Talk about breaking wind!

What happens to the 2000 tons of concrete and steel under the ground that hold these towers up?

Why were these particular wind turbines removed and what happens to the parts afterwards?

I do wind turbine blade demolition in the San Francisco area but never a whole tower. I know that a lot of the shorter towers were removed so they could get the wind from higher up. These look more modern. Why don't they reuse the tower and put all new components on them?

I replaced dozens of blade pitch proportioning valves in those turbines back in the day. And hundreds of gallons of hydraulic oil and zillions of O-rings. The first turbines I worked on that had man lifts in them, previously everything I climbed was just a ladder. Sorry to see them go.

@Matthew-vm7qi

2 жыл бұрын

About how old do you suppose these are?

@kurosaki155

2 жыл бұрын

Do you know why they are being demolished?

So , the renewable energy needs renewing , looks like an expensive alternative.

21? That common core math?

Revenge of the birds! :) Great controlled demolition as usual CDI.

Nuclear's looking better as a power source. Sierra Club approved.

I see that the cutting charges were positioned in relation to the wind. So you made a cut on about half of the circumference of the base, toward the wind. And then just wait for the wind ( and gravity ) to work for you. Nice

We’ve got to think of a better way to reuse these turbines. We must make them modular so we don’t have to keep blowing them up.

@freighter1097

2 жыл бұрын

As someone who has built them, they are modular. The tower is 3 to 5 sections depending on the height and model. The nacelle, hub and 3 blades are all independent pieces as well. It would also take days to disassemble things down to replace a nacelle or tower section. Then another week or two to recommission all the components. Doable? Yes. Efficient? Not when you can replace the entire thing and recycle the old one.

Off to the landfill they go!

And that's the way we save the planet! Very green!

21 huh? Guess I can't count!

Great work. Awesome!

Sounds like good pre-felling work and subsequent mobilization and felling. Great work!

Very brilliant video!

It's the goddamn sounds! I just want to hear them live if they sound this amazing even from a phone!!

@inco-gneito7543

2 жыл бұрын

You should hear it on a home theater with 2 HSU VTF-15H MK2 Subwoofers. It shakes the entire house.

Can you do a video showing all 21 in succession? Were these turbines ones that were damaged by the ice storm?

@wendyc7730

2 жыл бұрын

I would like to see that too. I wonder if they're too far apart to to get a good wide angle of all of them. They possibly could be scattered around the land not all next to each other.

@danielmorris4676

2 жыл бұрын

These were old, inefficient turbines without the most up-to-date technology. Winter ice storms did not damage them.

@najaB76

2 жыл бұрын

Very few (no?) wind turbines were damaged by the winter weather. The failures of the power grid were almost entirely at gas/coal power plants.

@elijahmartineau7403

2 жыл бұрын

I saw that the last one had caught on fire at the generator. Not sure about the other two

@drtmi8789

2 жыл бұрын

@@danielmorris4676 a wind turbine is inefficient in it's design to begin with. Newer technology won't help wind turbines.

WHY?

It is painful for wind turbine workers to see their work place demolished

Didn't see 21.Maybe 4. You owe me.

What it just 21 turbines in sight, or one of 21 demolitions?

Are those turbine going to be replaced by new ones?

@zebrashark23

2 жыл бұрын

hope not

Good..Very nice to get rid of garbage eyesores..

You know, you could take the blades off before they came down causing less ground damage

Its cool to see how they crumple from the blades first then just explode

I wasn't sure which way it was going to fall at first

Only saw 3 not 21. This is not a Blackjack game.

These look like fairly old turbines and all machines have a service lifetime, but any idea how old?

@t5ruxlee210

2 жыл бұрын

The service lifetime probably coincides with the end of Depreciation Tax Deduction allowances, the end of other assorted subsidies ponied up by the taxpayers, etc.

@electrolytics

2 жыл бұрын

@@t5ruxlee210 Absolutely on the right track there.

