5 Wind Turbines Which Failed (Environmentally Friendly?)

Nearly 120 wind turbines catch fire each year, according to a research - ten times the number reported by the industry. The researchers claim that out of 200,000 turbines around the world, 117 fires take place annually - far more than what is reported by wind farm companies.
Fire has a huge financial impact on the industry; Each windmill costs more than £2 million and generates an estimated income of more than £500,000 per year. Any loss or downtime of these valuable assets makes the industry less viable and productive.
Fires are a problem for the industry, impacting on energy production, economic output and emitting toxic fumes, this could cast a shadow over the industry’s green credentials. Wind turbines catch fire because highly flammable materials such as hydraulic oil and plastics are in close proximity to machinery and electrical wires. These can ignite a fire if they overheat or are faulty. Lots of oxygen, in the form of high winds, can quickly fan a fire inside a turbine.
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[@nopenope5203]

"are they environmentally friendly"? Really? Just because of a few high profile accidents this video questions the environmental safety of harvesting the energy of the wind?

[@paugasolina5048]

i am friendly to u mom

[@xjunkxyrdxdog89]

_If they suck up all the wind we'll all run out of fresh air._

[@reahs4815]

Hmmmmmmmmmm Kinda sounds like the argument vs nuclear power

[@nopenope5203]

@@reahs4815 it may sound similar but they are on completely different scales. A windmill as far as I know is always built in an isolated area to have most efficient access to wind power and only requires occasional maintenance so it is normally unmanned. If it started collapsing or exploding, it is extremely unlikely to affect anyone other then normal inconveniences such an accident would entail. Having a catastrophic failure at a nuclear power plant would be exponentially more dangerous in comparison. The dedicated workforce normally in attendence at the factory would obviously be put at risk, but nearby buildings and facilities along with their occupants would be in just as much danger since the potential hazards are devastating. Comparing the failure of a windmill to a nuclear power plant is like comparing a small car accident to a large passenger train derailment. One is simple and unlikely to hurt more then the people involved. The other could easily seriously maim or kill everyone in the immediate vicinity.

[@reahs4815]

@@nopenope5203 But the problem is that people still think nuclear power plants are built exactly like those 50 years ago which is not the case. If a modern nuclear plant would fail the worst thing that could happen would be that they had to restart the reactor. That's why we should encourage usage of nuclear so we can make nuclear better, more efficient and cheaper to build and maintain but also most importantly rebuild/demolish/upgrade old reactors that do not fulfill modern safety standards. I'm not saying that we should stop using wind or solar but we should not get rid of nuclear power or have less of it because the masses of misinformed people think they are nukes in fancy houses. If we get rid of nuclear what will replace it? Wind? solar? HA! they will never be able to reliably replace nuclear as long as we don't have a safe, economically viable, efficient and good way to store excess power during low demand and use the stored energy during high demand

[@cerealru1069]

the first one was a demolition.

[@WJRHalyn-jw2ho]

Yup. Everyone seemed pretty chill about it, even mimicking the honking warning horn. FACE PLANT!

[@icefozzy8461]

U meaned second

[@WJRHalyn-jw2ho]

Well, the one labelled #5, anyway. Seems they had a short clip showing it working, then Boom! Down it comes. (I'm not including the damage being done in the title clip prior to that... #5 was the first of the series of 5 reviews.)

[@S730SD]

It's unfortunate they haven't all been demolished yet. :)

[@Enzi_Meteori_902]

It definitely looked like a freakin simulated demolition! How can one lightning strike kill a windmill? I mean, it can but it can't make it fall over, so I take it as a yes that it was a simulated demolition

[@TheA10Phonex]

Anything mechanical is prone to failure... except for 1996 Toyota Camrys.

[@Manice08]

my 99 frame rusted in half before i had any major failures internal failures lol

[@Justinvanjamz]

@@Manice08 i totalled mine....but it still ran good lol

[@Justinvanjamz]

yes!! you cant kill the 90s model camrys

[@gaylordsteambag_389]

Or 3310 nokias

[@militiachusetts5534]

300k miles...only thing I ever had to fix was the snapped axle I did in a snow bank and my alternator.

[@blessed465]

Camera man: records *something happens* *Immediately points camera at the ground* 👌🏿

[@Tradcast]

2:16 someone installed wind turbines on Windows xp. It failed miserably

[@PenisMcWhirtar]

NO you IDIOT! It was t'other way round - stuxnet did the rest!!!!

[@tacticalfacepalm5403]

Tradcast Someone installed an Apple Mac OS into that turbine.

[@lythsian]

don't you mean it crashed?

[@theRPGmaster]

Blue screened

[@zacharycauchi7253]

Windows XP is not enough, it needs Protegent.

[@mottthehoople693]

mechanical things fail all the time...shit happens..

[@MattQrillz]

(Psst, common sense isn't very common anymore. Please be mindful of flat earth retards)

[@randhirkumar3721]

Mott theHoople cat

[@TheValentineEnemy]

Exactly. We cannot create perfect things after all...

[@keyeramcewen8659]

Forest gump reference

[@wkdravenna]

forrest who's named after Nathaniel Bedford Forrest ? Literally the founder of the KKK. Come on don't bring that democrat stuff around here.

[@papapalpatine8513]

1:37 how to power the whole city with one turbine

[@duckyplayz5134]

1:53 or no

[@whoops_]

he gone hyper drive too far

[@anonymousrs3996]

For like 10 minutes nice

[@spiyder]

died trying

[@techgadgets3714]

FBI OPEN UP

[@damnallseperatist]

"(Enviromental friendly?)" What are you exactly critical of here? How do you think this compare to... when a oil field catches on fire? or a when a tanker sinks and leaks billions of gallons of crude into open sea? oh my boy

[@RonP51]

These things are being put in the path of bird migration patterns they do not produce enough electricity to run big cities

[@damnallseperatist]

​@@RonP51 no they are not. and even if they do kill a dozen birds a year, coal plants however, kill millions (of human beings, not to mention wildlife) every year via air pollution. the trade off is crystal clear.

[@Penguin_of_Death]

Can you please enlighten us when ANY TANKER EVER leaked 'billions of gallons of crude' into the sea then Oh...I though not. Stop exaggerating to make your point

[@TheXanderGrim]

@Exinety Icxee Actually you are , there is no taker that carries over 312,000MT

[@TheXanderGrim]

@Exinety Icxee Why respond then ....... Why the need for profanity , does one not have an verbose vocabulary from which to draw ?

[@darkspyro8978]

The First one wasn't a failure it was a contorlled destruction!

[@everettrailfan]

I know right! That first one was obviously not a failure! It was _entirely_ a controlled demolition!

