10 Wind Turbine Failures Caught On Camera

[@wun1gee]

I like how when he was talking about the recyclable components, he didn't say anything about the blades. Which are largely composite and can't be recycled. They're disposed of by digging a long, deep hole and shoving them in. Someone else's problem for another time.

[@Evo836]

Yes so much for recyclable for the 'greens' as I worked for a company that restored gearbox's to reuse.

[@cliffords2315]

Yea this was a Political Video,

[@CPOEDG]

um, they can be recycled. They can be ground up and mixed with concrete or asphalt in building products to bind the base material.

[@038Dude]

Yeah and that totaly justifies the insane effort, expense and actual damage to the enviroment that these extrotion mills generate. The fact that they can be ground up....

[@wun1gee]

@@038Dude Note that he didn't tell you that this isn't an industry-standard thing, it's one start-up company that claims they can make concrete stronger by using specific parts of the wind turbine blades. Their claims have yet to be proven and no engineer I've ever known would want to introduce a foreign element into their concrete... Especially one that is known for delaminating...

[@andiprogshop3097]

India should also try to be a world leader in holding its rivers clean

[@AyeCarumba221]

It would be nice if they would be a world leader and trying to keep their population in check. Does anybody on this planet think that 1.2 billion people is sustainable? I don’t care how clean your rivers are.

[@GrrMeister]

[@williamstanford7994]

Not to mention keeping it in their pants.

[@stephenrothwell8142]

Ooh, political. 😎😁😊👍🤗😎

[@stephenrothwell8142]

​@@williamstanford7994 oh my fucking god. Wow. Mate I love your reply. It's brutally honest. I nearly had a fucking stroke when I read it. Truth is truth though. Take care matey 😎😎😎😎

[@Hogger280]

You are wrong about the recycling: When wind farms reach their life spans (15 to 20 years) the old small generators are no longer wanted as new larger ones are more profitable(tongue in cheek as wind farms are NOT profitable and have to be subsidized!!) So the old ones are torn down, new larger concrete blocks put in the ground, new larger taller towers attached, and new larger generators and blades installed. Nothing of the old unit is worth recycling except perhaps the copper in the generator and even that may be too labor intensive to do as it has to be removed and melted down and re-extruded. Blades never last for the "life of the whole unit because the leading edges of the fiberglass blades deteriorate in about 8 years and have to be replaced! There is no good scenario here: these things are capital intensive and high maintenance, no recycling, and the ground on which a wind farm sits is usually leased at premium rates from the owners!! Again, wind energy is not free, it is so expensive that it has to be subsidized. Wind is capricious, so if you want an average of lets say 100 MW output, you have to build a farm with a capacity of 400 MW (because the average production is 25% of capacity). Can you imagine building a coal or NG power plant with a 400 MW capacity (which it can produce 24/7 350 days per year) and then throttling it back to a max of 100MW?!! The Power company would say that is crazy, and it is, but they don't say it about wind!! Furthermore the coal or NG plants can produce their power any time you want it. Wind farms are at the mercy of when the wind blows and that does not always coincide with demand!

[@atfstransformations7023]

Useless information for a 17 year old girl for me :/

[@Hogger280]

@@atfstransformations7023 It is useful to stop people from believing the Lie of "Green Energy" - it is nothing more than a new religion that is destructive, not only environmentally, but to society and prosperity in general!

[@ProwerTheFox7]

Thank you generic Facebook boomer. Return from whence you came.

[@icosthop9998]

TY @Hogger280 👍 Many *"Green🟢People"* can not handle the Truth ❕️

[@doonhamer252]

Truth

[@Hogger280]

No. 9 - the generator went of line leaving the blades free wheeling with no load. The controls should have feathered the blades and used the brakes to stop rotation. Imagine how many failures there have been that weren't caught on camera!

[@jacksimpson-rogers1069]

Wind powered electric generators, when they work, are quite marvelously cunning, and require great cleverness of design, and first class materials. It is a very sad shame that such cleverness should be wasted on something as fickle as the wind. But one of the not-quite-obvious facts is that wind-driven electric generators serve a few million power on-off switches far less well that the sails of a schooner do for a skipper who wants to get from here to there on an ocean. Are not our "Renewable energy" folk aware that fossil solar ousted "recent" or "direct" solar more than a century ago?

[@ErikWayne]

​@@jacksimpson-rogers1069😮😮😮😮😅

[@Mozart1220]

Shall we post some vids of Deepwater Horizon?

[@joewoodchuck3824]

Throughout many industries engineers know how to design things that don't break. But then the bean counters come in and start cheapening the designs. That's where the problems begin.

[@N_g_er]

@@jacksimpson-rogers1069I'm gay

[@SDsc0rch]

10:50 --- oh the sweet sweet irony EIGHT HUNDRED GALLONS OF OIL in a wind turbine!! HAHHAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!

[@tedfarkas]

I fail to see the irony--the oil is NOT being burned (during normal operations), therefore causing no pollution. It is used in HUGE quantities by all electric distribution companies in their transformers--for cooling

[@ShuRugal]

@@tedfarkas the small minded will grasp for any excuse to belittle something they don't understand.

[@Roufus2]

@@ShuRugalelegant ahh language but yeah you guys are right

[@ronkennedy8676]

True, but why. Theres so much evidence now they are a menance and one of the biggest tranfers of wealth to the wealthy​@@ShuRugal

[@jonasthesen]

@@tedfarkas Issue is when they do fail, that oil will pollute the ground water and its surroundings.