@halfmehalfchris

2 жыл бұрын

@@t5ruxlee210 ha, was wating for the first anti-wind comment. Are you saying that the fuel cost (free) now out weighs the electricity wholesale price? Those 21 turbines would have been selling $5 to $10 million dollars of electricity per year. At $70 / MWh. Look up a table of generation costs of different sources.

@adodgygeeza

2 жыл бұрын

3MW land based turbines, not very old at all.

What is the wall thickness of the steel?

So much for sustainable…

Why are there so many of these being demolished? They are meant to be the new source of power and being built, not removed.

@wendyc7730

2 жыл бұрын

They only have a life span of 20 years or so. I just recently learned this. When they first started talking about turbines back in the '80s and '90s, no ever discussed their longevity.

@ke6gwf

2 жыл бұрын

When they get old and fully depreciated, they take them down and replace them with the newer generation of higher output and lower maintenance costs.

@DaveChimny

2 жыл бұрын

Lifespan is over. In the last decade those machines were made much more effective, so it's a simple calculation with the result it's better to invest in more powerful ones in the same spot than to maintain the old ones.

@electrolytics

2 жыл бұрын

These things were never meant to be a serious source of power. Windmills were a serious source of power 300 years ago.

@rayford21

2 жыл бұрын

It costs more to purchase and maintain an intermittent source of energy than the money these ugly behemoths can produce. They can never generate enough intermittent power to pay for themselves... unless you count the subsidies the energy companies get thanks to our bank accounts.

Oi, you said twenty one yet we got one. Where's the other twenny?

Nice video.

Must’ve run out of wind.

What goes up must come down, such is the laws of the universe.

At $750,000.00 a windmill. Did it ever pay for itself?

@zebrashark23

2 жыл бұрын

nope...

@erbewayne6868

2 жыл бұрын

Look into the tax desperation that's where a lot of the green is applied.

Why can't we reuse them.

0:30 me when I fart

Build back better ?

I’m not good at math, but I only counted three…

Need to clear the land for more oil exploration.

@freighter1097

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, since oil is infinite and we will never run out. /s

21? I saw 3.

Why? Shalom you are loved

1:12 old windmill

Why were they demolished? Lack of wind?

@kimsutherland977

2 жыл бұрын

Hopefully. Vile things.

@SuperBaconMan999

2 жыл бұрын

They are being replaced with newer models.

Super widoki

Well...That's green.

That was only one.

👍👍

Everybody knows that the bird is the word LLC bbbbb

Why remove them when we are still paying the bill

Good ole, Green energy.. 🥸

Yea that voice of america towers, sad to see the future fall.

Good Riddance.

😎😎😎😎

Renewable Resources lol

I d8dnt get to comment 9n the voice 9f america but it was cool demo but sad to see radio towers ridded i mean they were futur9stic at 9ne time.

i was hoping to see a line of 21 falling. shucks.

sweet....21 going down in tx... out here in so cal. we are Putin up..28..news one...:-)

Anyone else see the irony in this?

These are the biggest waste ! All this stuff goes into landfills nothing is recycled except the copper something! Why can’t they reuse the base tower and the generator housing ,and or the generator itself? But they don’t ! This is not green in any matter !

@kriswelsh3844

2 жыл бұрын

Blades and nacelle canopy go into landfill, the rest is recycled. Shame to see this demolished, if disassembled properly most parts can be refurbished. But guess the owner did not want to spend the money on crane rent and heavy transport.

i know lets build them in the inner suburbs

Thank God ! Keep up the good work!

What a waste of a good generator. My question is why???

Simultaneously would have been better.

More debris to permanently clutter up the landfills.

All of that fiberglass going into it's own private little landfill. How's that "green" taste now?

Now post the video of you picking up all those fiberglass scraps in that field. Oh wait. It's Texas. Environmental quality standards don't exist.

but but but they are so eco friendly and so good lol

These are not old Wind turbines! What an absolute waste why could these of not of been repaired or had extended life service

So much for your green energy.