[@rnqtn]

Yeah, it was not a failure. It was a completely controlled dismantling!

[@streax8967]

Indeed! It clearly wasn’t a failure. But rather a controlled wrecking.

[@015AEX]

Here I will explain all of them 5 you said that one 4 dumbass bird not being smart at all I’m pretty sure if my dog knows not to to jump into the pool in my backyard the bird should know not to go there 3 again old and it was probably rusty 2 Mother Nature 1 show me the full clip please

[@MegaJimbob125]

Absolutely the first one was without a doubt a controlled destruction

[@mayhemmike1789]

lack of proper maintenance is normally the cause of failure

[@TIMEtoRIDE900]

Lack of failure (reliability) is normally caused by proper maintenance.

[@waska61]

Michael Gillette

[@gabrielgarza3707]

Michael Gillette. people don't take care there stuff

[@MikeBarbarossa]

Looks like those last 2 had failed brakes. You have to be able to lock those down in too high winds

[@dansmolen1618]

Michael Gillette no truer words ever spoken! keeps farm silo crews employed to this day!

[@markfethke6150]

Anyone ever hit a bird with their car? If so you better park it.

[@madsvigan2898]

I only clicked here because of " Enviromental friendly?" sounds like making the argument that nuclear power isnt as good as coal, becuase theres been 3 large meltdown since we build nuclear reactors

[@rolfpoelman3486]

*because

[@melter3098]

@@rolfpoelman3486 grammar Nazi

[@Anglo-Saxon9]

These are wind turbines, not windmills.

[@47485ksc]

It's "Pat & Terry's". I've been there. Good looking chicks, too. They just don't "polish knobs".

[@Anglo-Saxon9]

The fuck?

[@47485ksc]

See, "Pat" and "Terry" can be either a man or woman's name. Never seen the comedy: "It's Pat!" movie I take it..? You should have known.

[@blogengeezer4507]

As you mentioned, hand built 'Wind' Powered 'Mills' were actually cost effective and labor saving, grinding far more grain than possible by human hands. Wind electric energy generating Turbines should be so lucky. Without the original Wind powered 'Lift' devices to pump out the polders before electrical turbine pumps, Holland would still be under water along it's coastal areas.

[@47485ksc]

Without those pumps, water pipes would be big sellers, eh?

[@Earthneedsado-over177]

Ever see an oil well fire? These are sparklers by comparison.

[@rickyspanish7851]

yeah, these are better for the enviroment. things malfunction once in a while

[@marshthefox6668]

I was about to say, at least these don't spill toxic fumes and radiation.

[@falseprogress]

Wind turbines are polluting a lot more scenery than the fossil fuel business now, and are a menace to anything that flies, especially bats. I'm not a fracking apologist but that infrastructure is much smaller and sites can at least be restored when the oil or gas plays out. Wind turbines are meant to loom over landscapes indefinitely, including red-lit night skies, and it's no simple matter to take them down once they're up. cutt.us/blight_for_naught

[@wako1576]

Respect Silence when you said polluting, I assumed you were talking about poisoning the natural world in some way, but that link is just about how wind turbines look ugly. Do they actually have a significant negative environmental impact, or is this really just about them feeling intrusive in landscapes?

[@georgedang449]

A sleek white windmill looks a lot better than a black oil well tower that spews orange flame and dark plume once in a while when overflow valve opens.

[@murrayelliott6828]

Top flight German turbine maker, Siemens booked a €223 million write down (ie loss) in 2014 due to the fact it had to replace bearings in a fleet of turbines that were less than 2 years old.

[@lean737]

Friday:arrives Me: 0:28

[@strategosgaming8230]

Oh look, I can almost see the oil spill that these windmills didn't create.

[@DanYHKim2]

You can see all of the people being evacuated from the nearby community, right? yeah, no.

[@realtree7342]

They contain hundreds of gallons of motor what do you think is burning

[@DanYHKim2]

Wow. 'Hundreds' of gallons? Off of China, there is a single tanker that had a collision and fire. According to the BBC, it was "carrying 136,000 tonnes of ultra-light crude oil from Iran which generates a toxic underwater slick that would be invisible from the surface." There is no comparison. Hundreds of gallons of oil or other fuel may be what a container ship (not a tanker, which holds much more) leaks inadvertently in the course of a week of operation. In 2012, a small cargo ship was described to have a 'minor' leak of 1500 gallons. A single oil tank car, the kind that have been derailing and exploding in past years, can hold over 34,000 gallons.

[@realtree7342]

Fuskisima still has stopped pouring radio active water in to the pacific i take a bath in petrol over cesium anyday

[@samkoch2857]

Strategos Gaming actually the windmills by my house are leaking oil onto the fields

[@johnthaller9501]

The Centralia Pa. coal mine fire has been burning since 1962, with no way to put it out. It may burn for hundreds of years. I'll take a few minor wind turbine fires instead.

[@Bluehealer100]

This is the original setting for the movie Silent Hill, Centrailia Penn.

[@ericzuller5348]

It's been continually burning for nearly 60 years... Where do you figure 3-5 years it will be out? There is a coal seam fire in Australia that has been burning for an estimated 6000 years. The Centralia fire will continue to burn for a long, long time.

[@johnthaller9501]

Why would it run out of air? I has been burning for years with enough air to keep it going for 60 years.

[@WimsicleStranger]

John Thaller there’s more than 60 years worth of oxygen on this planet...

[@jamebrooke894]

John Thaller Like that response! But as I was told by a nice liberal lady with a very foul mouth"facts are racist".

[@ericcaves7530]

I can't imagine how much power #4 was producing before it broke

[@krpmills2736]

On the one had, 200'000 bird deaths a year caused by wind turbines.. On the other hand, an increase of 5 degrees centigrade by 2100 of which the last example of rapid temperature rise like that would be the End Permian event which is better known as 'the great dying' in which 96% of all life died.

[@ronaldstaples5752]

KRP Mills I have wind turbans on three sides of me. Still looking for a dead bird

[@benjaminmccarter4318]

There is an estimated 1.3-4 billion birds killed a year by cats. Are cats bad for the environment? Shall we order the extermination’s of fluffies everywhere? I heard there are no cats in America. Catchy little jingle.

[@krpmills2736]

@@benjaminmccarter4318 Did you even read what I said? I'm pointing at the fact human climate change will be the death of a lot more than 200'000 birds. Wind power is not a perfect system to use but it is so many magnitudes greater than causing higher global temperatures from burning fossil fuels or nuclear waste.

[@aurctic6046]

1:36, I don't think wind turbines are meant to turn into sonic.