[@jaysanders7472]

The blades are not recyclable they just bury them and hope for the best. Very good for the environment I think.

[@stephenmcdonagh2795]

And they cut great swathes of migrating birds to pieces. Every turbine is a failure of governments appeasing moronic environmentalists.

[@rongenung]

I doubt that's a universal practice---especially in the USA, the UK and Western Europe.

[@betsybattles2696]

@@rongenung it is universal practice, there are blade graveyards in every country using turbines. The US has several. The blades are fiberglass which is non recyclable.

[@FortisRising]

They’ve actually found several ways to recycle them, a lot of it starts by cutting them up into sections that can be repurposed, art, benches, etc. They’ve even started making bridges out of the materials.

[@hivdetective7229]

In total, about 80 to 90 percent of the components in a dismantled plant, i.e., metals, the electrical system, the foundations and the tower, can be returned to recycling cycles. The remaining 10 to 20 percent of the old plant will be disposed of properly.

[@Peter-pv8xx]

Really good for the environment, the massive amount of concrete to anchor them, the energy that goes into making and mining all the copper and other metals needed, the chemicals to make the fiberglass blades the amount of oil needed to operate them, the fact that the blades can't be recycled, yep real environmentally friendly.

[@eastcoastandy2905]

Yep, just like your good old motor car.

[@billgrandone3552]

How mant trees do we cut down each year for poles. How many gallons of creosote (an oil derivative) goes into preservatives to keep them insect free. How much coal has to be mined , transported by rail and truck and thwn chushed to powder and burned and what becomes of the ash? How many miles of railroad track has to be laid and maintained to deliver that coal or oil. How much steel goes into high power lines not to mention the copper and other metals needed to transport the electricity.

[@2ndfloorsongs]

It usually takes them one to two years to become carbon neutral, after that it's all gravy.

[@markklausen813]

Oh, yeah, and coal-fired or nuclear powerplants cost nothing to build and last forever.

[@billgrandone3552]

No shit! Really? The POINT i am makeing here is that wooden poles that still deliver electric power also use a lot of natural resources and oil and chemicals. But in the near future in case you have not been tuned in, these may be replaced by underground systems like cable is now.@@gretchenk.2516

[@nunyabidness117]

A massive windmill made of steel and fiberglass that is a blight on the countryside, shreds birds, and has to be rebuilt every 20 years really doesn't seem all that green.

[@coreywilson701]

I hate birds

[@HongyaMa]

Move@@coreywilson701

[@sophiaherschel567]

i hate birdhaters@@coreywilson701

[@SteelheadTed]

And is full of gallons of oil that has to be change regularly.

[@coreywilson701]

Changing oil is easy. Used oil heats my house and garage

[@N-Scale]

Yes , all of that is keeping the planet GREEN !!!!!

[@bradobbink6564]

would like to know how many ice that would have been.

[@christopherbeattie3126]

The amount of steel, concrete and copper in a windmill makes you question how *clean* they are

[@nunyabidness674]

think it's more a case of the lesser of two evils. The paint alone on those is some evil stuff.

[@carbonized5114]

They aren't, the blades in particular aren't even close to what you would call recyclable, meaning you spend just as much as you would to make a new one but you only get back a fraction of the materials used and still have to actually remake the new ones. Recycling in general is just not very efficient and very expensive. Not saying ** it do whatever either, need something better.

[@viperdemonz-jenkins]

not clean at all.

[@wazza33racer]

they only pay back over their 25 year life time the amount of energy used to make them, transport and install them. Its fossil fuel energy pretending to be "green".

[@Tom-dt4ic]

That comment makes me question how intelligent you are.

[@krystalstarrett6760]

Do politicians still get kick back $ if wind mill fails?

[@robertbutler8004]

@Krystalstarrett6760 They would have already cashed their cheque.

[@pravoslavn]

Yeah ... 10% for the Big Guy !

[@jabbra1837]

Yes, because billionaire oil tycoons would never give politicians backhanders...

[@RHR-221b]

*Money Talks. Big Money SHOUTS!* Stay free, k. R 👋🏻 🕊

[@LizFromDecencyUnited]

I was waiting for the #1 clip to be of the turbine that caught on fire with the 2 guys still trapped on top of it. To this day, it's still one of the most tragic, saddest clips I've ever seen of a turbine failure. The fear, the horror and the eventual despair those two men must have felt, trapped up there, knowing there was nothing in the world that could save them...... so incredibly sad.

[@Chris_at_Home]

I used to do tower work for communications and the idea of being inside one of these has no appeal to me. We were even trained in going off the tower repelling down, hooking on a stranded coworker playing unconscious and then lowering us both to the ground. We all had to do this. It can be a quick escape.

[@gordonschedel368]

You’re exactly right those wind turbines are very dangerous, and I don’t think they’re a good idea at all they’re killing birds are killing a livestock, and they’re actually killing people

[@robanderson473]

It's a pity they couldn't get a helicopter to winch them off.

[@Smileythesilent]

I think about that every time I see a windfarm, it just makes me so sad.

[@borleyboo5613]

And you see them hugging each other either for comfort or to say ‘goodbye’. It’s horrifying and, as you say, very, very sad.

[@RoosterGardens]

What about the acres of fiberglass blades that can't be reused, or recycled?

[@Morpheus187]

What about nuclear fuel rods that are spent? What do you do with those?

[@tarpanc34]

@@Morpheus187 most likely dumped in the ocean far far away...lol

[@emperor_rat]

​@@tarpanc34Salt mines

[@dougtheslug6435]

They're shredding them up and mixing them in concrete now.

