұрын

It actually does both. Lift is created by pushing on the blade and the low pressure. Same with planes That's why the blade can pivot depending on the wind speed.

Well done Helen. Great episode

Helen is very clever which comes across in her presentations therefore making them interesting good to watch

Great programme, very well explained/

Love Helen’s enthusiasm. 😊

The aerodynamics of those blades is worth a show! Unfortunately I am sure the GE would not want to talk about them in detail, just as they would not want to talk about the generator itself in detail.

Amazing episode, Helen is just great!

Impressive. More please.

Come to Denmark, the birthplace of modern Windmill technology, and see Vestas 15MW windmill!

gorgeous drone shots!

Great episode team.

"The wind speed goes higher as it goes higher". I love the precision language of an engineer.

When you see them in the distance you really don’t get a grasp of just how big they are. Absolutely fascinating

This was good, thank you very much

That opening drone shot !!! 👍👍👍👌

The world is crazy. It is a relief that there are still people like Helen around who do the right stuff

Amazing loved this.

Helen always hosts the coolest videos!

Great episode, really interesting, and love having Helen presenting them. You know you're going to get science and facts, presented in a really accessible way. I wonder what the lifetime costs of the Dogger Bank wind farm will be compared to the new nuclear...

@marksims5730

2 жыл бұрын

From the wind point of view, the slated lifetime is 30 years, then all the infrastructure can be removed completly from the sea bed.

@CharlesHaworth

2 жыл бұрын

A good proxy answer is the electricity price which was requested to support the projects. Doggerbank ~40£/MWh and Hinkley point 90£/MWh.. more than double

Having worked in a port it is useful to have the ship to shore cranes for scale.

Fantastic video, beautiful topic, incredible presenter, she really should do more, just great all around!

Would love to see you do a piece on Exergyn's shape memory alloy technology. Thanks for this one!

I f-ing love wind turbines! They look and feel so Sci-Fi!

What a fabulous story of amazing technology, presented by the lovely Helen too, winner winner. Superbly filmed too. I get the gut feeling I'm really looking at the future with these huge and elegant windmills of electricity, as the way everything will be powered, post and/or replacing fossil fuels. And such beautiful structures, almost calming to see...

One of the amazing episode.

Imagine 400 meter diameter turbines. Not everything in Texas is the biggest. So I want to friendly challenge the people in Texas to build an even bigger one😉 Big thumbs up for this episode 👍

@akyhne

2 жыл бұрын

GE is an American company...

@ALMX5DP

2 жыл бұрын

@@akyhne what does that have to do with Texas?

@alanmay7929

2 жыл бұрын

@@ALMX5DP GE is an American company end of story!

@ALMX5DP

2 жыл бұрын

@@alanmay7929 is it a Texas company?

@akyhne

2 жыл бұрын

@@ALMX5DP Just as little as to say the Texans should build bigger.

Great cinematic footage going on 👍

Best episode yet.

Amazing piece of engineering.