[@maalsy]

Aurctic it went crazy bc the brakes weren't working right. I know that bc I build wind farms and wind turbines

[@neurofiedyamato8763]

The brakes most likely failed

[@danielstark8258]

carter masters if you worked at a wind farm you’d know that the blades also turn to prevent that from happening... it probably got hit by lightning and shorted a fuse causing the safety features to shut down

[@mrono1910]

Yea the gear reduction system probably ran out of oil or something and failed to turn the speed down

[@clankplusm]

daniel PC/ Xbox its called feathering, propeller planes do it too

[@blazedr13]

We should quit planting trees because they might catch on fire someday.

[@heinz490]

or fall down in a storm and kill a person

[@jaganbharadwaj1143]

And you will inhale only co2 n live rest of your life😂

[@jaganbharadwaj1143]

@I Am Sekouu surely will 😀😀

[@farhan6057]

Dumbest comment ever lmao!

[@quarans08]

Munji nescafe r/whoooosh

[@achterhoeker72]

Modern wind turbines switch off during storms and have an integrated fire extinguishing system. In any case, a burning wind turbine is less of a problem than when a nuclear power plant explodes.

[@LMProjectsZ28]

They dont explode, that's only steam that causes an explosion, fusion reactors are safe entirely

[@Enzi_Meteori_902]

They simulated the wind turbine to fall down on the 5th one, the storm didn't do anything to it except for making it wet and soggy

[@ronaldstaples5752]

XxQw34TyM069xX Plutonium escapes with that steam

[@jamest3552]

​@@ronaldstaples5752 That was debunked too.

[@marshmower]

No power at all kills people. Face facts

[@zeframrinehart]

Love how the first clip was a turbine functioning exactly as intended and redirecting lightning through the lightning rods built into the blades. yet it's on a list of "failures". Do your research, the entire thing is rigged with built in, engineered lightning rods and is all grounded. And the second clip is unfortunate but does not happen very often. I work oil field and am around those turbines often and not once have I seen any dead birds killed by them. I know its true predators could have gotten to the birds after hitting the ground.

[@paullee7467]

Jacob Blain bird kept flying around it too, birds fault, looked like he was committing suicide.

[@splunkr24]

@@paullee7467 Yes, it is the bird's fault. Because it fully understands all the engineering, math, and angular velocities involved in a wind turbine.

[@Salguine]

This ad brought to you by the oil and coal industry.

[@scottday1988]

Salguine the true power you can make oil disappear. Stop wearing shoes buying tires boats wiring

[@micha8469]

Exactly my thoughts xD Like windmills should be 100% reliable while everything in the industry fails sometimes, even things built using way older and well-rounded technologies... When it comes to windmills, they don't really have anything toxic inside to harm the environment. Just some garbage to collect, bring new parts and you're good to go. Things break, nothing new. In comparison to the amount of them all over the world, I'm sure we can call windmills pretty reliable. Prepaid propaganda video, nothing else.

[@Salguine]

You wanna go sober up and try that sentence again?

[@nunyab8972]

No. This ad brought to you by an internet troll, and you took the bait.

[@ApolloTheDerg]

Hydro Solar Nuclear*

[@anonymousanonymous9991]

You all actually questioning whether this is more environmentally friendly than fossil fuels? Taking this so seriously is messin wit ma vibe I'm just tryna watch windmills tear itself apart 🤣🤣🤣

[@anonymousanonymous9991]

@Sharkzer My grammar is bad intentionally; it's fun and funny. Yours? I cant imagine someone uses intentionally bad grammar to correct another's grammar. "Write english" ? English is an idea, one being self referential. You dont write English: you write in English. Can I not just make a comment for fun while I'm high?

[@bobbobbly3753]

😂 Yuh get nerded @skarkzer

[@DancesWithSloth]

@Sharkzer ...What? dude that was straight gibberish

[@nothing-xu8ef]

Danceswithsloths ma nigga one of them internet trolls. thirst’n 💦 for sum attention, ain’t KZbin without em

[@gosaelius8135]

@Sharkzer jummijammi emppu :D

[@savagediamonds1120]

Imagine driving by and seeing one these things break off and start flying

[@pdkodude283]

Says it all on the description...200,000 turbines operating. 117 catch fire. So that's 0.0585%. Wind turbines create free energy for millions of households. Yes. They are environmentally friendly.

[@geeterdun5966]

free my ass

[@pdkodude283]

@@geeterdun5966 What I mean is that it doesn't require energy input to create power once they are in place. I understand that they aren't free to manufacture/install/maintain. Then again neither is a Nuclear Power plant.

[@redmercury1159]

free energy my ass. its called subsidies for wind energy. people in nearby cities that do not have turbines end up paying more so that people who live in cities with wind turbines can pay less. its nothing more than a tax break that somebody elses fits the bill for. just like when obama was handing out subsidies for people who buy hybrid cars. he just ended up making them pay it all back the next year. NOBODY gets anything for free when it involved the government.

[@ethanlamoureux5306]

Free energy? Wind power is one of the most expensive sources of electricity! And how are they environmentally friendly? Look at the bird kills, the noise and sight pollution, and all the pollution involved in the manufacture and maintenance of these monstrosities!

[@pdkodude283]

@@redmercury1159 See above for clarification of free energy. I'm not an idiot. I understand they aren't free to install. But wind turing a turbine creating electricity is free energy in the sense that it doesn't require fossil or nuclear input to make it work. I'd love to see your evidence of government ramping up people's energy prices to lower others. Energy is expensive...wind energy less so. If you live in an area supplied by wind farms then you're energy will be priced lower. Fact. Move house...better still install solar.

[@johnnymiller1722]

Why do cars fail? Are they unreliable? Are they safe for the environment? Post your answers down below in the comments section!

[@petersmythe6462]

1. They're complex machines with unbelievable stresses on various parts. 2. Yes. 3. No.

[@MySandClock]

lol, did you not understand his irony? really?

[@familysizebagofchips3612]

Peter literally bikes to work wherever he goes lol

[@iamisro6636]

when someone tells you 300 story and you suddenly ask, oh so this is how romeo met juliet . Wake up dumbo.

[@surenkushwah8763]

Johnny Miller राम राम

[@MrBarrynicholas]

Amazing that the title reads windmills and not wind turbines.

[@kkknotcool]

"a machine for producing continuous power in which a wheel or rotor, typically fitted with vanes, is made to revolve by a fast-moving flow of water, steam, gas, air, or other fluid." I don't know if you have been around wind "Turbines" much but they are not continuous. They always seem to be shutting down because the wind is to slow or the wind is to fast or they just feel like it for all I know.