[@brianredmond4919]

Why so concerned about that when we dump tons of other stuff everyday ?.

[@toddgardner2826]

There used to be a discipline that took every possibility for everything that could go wrong and took the time to figure out how to avoid these disasters. That discipline was called engineering.

[@byteme11]

When you've got idiots like the australian energy minister pushing for wind and solar like there's no tomorrow, engineering is an inconvenience that his ideology can do without.

[@cfierle]

The guy filming the railroad crossing gets the who can say "OH MY GOD" the most times Award.

[@jamesm6638]

And now everyone hires for diversity instead of skill

[@chris76-01]

Imagine all the fails that weren't caught on camera 😂

[@guillermoelnino]

then they would be called crazy co nspi racy th eories.

[@wildbill6976]

might be a few more in the gulf of mexico in a day or two...

[@johnwalker1471]

How many non-failures are caught on camera?

[@chris76-01]

@@johnwalker1471 nobody cares about seeing things go properly. Lol.

[@guillermoelnino]

@@johnwalker1471 How many non-questions do you ask a day?

[@tommylord]

No. 2 ....So they only got seven years of service for their $2.8 million turbine. Curious to know whether it produced $400,000 worth of electricity per year to break even. The ones on the wind farms are bigger and much more expensive, and they are replacing them after 20 years or less. How is that supposed to be SUSTAINABLE?

[@twc9000]

When they say "sustainable," they mean sustainable income for certain companies and politicians.

[@Matthew-ix1mq]

Because they produce sufficient energy to replace themselves

[@Happybidr]

Another of the great myths from the environmental movement. From one green journal, “although conservation projects often fail, those failures are seldom covered in the literature. Out of more than 4,000 studies examined about the success or failure of conservation projects, only 59 - less than 1.5 percent - contained any amount of detail about why a project failed."

[@marcushull12]

the whole green agenda is a con .

[@rayking3466]

@@Matthew-ix1mq How? Not without govt. subsidies. Each one of those would have to produce enough electricity to power a medium sized town every year to break even. If they were that efficient, why do we need so many of them? One of those "farms" in each state should be enough to power that state...as long as the wind blows the correct amount, and it doesn't get too cold for the fins to operate without snapping. such an inefficient way to generate electricity.

[@Ernst12]

The trouble is that the entire wind turbine industry is unprofitable, the companies are being propped-up with middle-class CO2 taxes and with this 'cheap' and 'easily' acquired money provided without question, the safety rules are fairly sloppy especially with the train collision.

[@don-cw1yz]

In other words, the wind turbines run on subsidies and not wind.

[@Ernst12]

@@don-cw1yz Take away the subsidies and the entire scam will collapse instantly. This happened already with CST (Concentrated Solar Thermal) systems in Spain and California when the GFC struck and the investors just left the infrastructure to rot and walked away. So much of the choice between money and saving the earth from climate change right?

[@carlsanders7824]

These huge windmills are not recycled here in Texas. They are usually buried. In other places there are graveyards for them. They are not recyclable.

[@GhostK-cx9fq]

800 gal in gear,& another 1000,in transformer wow

[@jamesm6638]

What are they made of? you would think that metal could be reused...

[@kellypolfleit3942]

@@jamesm6638maybe it’s cheaper to buy one than it is to recycle them. I’m just speculating. It’s always about money

[@militant-otaku9795]

I lived on Fort Huachuca from 2013-2018. That wind turbine never ran while I was there. It never worked. Also, it was on the fort, but outside the cantonment area. Also, Fort Huachuca, unlike the rest of Southern Arizona doesn't get that hot due to the elevation. It seldomly hits 100°

[@Minimumpilot]

°F.😢

[@2ndfloorsongs]

Of course it didn't run, it didn't have enough blades.

[@dougtheslug6435]

Well then you got no worries getting cancer.

[@orvalaltwasser505]

Want to get your eyes opened with wind power. Go to Palm Springs. We’ve been there four times in the past. There’s a wind farm just outside of Palm Springs. Every time we go to see the turbines, there has never been more than 30-40 % of them operating. The rest are being repaired!

[@patriciahogan4705]

Millions wasted.

[@jimhallinsn1023]

I love seeing them self distruct.

[@Qaptyl]

Especially when it seems like the reason for their collapse . . . was that there was too much wind!

[@scottodonahoe9505]

They never tell you that it takes more money to make a windmill than the windmill will ever put out in it's life time of use .

[@AdrianMidgley]

Certainly honest people don't.

[@SmallWonda]

Yup - just follow the Money Trail and see who is getting rich from thios debacle, it sure as heck ain't us - yet our utility bills keep going tru' the roof.

[@fionajane56]

The blades cannot be recycled yet and are buried in landfills. The average lifespan of a turbine is 12 years

[@DarityChuey]

Yes! With blades being replaced between 3-7 years after initial installation.

[@PhilOsGarage]

Neither of those are true.

[@chipsawdust5816]

@@PhilOsGarage Then tell us the truth, Phil.

[@hobamasucs]

Wonder just how many AREN'T caught on Camera ?

[@perguto]

Really makes you think why you've never seen such an accident on TV...

[@rocketamadeus3730]

I just searched "turbine failure news" and there's plenty of TV coverage.

[@Look_What_I_Did]

Television loves to post failures. I bet you are on at least one failure piece yourself.

[@dougtheslug6435]

Lol....ya ok, they've all been on TV.

[@jamesbarbour8400]

Because to show such a thing to the masses would put a blight on the message the powers that be want to brainwash the masses with ! Can't have anyone knowing the truth about these things, can we - that just wouldn't do !