The birds are happy, but seriously, look at the waste of resources by taking these things down. Can't they be retrofitted with newer components?

Not even 20 years old

Well it's was a good start, but looks like you have plenty left to go. When you finish, we got a bunch a the gd things here in PA you can take care of.

take em all down

Sofar for green energy....blasting turbines for sure is not green at all. They could have at least tried to reuse the structure of the tower and replace the turbine. Now you are left with a conrete base in the ground...This is a realy bad example of non reusability of existing "green" infrastructure. I am not even speaking of all the debris flying around, how many of that fine debris will not be removed by a cleanup?

Looks just like AOC's green new deal. Sorry I had to.

Yessir, good drop. Can you imagine all of these piled up at the landfill? They can't be recycled (fiberglass). Not so green, huh?

Excellent!! Thousands more to go!

@kimsutherland977

2 жыл бұрын

You evidently share a lpt of people's sentiment. Vile things. A massive knee jerk reaction to eliminating fossil fuels. They don't tell you how many thousands tonnes of concrete go into the bases. Now if I am correct concrete is in top 5 polution of our planet. Blow them all up. Wind turbine syndrome..... Apparently all in our heads???? A bit like Doctors promoting cigarettes in the 50s. Its a joke.

The birds will be happy without having to dodge those blades.

Wonderful to see them go - they should never have been built in the first place. But it hasn't touched the giant slabs of underground concrete that supported them. What will happen to the concrete?

Not so green after all

😅😂🤣Hopefully many more to come in the future. The investors who bribe lawmakers for taxpayer payouts to build these things would be wise to invest in other LLCs to dismantle these. Win-win for them, lose-lose for taxpayers.

Guess they are all going to junk yard now??

Ahhh, green energy at its finest!

@mikefrech1123

2 жыл бұрын

No fossil fuel or nuclear powered generators have ever been demolished. Right?

@Lizpolygigiblissgirl

2 жыл бұрын

@@mikefrech1123 maybe you should upload a video of all those demolitions... it would be great porn for greenies

@TheCadman67

2 жыл бұрын

@@mikefrech1123 Yes.... After decades! These are only 10- 20 yo And hard to recycle ....

@NineCylinderDiesel

2 жыл бұрын

@@mikefrech1123 plenty have been demolished, but they generally have a much longer service life than wind turbines and produce far greater amounts of energy in that lifespan. The turbines in the Ocotillo desert in Southern California have reached the end of their usability and are less than 20 years old.

Biggest blight on the planet. Good riddance to them.

I love to watch these! Kuz they suck!! Can see 2 out my back door now! Put them in Delaware!!

Well done. Knock them all down and recycle what’s left.

Good! Get rid of all these God awful monstrosities!!

Just think of all the oil burned in making the hundreds of yards of concrete, the fuel burned by the heavy equipment to dig the foundation, the crane transport to the site, and all the support vehicles. The steel, the rebar and tower, all that steel had to be manufactured, transported, fabricated, and then transported again to the job site. The blades.....lots of toxic epoxy, which takes a lot of electric ovens to cure, plus the fibreglas production, transportation etc. All these various steps, not to mention all of the personal transportation requirements of the hundreds or thousands of workers required, required a lot of old school oil in one way or another. The gen pub just sees the finished product and goes "oh, free energy."

@bobroberts2371

2 жыл бұрын

What sort of alternative do you propose?

Goodbye wind turbine!

Great use of money.

that's why wind doesn't work.

I thought wind turbines were good for a 100 years as the internals could be swapped out easily as they got worn..at least that was what we were sold. The greenest energy on the planet.....

The virgin wind turbine vs the chad demolition charge. Winner chad demolition charge.

But the environmentalists said wind and solar is the future...

All that good old green Chinese energy

A lot of wasted money in my book