[@MrOpenGL]

Be aware that "continuous" in that context means that (as long as there is wind) the power output is constant, unlike a petrol/diesel or steam engine that has some moments where the engine is coasting (not producing any power or consuming power to compress air) and the load runs off the flywheel. It isn't related to the fact they aren't able to run because there isn't enough wind.

[@BoksCar29]

Aint it the truth. It cranks me up when I drive by these wind generating farms and see how many blades are not turning knowing that my tax money is subsidizing those non-turning tax drains.. The owners make money no matter if the blades are turning or not.

[@jmgraydz]

you are kidding right. you are why this country is failing

[@janetgriffiths7200]

Solar is better. That's what we have.

[@JG-xh5bp]

Before you guys comment, you should actually read his stance on Wind Power (article link in description.) He is not pro-fossil fuels, nor does he discredit Wind Power. He states that the current way we manage Wind Turbines is too much of a liability and we need to figure out how to prevent fires, which in term, prevents losing millions of dollars. He includes a graph and cites a solution to the fire problem involving lubricant, hypothesized by a trusted engineer. He even promotes wind power build kits. Please research before you comment.

[@Lolero]

Bird: flying noises Windmill: BEGONE

[@simonvreman]

0:22 close to my house, it was taken down on purpose. There is a new one there, not exactly friendly for the environment but not a fail.

[@DanYHKim2]

Thank you. I suspected that was the case. There is almost no environmental impact from taking down one wind turbine, though. I'd think that plowing that field would be more environmentally damaging than the wind turbine takedown.

[@DJGaetz]

From a channel called engineering world... lmfao

[@Starnas]

Bro his channel literally says "ew"

[@Scrod117]

WIND TURBINE FAILURES: 1: Struck by lightening 2. A bid got hit by one of the blades (Only one that was the fault of the turbine) 3: An old, outdated design of a turbine collapsed 4: Someone forgot to turn one off during a storm 5: Same as #4, someone forgot to shut one down during high wind speeds Yup, all of these were definitely the fault of the wind turbine.

[@ursulasmith6402]

Turbins: " All we are is junk in the wind.....". Junk in the wind all we are is junk in the wind... oh oh oh, lol

[@mnlepaw336lab7]

1:51 this is my favorite one because it went so fast. That made me laugh

[@jevoulaispasdecompte]

You hear that a lot he

[@eugenelevin5381]

Number 5 didn't fall collapse on accident it was on intentional because they were removing it.

[@Brok.]

4 wasn't a fail either- the turbine was performing as intended, and 2 was done intentionally to determine the turbine's maximum stress limit.

[@nigelmitchell351]

Eugene Levin , why ?

[@jeppehede5883]

Number 2 was not intentional it happend under a storm in Denmark where the brakes failed

[@TeaDog14]

*Windmill accidentally kills 1 bird* "IS THIS ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY" *Oil spill happens killing thousands possibly millions of living organisms* "Hey man, it happens"

[@TheXanderGrim]

you do realize Oil is a natural substance right ......

[@TeaDog14]

@@TheXanderGrim I never claimed it wasn't? Oil spills kill thousand of birds, turtles, otters etc. and that's a fact. Oil being used for gas causes co2 pollution which will eventually melt the poles killing every animal up there as well. It will also cause sea levels to rise which will end up causing many humans to die as well for various reasons. It being a natural substance doesn't make it environmentally friendly lol.

[@aslerunarborgersen5175]

Windmills kill thousand of big birds every year. Especially eagles and owls, plus bats. Windmills are not eco friendly at all. In average they just produce 1/3 of their capacity due to unstable wind conditions.

[@davidknez98]

@@TheXanderGrim loool yes, uranium/mercury/cyanide etc. are also a natural substances but you would't want to have them in your drinking water would you

[@FadedHeroFound]

Leaky pipes aren't tho

[@Janina-qq1cp]

R.I.P brid

[@curtnicholson7771]

So I'd really like to know if the base on the first one was poured to shallow as I see it pulled it right out of the ground as it toppled over!

[@martinallenuk]

Now let's take a look at what happens when a nuclear power plant fails...

[@_Mitchell_YT]

hahahahhaa

[@rorye4963]

Well that took about 2 minutes. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_and_radiation_accidents_by_death_toll#List_of_accidents Coal at 15,000 deaths per trillion kWhrs produced, while nuclear is the least at zero. Wind energy kills a mere 100 people or so, the majority from falls during maintenance activities. In England, there were 163 wind turbine accidents that killed 14 people in 2011. Wind produced about 15 billion kWhrs that year, so using a capacity factor of 25%, that translates to about 1,000 deaths per trillion kWhrs produced (the world produces 15 trillion kWhrs per year from all sources). - from www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2013/09/29/forget-eagle-deaths-wind-turbines-kill-humans/ So unless you care more about dirt than you do your fellow man you are wrong.

[@elmariotti934]

So, after all the statistics ... i would still prefer the windmill crashing to a nuclear power plant fail ... just my 2 cents

[@rorye4963]

@@elmariotti934 You should look up Chernobyl, it wasnt very deadly compared to the good it had done, that is why i say if you choose wind you care more about dirt than human life. If your take is you care more about the environment it would be a better arguement.

[@leroibolos4679]

Chernobyl is still a no go area for humans. There were also large cancer clusters where the radiactive cloud passed by - My wifes family lives in one the areas so I have personal experience. Choosing dirt over wind No entiendo?!

[@blackturbine]

well wind turbine goes up in flames mostly because of hydraulic failure it cannot control blades pitch any more, starts to spin to fast generator and gearbox overheat ant then fire lot of it

[@engineeringworld.]

Thank you for your valuable input it was indeed informative.

[@kawasakiwhiptwo5821]

I was wondering why there was so much fire and smoke, forgot about the hydraulics. (oil).

[@blackturbine]

kawasaki whip two wind turbines in this video that are collective control can hold up to 30L of good stuff 40 if yaw is hydraulic powered

[@blogengeezer4507]

The fiberglass and other composites continue the combustion. Most people do not realize that the blades themselves are hollow fiberglass shells. During runaways, they fling themselves for great distances... if remaining intact. Read about the maintenance crew on one tower trapped during the intense, deadly fire. Rescue, if even possible, is rare.

[@blackturbine]

Blogen Geezer true keeping it light so it doesn't break from its own weight

[@TheNextTurn]

Yes a farm with 100 wind turbines and when one fails ... OMG we only have 99 left. When a Oil refinery catches fire or coal fire plant fails the WHOLE system is done for weeks

[@melter3098]

Or when Nuclear Plant explodes and almost irradiated half of Europe: Nah this was just human error, and as we all know, human errors don't happen twice

[@aesopshair6690]

Have you got any clips of other power station failures for comparative purposes... Coal/gas/nuclear?