[@JourneyBarnes-r4z]

Imagine all the fails that weren't caught on camera . I had never realized how gigantic these things are ! SCARY !.

[@halffast7799]

Very noisy eyesores. I live a mile from a wind farm. Lots of birds die every day.

[@AlexClo-x7k]

They are montrously large and extremely noisy and terrible for the birds and environment at both ends of the production line. Rape of the earth and ridicjliusly expensive. They coukd build 2 nuclear power plants for the price of one medium sized windfarm.

[@Mozart1220]

@@halffast7799 OH stop already. No one buys that bullshit.

[@the_grand_inquisitor2511]

@@Mozart1220how tf you gon tell him what goes on where HE LIVES AT? I swear these comments make my FUCCIN blood boil sometimes

[@msmeyersmd8]

This is the visual representation of HUBRIS.

[@bosspickleschannel9102]

My 1st like is for the narrator.....2nds for the epic content 🎉❤

[@KumaBean]

I love watching those things fail, they’re monstrosities, and not all that green.

[@tufalike1796]

correct!

[@50gary]

I hate that word "Green" meant to mean something good that really isn't, phoney as a three dollar bill. I see garbage trucks rolling down the freeway burning diesel fuel but they are labeled with "green" for a better future, what a pant load.

[@crosisofborg5524]

I don’t think controlled demolition should be in a list of failures.

[@fukhue8226]

There are a lot more Nuclear Meltdowns in the world than the 3 you know about.

[@daxtontheweird]

@@fukhue8226tf this got to do with wind turbines

[@evil17]

It was fun to see though.

[@Heroesbleed]

Quick question…how many natural gas-powered electrical plants self-destruct in high winds?

[@joejones4172]

Um I give up. How many/

[@Heroesbleed]

@@joejones4172 None

[@magicfibre]

Quick question... How much pollution do gas-powered electrical plants they emit yearly, compared to the pollution caused by wind tubine failures? 10,000:1? 1,000,000:1?

[@Heroesbleed]

@@magicfibre Better question where’s any evidence that man-made climate change is a real dynamic?

[@Heroesbleed]

@@joejones4172 None

[@olli1068]

Always funny to see how something going exactly as planned is still called a failure.

[@plantfeeder6677]

When the plan is a failure, the shoe fits.

[@plantfeeder6677]

And the 31 people who voted your suicide pact up. Good luck if olie is right. You'll need it.

[@ferrumignis]

If you plan to fail and you do fail, then it's a success.

[@olli1068]

@@ferrumignis... and not everything that falls fails.

[@ferrumignis]

@@olli1068 Not everything that doesn't fall is a success.

[@sjwhitney]

For the record, the fiberglass parts cannot be recycled! they are filling landfills at an alarming rate. Those blades are IMMENSE!!!!

[@leonardcollings7389]

Carbon fiber parts.

[@LonglingEriksen]

recycled just like boats now. oil cant be

[@chipsawdust5816]

@@LonglingEriksen Not a lot of carbon fiber boats around. Which of course is a petroleum product.

[@LonglingEriksen]

@@chipsawdust5816 maybe only in Norway then. We should ban all oil, much easier. Polutes like you said

[@guillermoelnino]

@@LonglingEriksen I would love to see the look on y ou r face when y ou realize everything y ou take for granted exists because of oil.

[@manu3281]

You cannot recycle fibre glass which they make the blades out of that end up in landfills! 🤨

[@tufalike1796]

exactly, it's all a huge scam. Not to mention the pollution it makes to build them!

[@justthinkaboutit7983]

Tell me, how much energy does it take to manufacture a working turbine? And how many years does a turbine need to run for to recoup the energy it took to make it and erect it?

[@EnniodBleu]

The term is called EROI, "energy returned on investment", and the figure for wind turbines is ~25x energy returned over energy invested. Given a turbine should last 20 years or so, it makes back its "energy invested" in under a year. So they make sense to build in areas where that holds true. (ie windy places)

[@peterbaruxis2511]

"Next quesrion, please."

[@justthinkaboutit7983]

@@peterbaruxis2511 how many dwarfs does it take to change a light glove?

[@jocarr1791]

Whether we like it or not, "Clean energy" has an impact on our lives.

[@cherokeedonna83]

I had never realized how gigantic these things are ! SCARY !

[@DarityChuey]

The Vestas V150 has been in use since 2019. It has a rotor diameter of 492 feet (150 meters) and a tower (hub) height of 344.5’ - 544.6 feet (105-166 meters) depending on location of turbines determines which height is more appropriate. So your ground to tip height can range from 585’ to 785’ tall. The tip of the blade travels at an average speed of 65.62 feet per second. In some areas they can be placed within 1000 feet of a neighboring home, not their property line. They are not quiet like a dishwasher. And the pressure from a turbine actually causes the lungs of bats to explode. A wind generator has a generous maximum efficiency of rated capacity at 42% (generates less than 42% of the time).

[@Stoater1]

It's high time these ridiculous wind turbines were scrapped completely. They are useless.

[@PoojaPandey-eq4ol]

They are my worst nightmare!! I see a turbine on the highway and I take a U-turn, I dont care if anyone says im a scaredy cat but these are warnings of how dangerous these terrifying,haunting gigantic things are! But I also know that we need turbines all over the world to produce energy! So lets not judge these things too.

[@gdavis8588]

In the next year or two I’ll be surrounded by the monstrosities. I despise wind turbines and my former neighbors/friends who signed up for them. I love the videos where the turbines fall over.

[@calvinhenderson4200]

I have to laugh at the term clean energy. Sorta like the environmentally friendly lithium mines for EV's.

[@SmallWonda]

Epitome of an oxymoron!

[@ReadyPlayerOn3]

Not to mention, wind turbine parts are buried in the ground like solar panels when they're no longer of use.

[@johnsmith-er2kg]

Who would have ever thought each wild mill turbine would have 800 gallons of oil in them. Wow now we know were all the extra oil went to.

[@Mozart1220]

Stop already.

[@fredcloud9668]

"OH MY GOD,OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD". Very intelligent.

[@ElenarMT]

The best comment. That guy has the vocabulary of "like whatever".

[@hughaskew6550]

I'm missing something, I guess. How were the planned demolitions in several of these examples "failures"?

[@DarityChuey]

My guess is that they were included in the failures because they didn’t last the full 20 years that they are alleged to last.

[@ethanlamoureux5306]

They are failures because most power plants last 50 years or more, but these are lucky to last 20 and then they're totally garbage, worth nothing except for scrap. And even then they produce so little useful energy in their short lifespan, one must wonder why bother. What a waste of money and resources! Nothing "green" about it, it's a big scam.

[@MorganOtt-ne1qj]

I agree. Planned demo isn't failure. Except for life expectancy.

[@coloradomountainman8659]

This A-hole poster is famous for using "click bait".

[@ferrumignis]

@@DarityChuey Exactly right. Unless these have reached their 20/25 year life expectancy then it's a premature failure.

[@cmwHisArtist]

Wait….he said the reason there was such a fire was that there was 800 GALLONS OF OIL IN THE GEARBOX!

[@QuantumRift]

Ah, I never expected to see the Ft. Huachuca turbine. I worked on Ft. Huachuca and lived in Sierra Vista nearly 25 years. I drove and rode my bike past this turbine daily after it was constructed....we moved from there about a year or so after it was constructed.....we lived literally right down the road from there.

[@coloradomountainman8659]

So?

[@plantfeeder6677]

Ride over and pull them down. Don Quantumiote.

[@Smedley1947]

Someone else on here who was stationed there said it never once ran. Is that true?

[@douglasgriswold2533]

@@coloradomountainman8659 So what is YOUR point, Einstein? I have a connection with it, you apparently don't.

[@richardc7721]

​@@Smedley1947in the time I was there I was told it never produced electric power.

[@NoLeakz]

So do the entire math Cost to develop Cost to produce Cost to install Cost to maintain Cost to maintain Cost to maintain Cost to maintain Cost to demolish Cost to remove Cost to coverup Yeah TOTALLY EFFICIENT!!!

[@effedrien]

Haha if you would have done the math, you would have noticed the cost of ownership of these things is very low. Preventive maintenance is very limited, they are remotely monitored and shutdown in case of issues, and repair is never urgent. Truth is the operational cost neglectable, it's easy money for the power companies.

[@effedrien]

And the installation cost is also peanuts. Just a concrete slab, ordering the parts, and 1 day after delivery the thing is assembled. At least that's how it's done in Europe, maybe the technology is still a bit behind where you live.

[@fhuber7507]

12:38 No, the blades can't be recycled. They are composite carbon and fiberglass over balsa or foam core. the blades are chopped to somewhat manageable sections and hauled off to be buried in the desert. The carbon fiber and fiberglass are petrochemical products. Thousands of gallons of petrochemical products per blade.

[@chipsawdust5816]

But but but ... GREEN! In someone's government-subsidized dreams anyway. Solindra anyone? Same concept.

[@AlexClo-x7k]

Renewable Energy is non-renewable, go figure. Rape if the earth create all these pseudo renewables. Rich people getting richer.

[@Mozart1220]

Yes, they can. You need to catch up.

[@ouroboris]

Good episode overall, but planned demolition isn't a failure.

[@jerkyturkey007]

Maybe the amount of time it was in useful service and the amount of money never payed back for the investment would be considered a failure??? Generating electricity for consumers is a real business.

[@CoolClearWaterNM]

I would prefer that old turbines come down to make way for something functional as an energy source, rather than another pointless pat yourself on the back for saving the planet icon.

[@ursulasmith6402]

All this nonsense comes from the Green party from Germany and the European union.

[@MoParRus340]

And just where do you suppose that over a thousand gal per tower went when that thing hit the ground??

[@MorganOtt-ne1qj]

Bloop bloop bloop. Into the ground. Keeps the weeds down that way.

[@KenKay55]

Same place all the millions of gallons spewed out into the ocean when the BP Deepwater Horizon exploded.

[@peterbaruxis2511]

I think turbines are evil but they probably drained the oil before they dropped the tower.

[@David-d4k9k]

This was a most uplifting video.

[@thomastinglan2378]

I have a "wind farm " I have one 1/4 mile east of me. Noise pollution, and flicker is bothersome.

[@reinventingthemonkey]

The blades go to a landfill because they can't be recycled.

[@robertpowell7672]

Saw a vid where they are ground up and used for fuel in a cement factory.

[@UrRonaldo_siuuuuu]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oX21op6Zn6pppJosi=kXI_-b7leqvB2Am5 the destroyed wind turbine

[@UrRonaldo_siuuuuu]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oX21op6Zn6pppJosi=kXI_-b7leqvB2Am5 the destroyed wind turbine

[@rodrigohag]

Here in Brazil, the propellers of wind turbines are able to rotate on their own axis, so in storms they assume a null position and thus the turbine stops rotating to avoid accidents.