[@coreytrevor424]

Title is either clickbait or this video was only made for propaganda purposes. Wind turbines can have problems just like any other energy source but compared to coal they're clearly better for the environment.

[@darabradley5173]

Terry Melvin and the hills and mountains of Ireland 🇮🇪

[@bitrexgm]

it would take a crew of a half-dozen guys and a couple trucks maybe a week to pick up the pieces of these fails vs. whatever it costs to clean up 1 million barrels of oil in the ocean

[@austindenotter19]

How are they better for the environment when they dont produce enough revenue to sustain themselves? You can not rob Peter to pay Paul.

[@RayBlackburn]

You are absolutely wrong as it takes coal oil and gas to manufacture and keep a wind generator running It actually uses more coal oil and gas to build and install one then keep it running than it will ever be able to save over just using coal fired generators In short you are the one spewing propaganda

[@behindthewallsleepin]

Terry Melvin they're certainly less ugly than a coal mine! Less of an eyesore too.

[@rafishaheenian2468]

Thanks for sharing, but, I must say, the title is a bit off, and the details are a bit lacking.

[@Novusa]

Not to see if wind tirbines are friendly

[@jerrysmith7449]

IG Midas - What are trying to say?

[@shurshot2764]

a BIT????????????????

[@JonDingle]

@@Novusa Any wind turbine failure is environmentally safe compared to a hydro dam bursting, a steam boiler exploding and a nuclear power plant "incident"!

[@Flassh81]

You know, I can show some videos of house failures and how deadly those are to the environment. But you would still need shelter

[@newchannelcheckaboutpage2140]

Another time is at 1:52 that turbine went crazy looked like a tornado at 100 mph.It would of scared me if I saw it.😱😨

[@joshc9483]

Roblox Plays I am not liking your comment.

[@newchannelcheckaboutpage2140]

It’s at 1:50

[@joshc9483]

Still not.

[@Henriburger1]

1:37 I wanna know how many MegaWatts that thing was generating before it exploded.

[@baldi_real_no_fake]

1:36

[@RnR5]

0:42 Clearly the bird is Suicidal

[@wcanaday234]

They seem to be drawn to them. Bird kill is a serious issue. I think they can't figure out what they are, but, since they are in their territory, are looking for a way to chase them away.

[@owenprince4823]

The birds are drawn to the tall wind turbines because they are very tall and the birds think it would be a good place for a nest to be safe from critters on the ground. There is turbulence around the blades that create a vortex that pull the bird into the blade so it may seem like a dumb bird but the nesting is the bait and the blade it the death trap. I have a design that gives them a place to nest on top with no danger of getting hit by a blade.

[@RnR5]

What is that Design ? :O

[@rpotter6147]

So are people that support this hideous scar on the land. If you really think this is the way to save the earth from our energy addiction dream on.

[@owenprince4823]

There is a way to save the earth from peoples energy addiction. Remove all people from the planet :)

[@thomasjones9394]

We should paint them green so they fit/blend in

[@davros0007]

Thomas Jones Then we can get more birdstrike vids!

[@thomasjones9394]

Green half blue half. Perhaps a whistle at a pitch birds can hear but not humans.

[@engineeringworld.]

This would be rather more effective.

[@ihcnavistar7293]

Julia Sjögren No, it doesen't. It is a video of windmills, dumbass. There is nothing to disprove Global Warming in it, despite what you and your fellow conspiretards want to believe.

[@Sammakko7]

Thomas Jones BECAUSE THE SKY IS GREEN AND NOT BLUE AND WHITE!!!

[@kaffii]

I was gonna hide in the comments from the collapsing huge fans but everyone’s so salty I’d rather be a bird caught in a blade

[@Scrod117]

Well it's for a good cause a least, right?

[@kaffii]

@@Scrod117 i forgot i even commented this what is this video

[@christophercotton9048]

1:05 Cue the TPIR Losing Horns for that poor birdie.

[@epicmits]

This video was probably made by a petroleum engineer.

[@MartijnGP]

Sole Survivor So are most of the comments. They are increasingly out of work anyways :P

[@MartijnGP]

stephen dwyer That is soms excellent reasoning you got there!

[@BoksCar29]

Well of course,!

[@wvelez9241]

Politician claiming to be an engineer were the makers of this video

[@ailyngarcia7243]

Marley Ottman dweee

[@aaronsmith5687]

Alot cleaner than coal... yeah birds might get hit rarely but at least their not flying through clouds of smoke and smog. Most of the windmills in the video are old. New ones are made with gears that keep them from spinning too fast

[@KILLKING110]

your not right about the bird statistic the Fish and Game estimates 10,000 birds a year are killed by wind farms and the power companies that build these wind farms get free pass to kill bald eagles while us peons are fined and possibly jailed if we kill a bald eagle.

[@MrJokkoma]

KILLKING110 Do you know how much birds traffic kill every year? This ain't nothing in comparison.

[@johnjohno410]

It's cats that kill more birds than anything else. Then there is buildings that kill more birds than wind mills.

[@MrJokkoma]

John Johno I think it's safe to say that there is a lot that kills more birds than windmills.

[@PJB4453]

Nuclear is the best.

[@teawrecks1243]

0:56 this is Rovio's fault, their games are giving impressionable birds delusions of grandeur

[@CuttingEdgePowerLLC]

What features should have a good windmill?

[@jaygee6738]

OH WOW!!!! Look at the hundreds of miles of coastline ruined when the windmill explodes.

[@zeeshansandrana3728]

Very nice and warm

[@evelevelin]

nuclear power plants clearly are better

[@EleanorPeterson]

Hi, Jay Gee - Careful, my friend: the free use of irony and sarcasm can confuse KZbin's more literal-minded viewers. Meanwhile... Yep, you're right to be outraged. It must have taken four guys two or three HOURS to clear up that mess. I mean they'd need a broom and a bucket; maybe even a shovel and a truck. And you can bet that the unfortunate bird (a vulture, I think) was disappointed not to have had its feathers coated in lovely black gunk before it got clobbered. Hey, if it WAS a vulture, do you think it was hanging around hoping to feed on birds killed by the turbine's blades? Now THAT would be ironic...

[@MegaJimbob125]

Complete disaster. Destroyed the ozone layer and now there's less oxygen on the earth 🤣

[@arussianhuman5160]

Hey look at the minimal destruction when a nuclear plant goes bam

[@kenet71]

lack of maintenance & human error.

[@engineeringworld.]

Thanks for your feedback !