[@lynncarden]

Hahaha....wouldn't it been better not mowing down all the trees . .you know what mother nature put on the planet to make what we breathe...you know AIR???

[@hegeliandetective1034]

Tell that to Bill Gates, he and others want to cut and bury 70 million trees@@lynncarden

[@lostsoul1813]

I would expect it would be a common sense technical desicion...

[@makattak3550]

​@@lostsoul1813decision makes more sense.

[@richardc7721]

They all have shaft brake systems and the newer ones the blades can be turned just like airplane props which is called "feathering" the prop, however they can and do fail resulting in the loss of the tower.

[@timholstpetersen79]

I'm impressed by your pronunciation of "Aarhus" Denmark... wow, spot on ! Fun fact: Denmark houses the largest wind turbine producer in the world, Vestas.

[@tuvelat7302]

He got Fort Huachuca right, too.

[@bobhopless]

Its not a real person. Its an AI voice and script. ​ @Tuvela T

[@timholstpetersen79]

@@bobhopless No. YOU are an AI.

[@davidlawrence8803]

The train driver must have felt satisfied for his good deed for the day.

[@jerkyturkey007]

The law says there are only two ways a train can be at fault for an accident. 1. If the crossing signals malfunctioned. 2. If the train left the track.

[@_ksm0922]

I have an irrational fear of these damn things. So what do I do? Reinforce that fear with videos like these, of course!

[@trkstatrksta8410]

Your fear is not irrational. It's real and we should all be scared

[@Chris_at_Home]

The only way most of these wind farms survive is though government subsidies. Think of it as paying for your electricity twice, once in taxes and then to the utility.

[@mikehoncho9344]

So...2100 gallons of oil for each turbine? I thought it was green energy

[@notthisguy8817]

Imagine the batteries that will be needed to store energy when its either too windy or not windy enough. No one has thought this through I think. Gotta store the energy somehow..

[@roboticcake6047]

They have those batteries. Same ones they use to store energy at other types of power plants

[@Tom-dt4ic]

Congratulation, you are the first person to ever realize that this is an issue!!! If scientists and engineers were really smart they would have been working on this problem for years!!! From now on I don't think the science world, or even the world beyond that, like no human being ever, should make a single move without consulting your giant intellect.

[@keithhandley8515]

And diesel generators attached to them each one has a generator

[@keithhandley8515]

They don't store energy either

[@roboticcake6047]

@@keithhandley8515 yes they do, not in the windmill but in big battery’s away from it. They do that for coal and gas too.

[@glennjames7107]

All of those black, smokey fires look great for the environment !

[@David-d4k9k]

This is an immensely satisfying video.

[@Therealbp2010]

As many times as the word recycle was used it should be noted the fiberglass blades can't be recycled, those are buried in the desert....

[@willc854]

And THAT, one of two massive problems: unrecyclable buried in the desert, and the nastiness of the manufacturing process from beginning to ‘end’….why is there no penalty in America for the uselessness of the leftovers. Let’s see them buried in the front part of the estates of the people getting rich from this process. This IS NOT AND WILL NEVER BE CLEAN ENERGY. And that’s not even speaking to the batteries….

[@tufalike1796]

@@willc854 THANK YOU! finally a human that sees the LIE called wind turbines. it's a huge SCAM and an ugly one at best destroying the views of the land they are set on.

[@AdrianMidgley]

@@willc854 They do make good fences/walls, although not in the front of anyone's estate, I think, so far. And have been used for roofs and bridges.

[@kingdommanlegacyministries7769]

Here we are, 2023, & we , as it is clearly apparent, are dumber than ever.

[@KingmanRoss]

All I ever saw was higher power bills,even with solar.Worst part is they are nothing but an eyesoar.

[@edgraves7098]

The title says "Failures" however at least 3 of the 10 were deliberately taken down so I'd hardly call them failures.

[@TheKingSource]

Its worth noting its known fact wind turbines cost more then 100 times the money they will make through wind generated. A failed concept.

[@demijones7873]

In the clip beginning at around the 9:57 mark, did anyone else notice the black object falling out the clouds to the left of that lightning strike? There are actually THREE black objects that I could see falling, and in different places. That was so bizarre!

[@SteveWillNotDoIt1984]

Wtf?!!! Something definitely Falls but off of what, the sky?

[@demijones7873]

@@SteveWillNotDoIt1984 right?! I had to rewatch it a bunch of times to make sure I wasn't just seeing things.

[@SteveWillNotDoIt1984]

@@demijones7873 only thing logical that I can think of is maybe some particles or something hanging over the camera comma close to the camera comma fall down during the video? A few pieces of dust falling right in front of the lens could, I guess, look like something falling out of the sky from far away. I don't know

[@AtomicExtremophile]

The oil that these things use for lubrication has to be replaced once a year - and is made from crude!

[@brianredmond4919]

So how much energy would that oil have produced ? = about 1 days output from the turbine.

[@danquigg8311]

How in the world can a controlled demolition be possibly considered any sort of a 'failure???"

[@chonpincher]

Some controlled demolitions fail by bringing the structure down incompletely or in the wrong place. However, that was not the case for the three demolitions shown in the video. Perhaps the compiler couldn't find enough clips of failures and so padded the video out with demolitions. The dropping of the offshore rotor wasn't a turbine failure, either: it was a failure of the crane on the maintenance vessel. That leaves only six turbine failures.