[@botaautomaticweldingandcut3923]

Every coin has two sides, maybe we could learn it from these lesson, and find a better solution

[@Michael-bg3hn]

Melluns 07 accutally 331 tons of coal equals about 662,000 KWh but in a year a windmill produces about 6,000,000 KWh hypertextbook.com/facts/2006/LunChen.shtml www.ewea.org/wind-energy-basics/faq/

[@mossfet]

yes, most of these look like they were just running in harsh conditions, wind turbine blades rotate so they can be toggled on and off.

[@Ackelope]

Of course they make enough and more than what was required to make them. If they didn't they'd be economically inviable and people would've realized that a while back.

[@barneyboy7771]

I am pretty sure that the following list of mechanical devices listed when built contain these items. using hydraulic oil, plastics, electric motors generators (alternators) and are known to give major problems when they do break down. Planes, cars, trucks, earth moving equipment, ships, all large modern buildings (industrial and commercial). Rockets both commercial and military

[@kg4tnp]

Good thing those older units are being phased out for ones that don't have these issues, but strangely the anti-windmill people always forget to mention that fact.

[@jamest3552]

Nah, windmills are great & nostalgic, wind turbines suck though.

[@triz313]

Their fail rate is hilariously low. I think its good for people to understand that they aren't infallible, but this video and headline are pretty much click bait.

[@scottday1988]

triz313 they are still shit and worthless. Tree hugger propaganda.

[@triz313]

@@scottday1988 I mean if science is propaganda... Look, I'm not going to take the jobs of oil workers and coal miners away. It's a finite resource, but it's still important. But as a country, and as a global community, we've got to find better sources of energy. There's a reason miners get black lung. There's a reason oil spills kill and some wells poison. You've got to be honest yourself about whether or not you would want to live next to a plant spewing pollution next to your house. I'm willing to bet you don't live anywhere near a place like that.

[@badreality2]

@@triz313 Look up LFTRs, and Kirk Sorenson.

[@triz313]

badreality2 Thorium. I watched a few docs about it. Very intriguing.

[@scottday1988]

triz313 not far from one coal gens don’t spew smoke like they used to. As an oil field worker I can vouch that we make as small a foot print as possible. We are conservationists we live here too. We go out of our way for wild life. I agree with the finding new energy sources. I just hate wind and solar. Wind turbines are ugly unsightly landscape spoiling hideous junk. Solar field are built in wet lands they don’t produce enough energy for the space they take up

[@williamking632]

I just got into the industry of wind turbines.. even though some break down, i was told maybe ten a year across the country, the worst part of a wind turbine is the ladder on the inside that a technician has to climb to get to the top for maintenance.. it is over 250 feet to get up there.. I would put a turbine in my backyard before a coal mine.. so if these things fail, it’s because of age, human error or an act of god...

[@Kazilikaya]

Texas is experiencing rolling blackouts as wind turbines freeze in a winter storm.

[@DatsOdd]

I feel bad for those Texans, their wind turbines down there in the south aren't built for the cold like ours up here in SW Minnesota.

[@vincentrobinette1507]

The fifth one was the best by far!(#1) the second one, (#4) was a planned demolition, not a failure. You can't see the cable that leads down to a tandem axle dump truck used to pull it down, but the horn sound was produced by that truck, to warn, that the turbine was about to topple. The excavator to the right of the turbine was probably used to dig around the foundation, so the truck could pull it down.

[@Forkontheleft]

lets ask what the gulf of mexico would rather take a second chance with, oil or wind

[@blackhatter011]

Oil of course.

[@carlboag6758]

mike jakob dsss

[@evangunderson5229]

mike jakob think of the power it would bring in

[@jonathanniay4649]

absolutely, we can also ask fukishima and prypiat about nuclear or wind....

[@commondirtbagz7130]

Jonathan Niay id be willing to bet they’ll pick wind

[@Tim7400]

People saying windmills are useless are useless. In Denmark we have offshore windmills. In 2015 we produced 48% of all consumed electricity by windmill. People saying the energy used to produce a windmill exeeds the produce in the windmills lifetime are ignorant. Most of the windmills components are recyclable. What is the price of digging up, transporting and burning coal? What is the price of digging up Uranium ? Most coal today is not dug up locally anyways. It gets shipped half-way around the world.

[@komtasu]

What is the price of mining iron ore what is the price of transporting the ore and smelting the ore most of which is not mined locallly but shipped half way round the world as is a lot of components that go into the making of these white elephants and the threat to wild life and the visual impact.They are the most inefficient of generating electricity.

[@komtasu]

They tried renewable energy in Australia the result during high winds power cuts because these eye sores do not work in high winds.

[@Dr3ist3r3ricLP]

True story

[@blogengeezer4507]

When the wind turbines can at the least, power the mining, the processing of raw materials, the manufacturing of the product, the shipping, the destination + set up and maintenance for their usable life, then they will become 'Sustainable'. As they presently function, they Consume far more energy, including prodigious fossil fuels. More 'Energy' than they produce, translates into un-sustainable.... and in Total negative effects placed onto the planet earth, anything but 'Green'. Massively tax Payer subsidized 'Green'. Like building the ancient Pyramids. Kept countless thousands of people busy at every stage of construction and logistics, while leaving monuments to man. Difference is the Pyramids last a lot longer and generate tourism that Really generates shared wealth.

[@gahtsno1]

The fart with un-sustainable is just wrong if they are set up in the right place. Where on earth did you do some math???

[@leifjohnson617]

Are you going to compile a video of all the cars exploding. all of the wells blowing. up, all of the sea platforms going down in flames?

[@halbrown7121]

It is a true joy to see these things self destruct.

[@jamiebales8394]

Funny looking windmills.. Where do you get the flour?

[@benconway9010]

Jamie Bales lol

[@47485ksc]

Uh, WalMart, aisle 12? You should have known.

[@moondog3040]

from the birds the blades mash up ......"MAN...it is tuff to be a bird"....look it up..funny Disney cartoon

[@dansmolen1618]

Yamaha SR650 are the maxi pads for tt500 dirtbikers right next to that,or one aisle over?

[@jamiebales8394]

Shots fired.

[@Jemalacane0]

Use vertical axis wind turbines with bird screens.

[@Hells_Gate]

use river and sea turbines and chop up fish instead, remember Nirvana said fish dont have any feelings :)

[@BryanYachimetz]

VAWTs are less efficient than HAWTs.

[@maalsy]

Gammareign no they don't they have nothing to keep the birds away. I know this bc my dad is building a wind farm

[@ngkirby9523]

Number 5 : it face plants... My lil bro watches He : face plants

[@casek1238]

like the propeller of an airplane, that pulls the entire airplane forward, a windturbine also wants to move, but it is fixed on its pole. It still wants to move, so with heavy windblow it breaks from its fixing foot.

[@PhobosTK]

I can't see how the 4th is a turbine fail. The 2nd is epic

[@NaumRusomarov]

#2 probably someone forgot to turn it off or it was a malfunction, they're not supposed to work during a storm with winds that exceed a certain nominal velocity.

[@dfl4701]

I kind of feel like that bird was an idiot....

[@MrKaiju-sr8wu]

that is what we call natural selection, mah boy

[@ilcondottierocartografo6770]

Same

[@averageguy7932]

agreed

[@jep9092]

Yes

[@Handle3585]

A bird brain, if you will

[@lostmic]

Imagine you were inside that windmill watching the gears turn and going faster and faster on number two lol

[@bluebird5361]

In Holland two people WERE inside, and they got burned alive!

[@lostmic]

@@bluebird5361 What woh, that's insane lol

[@Deiftwaser]

1:47 Jesus! That thing could take off

[@DazzaJay]

I saw #2 (1:44) on the TV Show "Destroyed in Seconds" It's failure was caused by a *faulty braking system* - that and it was essentially in a hurricane when the brakes failed. Fast wind speed, plus the failed braking system caused the turbine to spin far faster than it was ever designed to. it literally tore itself apart from the centrifugal force.

[@engineeringworld.]

That was quite informative. Thanks for the feedback !

[@sustainablesa]

Wow, thanks for posting the video of the windmills on fire. That just looks horrible, almost as horrible as fires I've seen at oil and gas wells or refineries. Or when I've seen an oil spill from a pipeline leak or offshore drilling site catch fire and leak for weeks and months.

[@DavidStrchld]

Old post I know but I just saw this and that smoke of the wind turbine fire seemed about the same as an oil power plant while it fired up each (and every) morning at a place I used to live. So one time vs every morning.

[@smokinwoodz]

@@DavidStrchld finally someone who knows that turbines dont emit smoke regularly lmfao

[@zuzaratrust]

1:36 that's going so fast it broke that must be windy as heck ;-; jesus christ

[@Bullrino_GojiYT]

0:40 bird:going to the MOOOOOON windmill:GOING TO HELLLLLLLLL

[@victorl.6128]

Exxon Valdez. Three Mile Island. Chernobyl, Fukushima......ETC. Five wind turbines OMG. Eyes, ears and mind need to be open. If some one says "no regrets" they are a lair or a fool. But thanks for the thoughts Jon.

[@rossy2998]

My country has enough hydro power to power the country until it has about 1.5x the current population but they have to go and put ugly fucken wind mills that are huge. They cover the ranges and have ruined the landscape.

[@TheXanderGrim]

TMI was not as bad as people think . and the main issue is in this area we have a radon issue which causes thyroid cancer people do not take that into account Fukashima was a natural disaster it could happen anywhere it was stupid to build it in a subduction zone Exon was a bad captain who was drunk at the helm . Also you are ill informed on Gen 3 nuclear

[@ethanlamoureux5306]

Wind and solar are more deadly than nuclear. And we don’t get much electricity at all from petroleum, so why the mention of Exxon Valdez?

[@topwilkon9652]

I saw a wind turbine kill a dolphin. It was brutal.

[@GrrMeister]

Sure it wasn't a 'Flying Fish' ⚠ ☠ ♒ ✌

[@CL-lk5kz]

how can it kill a dolphin, it can't be on water -_-

[@topwilkon9652]

@@CL-lk5kz it was a Japanese model

[@gheetza14]

Link pls

[@toughtalk747]

C L kzbin.info/www/bejne/aqq2qIl6h7B2pNU Are you sure?

[@-A-Svsprakash]

No these are not harmful..we cannot judge them by few incidents

[@cellogirl11rw55]

It seems like the one that was in high wind just spun so fast that its blades had a structural failure and flew off. I also understand that windmills have a braking system, so, if that system fails, the blades may break from the centrifugal force caused by the excessively fast spinning.

[@jamest3552]

Windmills are for grain, wind turbines are for power.

[@phuonglam5363]

R.I.P Bird

[@gertjanvandermeij4265]

Fuck that stupid bird !

[@marcushenness6437]

The next state over from me has only a few hundred windmills. I talked to an ex co worker, who used to work on them, and he said they find thousands of birds dead every year from windmills. He said the blades are too thin and aerodynamic so they basically run so silent birds don't detect them.

[@rustyshakleford7002]

@@marcushenness6437 I monitor several 2.2 mgw turbines near a very bird populated lake, in 5 years I have never found a dead bird, I have seen them playing in and around the blades as they run, eagles, hasks even buzzards, they don't seem to be bothered.

[@knottreel]

The eagle has landed.

[@bernihautzi1604]

Titanic: yea 😭😭😭😭😭 😢😢😢😢:(

[@TheSeandelgatto2001]

million of automobile failures a year (Environmentally friendly?)

[@Apjooz]

Nope. Some are quite the selective environmental activists.

[@docpossum2460]

The statistics of fatal car crashes do put gun death statistics to shame.

[@revolutionaryprepper4076]

The one thing I will say about wind turbines, is that they're often deadly for birds. Wind turbines have many birdstrikes every year. Not to mention the fact, of something going wrong, with the turbine mechanically; that causes them to fail. The more turbines there are, the more they should be monitored to make sure that they are functioning properly. Just something to think about.

[@rockyford3]

Um... yea you are an expert like many others on this forum/page..

[@lexian2348]

1:36 i always knew wind turbines were jsut upscaled ventillators

[@briansteffmagnussen9078]

I think that scene number two was a Danish mill. That mill took some severe force but had to give up after all. I was working at the plant where they cut the steel from coils for the towers and where the bottom flange flange was cut with plasma burner. The reason for the mill malfunction was the brakes that failed allowing the mill to run free in very strong wind. the bottom flange should be 30 centimeters thick and the plasma burner cuts with a tolerance of 1,5 millimeter. All steel for the tower body is certified and stamped with highly approved quality control. The yield stress of the steel for the tower body should be 350 to 400, not sure after so many years. The steel was made in Sweden from the best material from the company SSAB Svensk Stål Aktie Bolag. The yield stress number stand for the strength and flexibility of the steel.

[@engineeringworld.]

That was informative ! Thank you for your feedback !