[@ohioplayer-bl9em]

2.7 million dollar windmill that supplied 300 homes for 7 years. That’s 107$ per month for each home. I highly doubt that it consistently provided enough juice for 300 homes and would probably cut that number in half which doubles its cost per home to over 200$ a month. Doesn’t sound like it makes much sense financially. But that’s the whole idea… green equals big green dollars

[@spacecoastz4026]

Clean energy.....one heck of a carbon footprint.

[@CJWJR]

2:30 I guess that created a power surge??😅

[@Ivebeenhad]

I remember in the 80s or 90s there was a piece of video that showed large birds getting whacked by each blade of one. Between Carmel and Interstate 5 along Hwy 41 and 46.

[@UrRonaldo_siuuuuu]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oX21op6Zn6pppJosi=kXI_-b7leqvB2Am5 the destroyed wind turbine

[@PaddleDogC5]

done 180 but 250 is an whole other world. great work.

[@johnscreekmark]

There’s no such thing as clean energy.

[@patmcbride9853]

We need a compilation of windmills killing protected birds. And some of the drivers in Italy DID drive under the blades.

[@redspock]

what about cars, killing birds, raccoons, deer, squirrels etc? I bet if you do the numbers, cars kill more.

[@patmcbride9853]

@@redspock Flying cars would be dangerous to BIRDS. It's a non sequitur to bring in 4 legged creatures.

[@redspock]

@@patmcbride9853 I see hawks, killed all the time by cars. There’s no difference in comparing the two

[@patmcbride9853]

@@redspock Yeah, there is. But you can't take the "L".

[@richardbossman9875]

I shudder to think how much that turbine blade that got destroyed by the train cost the truck driver or his company, not to mention the hospital bill for the train workers

[@philsalvatore3902]

The driver pulling the turbine blade across the choo-choo tracks wasn't impatient. He badly misjudged the turn and couldn't complete it without taking one of the gates and signal lights down.

[@teresaz1692]

Jaka piękna katastrofa!!! To samo dzieje się z samochodami elektrycznymi, hulajnogami, itd, wynalazki "ekologiczne", które dobijają środowisko!!!😢

[@twirlgirl2286]

That last one, #1, I swear that turbine falls down _exactly_ like one of those *crazy, incredible, wild & waving, flailing & inflatable tube guys* you see at car lots, grand openings, and go-kart tracks. It was pretty comical. 😁😄😆😄😆😄😆

[@robanderson473]

🤣Yeah, like in Family Guy! The whacky wavey flailing...oh I can't think of the damn thing the 'ad' says, but you know the one! 😁

[@twirlgirl2286]

@@robanderson473 Yeah, I was trying to say the Family Guy one, but like you said, I couldn't remember the whole thing, bwahahahaha! 🤣😂🤣

[@twirlgirl2286]

@@robanderson473 The wild & whacky, wavy, flailing, incredible, inflatable tube guy? Could that be close? 😄😆🤣😆😄😂

[@robanderson473]

@@twirlgirl2286 Yep, that'll do! Cheers 🤣👍 Good stuff!

[@DrFiero]

Boy can I relate to 9&10! The 1KW turbine I *had* in my backyard (yeah, tiny in comparison to these) went buh-bye when the winds here got really crazy one night. Snapped one blade off, which resulted in a massive balance upset. It snapped the 2-1/2" steel pipe, throwing it all to the ground leaving nothing but the blade hub. Found a blade chunk about 60ft away. Luckily it missed hitting my shop as it came down, and it "aimed" for the open backyard.

[@paulbrouyere1735]

Home grown windturbine?

[@DrFiero]

@@paulbrouyere1735 - other than the tower, no. Was an IstaBreeze (not a super cheap Vevor etc!). I'm going to try making my own vertical blade unit from the remnants though. Not much to loose at this point.

[@paulbrouyere1735]

@@DrFiero great! I’m curious and also working on basic principles of a VAWT

[@larryt4884]

Good thing it did not make a hole in your roof.

[@DrFiero]

@@larryt4884 - tell me about it!! There was about 110* (of the 360) where it would have gone through 1 of 2 roofs/walls. and about the same where flying chunks would have hit the 'solar farm'. Got lucky I guess.

[@offgrid7837]

In 2023 everything is opposite to what we're told. Wind turbines are a perfect example, touted as clean energy but actually worse than a coal mine.

[@FC-zc6dt]

no.9 Campania is NOT one of the most industrialised regions in Italy! Wind turbines are placed in areas with free land and where wind blows quite constantly year round, this to maximise ROI. I'm Italian, and to be clear Campania like all Italy is a fantastic place to visit.

[@kultursender6507]

The nominal power of wind turbines is only theoretical. Their contribution to electricity production is typically much smaller - and purely random - depending on whether the wind is blowing, how hard it is blowing, or whether there is no wind.

[@aaa7189]

400 gallons of oil in the gear box and 1,300 in the ground level transformer, that sure will be good for the water / environment when they have problems. They are thinking of putting 50 wind turbines between Buffalo, NY and Cleveland, Ohio. These are not as green as they want you to think

[@MichaelBrown-me3bh]

I really look forward to these, I like how you let it play then verbally contextualise what we are watching, sometimes I find out I’m not very perceptive.. thanks for the video 👍.. I imagine a pile of dead birds underneath the wind turbines 💀

[@TheRealSwissball]

Same here. A perfect amount of talking in his videos. Enough information to let us know what's going on yet doesn't take away from the content he's showing us.