[@briansteffmagnussen9078]

And Happy New Yeah ;)

[@NorDank]

Too informative

[@stevehawking2818]

This whole comment thread is hilarious. Wind and solar are not meant to replace fossil fuels anytime soon. The whole point is to have a diverse energy portfolio. If some of that can come from renewables, great! Wind turbines certainly pay for themselves through the power they generate. The turbines I work on have produced nearly 6,000,000kwh since they were constructed. I have now idea what the purchase agreement is that our customer has with the utility but, turbines cost between 2-5 million depending on the machine. Over a turbines life it absolutely pays for itself. Subsidies...the oil industry is one of the most subsidized industries ever. Yes renewables need them. That doesn’t mean they never pay their debt to be produced or operate. Why the hell would any be built if they literally made no money?????? No renewables aren’t reliable like a coal, natural gas or a nuclear plant. They are built to SUPPLEMENT THE PORTFOLIO. Birds and bats get killed by cats in droves compared to what a wind farm will cause. There were many in the early days that were built in areas where endangered birds lived though...that practice has changed as the industry evolved. There are land based turbines producing 6+MW being built and they are continuing to get better. Do research that doesn’t only cater to your perspective. So many people are in an echo chamber. Think a bit. Cheers!

[@vincentrobinette1507]

You are exactly right, for now. There is only a finite amount of fossil fuels available, and when they get to a point that it's no longer economical, it's going to be a much easier transition if we have a good head start.

[@Jon-hx7pe]

Except they don't supplement, they mostly generate power when it's not needed.

[@vincentrobinette1507]

@@Jon-hx7pe That's one of the major problems, They're considered "negative load", for just the reasons you described. The random intermittent output is why they can never exceed about 20% of our power portfolio without becoming problematic to grid stability. I'm a big advocate of grid scale energy storage, to level all this out. That's the one technology that just hasn't developed yet, but it's the most urgent. Energy storage would allow the storage of energy when available, and supply it to the grid during periods of high demand. Then, anything that puts power onto the grid, becomes generating capacity.

[@scar445]

some years back, they discovered an enzyme in the feces of zebras that can turn an oil barrel of grass clippings from mowin the lawn, into a barel of biofuel in less than a month. why it hasnt been exploited, is beyond me.

[@justincarter1950]

We designed things like engines to run on oil ...oil was already here not hurting anyone...we have made the problem we create pollution not the oil...oil = money...its about money nothing else...

[@a64738]

The real problem with wind turbines is they do not give stable power, only day to little and next day to much so you must have other power options ... Also the wind turbines wear out and is expensive.

[@scottprodj]

A bird flies into a wind turbine, killing itself, and the turbine "failed." Interesting twist.

[@amadeuszsobota1039]

Just look at the first one =) another failure

[@adrianomaccaus8717]

2:08 When you are a wind turbine and you realise that you are on the Teletubbies' hill

[@Sol92692]

Wind turbines kill between 214,000 and 368,000 birds every year. Before anyone gets their panties in a bunch over this number, you need to consider that 998 million birds die every year striking windows and skyscrapers .

[@heroninja1125]

998 million lmao not realy that would mean close to a billion birds die to that its around 200k-1.5mil birds die to thoes while 10-35 million die to hunters every year and a 40-95 die from coal industrys

[@legosam2067]

They should all have a safety mechanism like if the wind speed is too fast.

At 1:23.. " ahhh yo yo yoooo yohh tissss shhhh " 😂😂😂

[@SilentStorm54722]

I think the benefits still outweigh the cons by a long shot. The first was a controlled demolition after lightning probably struck the turbine hard enough to do damage to the structure as well as fry some of the electrical instruments inside and at the base. The second wasn't so much a failure, just a drawback that comes with owning windmills. There are ways of avoiding wind blades hurting the local and migrating wildlife if you're willing to see through it's production. The remaining three are just examples of free-wheeling.. when the wind is too high for the wind turbines to handle and the electricity produced overloads the windmill's integrity. For two of them the turbines themselves exploded because the wasn't a grounded dump-off for the excess electricity to escape to, which woud've helped to avoid the issue. The one that snapped in half had so much vibrating down to it's base that the metal likely cracked and bent until it fell.

[@PhilDesigns]

you know your stuff ? you working on the turbines ?

[@SilentStorm54722]

I have read a lot on the subject. If I can get a job with windmills, I am doing what I can to see it through.

[@PJB4453]

They cost too much.

[@fromagefrizzbizz9377]

+Dave Micolichek Precisely. They're designed to turn at a constant speed, and they control speed primarily by changing blade pitch. To do this the pitch has to change when the windspeed changes, or the output electrical load changes. Conceptually it's pretty simple. A RPM counter is used to speed of rotation. If the RPM drops, change the pitch to make it turn faster. If the RPM rises, change the pitch to make it turn slower. Simple negative feedback. If the wind gets to high, turn the blade pitch to "neutral" (you can see the successfully stopped windmills with full neutral pitch) and put on a brake to make sure it stays stopped. If the generator overheats (bearings or windings failing), do the same thing. You wouldn't use the brakes for normal speed control, because they'd burn out. They're intended to lock the hub AFTER the pitch change has brought the thing to a stop (or very near to a stop). It would use the same shutdown procedure, whether the wind was too high, or the generator caught fire etc. etc. etc. When you see a windmill freewheeling overspeed, that means either the mechanicals in the blade hub for changing pitch, or the speed/pitch control electronics have failed. There's probably some situations where the pitch management has failed, and the control circuitry slammed on the brakes in a desperate attempt to stop it. In some cases, that would work. In others, the brake assembly would catch fire and potentially take the rest of the generator hub with it. For emphasis: You literally CANNOT dump the electricity to the ground. Waste or otherwise, it's tantamount to dropping live high voltage lines on the ground. You could not approach the windmill to fix anything, because the ground will have a significant voltage differential on it. It would potentially electrify all metal in the vicinity, including wire fences, phone lines and the like. You need to stop the generator generating power. The least-damaging way is to stop the blades rotating.

[@FiloVFX]

Do a "5 Nuclear plants which Failed" and see if this is environment-friendly or not.

[@Pistolita221]

FiloClip or oil spills, or fracking, or refinery fires, or tanker explosions, or pipe ruptures or oil feild fires, or coal mine explosions/collapses. It's fucking laughable comparing a wind turbines failure to any other energy production except solar, geothermal, and hydroelelctric.

[@owenprince4823]

All nuclear power plants fail because they have no way of dealing with the waste by-product from nuclear power plants so every one of them FAIL. Every one of them are an environmental disaster in slow motion until they explode like in Japan and then they contaminate every bit of the planet. That is the biggest fail of all.

[@pauhull]

just stfu nuclear energy is safe

[@rcole1175]

Yes, "NUCLER" it is safe...until it goes HORRIBLY WRONG.

[@hmhmhmlol3252]

+John Harrison Except nobody's comparing wind to oil and coal, and when you do compare wind to solar, geothermal, and hydroelectric, wind is laughably bad. Pointing to dirty energy sources doesn't excuse wind from being the shittiest out of all the clean energy sources.

[@shaunwallace7506]

Literally just watch "water tower falling fails" now I'm watching this