[@menavill1]

¿Por que hablan tantas pavadas? No saben que un simple alambrado mata perdices ,o un vehículo en ruta ,mata 1 pájaro/año por auto, esas palas a esa velocidad ,no la chocan mas de 3 simples pájaros ,y al principio ,pues luego aprenden a esquivarlo

[@mikeklinger1712]

10:54 wow over 2000 gallons of oil in one of these! I thought this crap was supposed to pull us away from oil useage😂

[@baronbattles4681]

It’s hard to imagine a coal fired power plant of similar power output putting out as much pollution as the catastrophic failures of wind towers to say nothing about bird damage, isn’t it? Is this about politics and money?

[@aib0160]

"85% of the components can be recycled" Well given one of the main components is the turbine blades and these most certainly can't be recycled. These will be with us for generations to come and given the short life expectancy its clear to see that these will soon become a major issue for the environment and not the saviour of it.

[@mbob4337]

A damaged wind turbine is so deadly. Why isn't there a system to detect when a blade has been damaged/fallen off. To engage the breaks. It wasn't on fire. So it just kept spinning?

[@FortisRising]

Depending on the brand there are monitoring systems like that. Problem is, it comes down to what the customer wants to pay for. Most of them seem to be too excited about the tax credit they get to worry about those additional measures for protecting their investment…

[@katzicael]

different countries likely have *very* different safety standards.

[@JohnDoe-bd5sz]

Also, the brakes are not designed to stop a fully wind-loaded blade. The procedure is to rotate the blades so that the edge is facing into the wind, and then applying the brakes. In fact the blades are also adjusted under normal use, as the turbine should ideally spin at a constant rate and need a different pitch depending on how much wind there is.

[@ethanlamoureux5306]

Brakes only work when everything is functioning properly. There are a lot of things that can go wrong which can make it impossible to keep it under control.

[@guillermoelnino]

I don't recall a coal power plant sending shrapnel everywhere when something goes wrong.

[@wun1gee]

The smoke for #4 was "thick and black" because the blades are made largely of composite materials, epoxy, balsa wood and fiberglass. Those things do not burn cleanly. That smoke was putting some nasty chemicals in the air.

[@dennisdennis5921]

And what about the toxic dust or smoke when those turbines go?

[@10Haille]

That's when you yell incoming and Fire In the Hole RUN🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥😀😀😀😀😀😀

[@DH-sw6vg]

Nonsense! You can't recycle those composite turbine blades. They will take up space in landfills forever.

[@rogerdudra178]

Greetings from the BIG SKY. Got a bunch of these in Montana, never seen one fall down. They're really big.

[@rongenung]

Greetings from the Grand Canyon State.

[@maryfries2147]

There also not paying there way all nonsense by the globalist asshats

[@brianpinion5844]

size dont matter! lol

[@chipsawdust5816]

Montana native here - just because you've never seen one fail doesn't mean they don't. It's a HUGE, beautiful state :)

[@Gary55379]

If you’re gonna be hauling many blades across railroad tracks, especially turning across the tracks, shouldn’t the railroad be called so you can coordinate your crossing to avoid the times trains might be passing through? Just an idea…

[@wirelessone2986]

If you look again he hit the rail road safety light on the left way before the train hit

[@Gary55379]

@@wirelessone2986Doesn’t matter. Railroad should be made aware hundred foot long blades will be crossing the tracks.

[@wirelessone2986]

@@Gary55379 Thats like saying it didn't matter he hit a telephone pole...HE HIT the light and was bending it and damaged it without a train comming...its probably why he couldnt get out of the way in time

[@GeraldDove-i1z]

Good point, but now your asking for common sense, unfortunately that went with the dodo.

[@cabman86]

The way these things explode is horrific.

[@NihongoGuy]

I find it very entertaining, not horrific in the least. For "horrific" try taking a look at human history in so far as wartime behaviour: all races, all ethnic groups, all generations.

[@joeybonin7691]

I don't believe it's 85%. that is recyclable. The tower and blades are fiberglass. There's nothing you can do with them.

[@DerekWalsh-l4i]

The truck driver whose turbine blade was wrecked on the railroad tracks was neither "incredibly unlucky or impatient", he was stupid. With such an enormously long load he should have ensured that his exit was completely clear before ever attempting to cross those tracks, then crossing non-stop as quickly as possible.

[@20121961]

These monstrosities are an ugly blot on the landscape! If we must have them (I am unconvinced), at least put them well out to sea, out of sight. This video, of some coming down, brought me great joy!

[@doonhamer252]

Putting them in the sea been proven to negativly affect the fish stock habbit, it's happened in Scotlands Solway Firth never mind the migration of transiting waterbird and over in Denmark

[@20121961]

​@@doonhamer252, I didn't know that. Let's not have them at all then!

[@wallyman292]

5:00 - Wait just a minute here! Regardless of the train, there's no eff'in' way that truck is getting around that corner with that blade in tow! He took it as wide as possible, and still the blade was taking out the gate base, the railroad crossing warning light, etc! There is no way in hell other blade were towed around that corner successfully!

[@brianpinion5844]

no comment , last time I said something about a mans driving skills I did it over a CB , wasn't that great of a driver but I'm guessing he spent all his free time learning to fight cause when we pulled over he beat the hell out of me , coal truck drivers cant take a joke , but I took my whooping moved on.

[@davidgeorge8541]

The rear wheels can be steered. You can see that just before he was hit as the wheels were aligning the blade to cross successfully.

[@rhonda620]

​@brian pinion wow!! So sorry that happened to you!! So not cool!!

[@tuvelat7302]

He was following the lead vehicle who should have had a cleared route.

[@michaelripley4528]

@@brianpinion5844 AH huh?? 🫣!!!