Guy Masters Building A Wind Turbine Blade | Guy Martin

In his latest series for Channel 4, Guy investigates the past, present and future of British power stations to work out how the country makes its most valuable commodity of all - electricity. In this clip, Guy gets stuck in to make a wind turbine blade. To watch the full series, head over to All4: www.channel4.com/programmes/g...
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[@coolname545]

It's fascinating to see, time and again, exactly how much of a knack Guy has for all of these "odd jobs". Truly inspiring!

[@caveweta]

The scale of these towers is incredible. Over 160m diameter!

[@dankorolyk5917]

Absolutely brilliant!

[@gordonmackenzie4512]

The Jackets that sit on the seabed a hugely impressive too. There are dozens of these yellow monsters on shore near me. They are taken out one by one to sit on the seabed.

[@ecalzo]

wow.. amazing

[@antoniopalmero4063]

Big , en um ! .

[@theoutsider6191]

You'd say if you're an engineer getting into the wind turbine game might be the way to go.... 25 years and we'll need to replace all our current wind operations....

[@jay71512]

Yep and when all is said and done people will realise what a monumental waste of money and effort it all was.

[@jay71512]

Turbine blades, soon to be in a landfill near you lol.

[@infinitelyexplosive4131]

Oh no, what a disaster! There's no way our municipal landfills will be able to handle an entire **one percent** more waste...

[@jay71512]

@@infinitelyexplosive4131 yeah I'm guessing the point and you don't really mix well together pmsl

[@siiluviilu]

They're adressing this though, at least in Europe there are wind turbine blade recycling plants and theyre building more during the next 5 years. There's also 100% recycleable wind turbines now, the ones made by GE. Aaaand to top it off, ladfilling wind turbine blades is already illegal in Germany, Finland, Austria and the Netherlands and will become illegal in the whole EU in 2025, as well as making it so european blades can't be decommissioned to non-european countries. They're moving quite rapidly towards solving this, especially the resin problem, lots of institutions abd universities involved.

[@DjNikGnashers]

It will also be fascinating to see all those blades in a landfill site in 25 years, because they cannot be recycled.

[@DjNikGnashers]

@@interpolpirate You cannot recycle GRP which is what the blades are made from, it's a fact, I don't care what the video says. People will believe anything 'if a video says' because they are stupid. The same has happened to EV batteries, the 'statistics' show the majority are recycled, but the facts are the vast majority are shipped to India or Africa for recycling, and what happens is, children who are paid a pittance empty the contents into water courses and the rest is dumped in landfill. The smug EV owners driving around their gated communities in Tesla's don't give a shit about the consequences of their little feel-good bubbles.

[@landyman33]

Building them isn’t the problem, the issue is that they are burying the old one in the ground cause they can’t be recycled. They have a short life cycle as well.

[@666t]

He said that was what happened, now uses acid to remove resin and reuse fibres

[@MrDavidht]

​@@666t What happens to the acid and resin.

[@leighmcqueeney9848]

Old information. Doesn't compare to the fossil fuel industry. Not to mention the trillion + dollars and hundreds of thousands of people killed in the 3 oil wars to date.

[@dougalbadger4918]

If you took 5 minutes to watch the video you'd actually hear them mention that and specifically say they're making solutions for those problems.

[@MrDavidht]

@@dougalbadger4918 I did but heard no such solution.

[@SlowSTEN]

Let's not mention the cost to production ratio, or that its more deadly then most other forms of clean energy (ironically the safest, including all major catastrophies is nuclear)

[@blake9358]

Wrong solar panels are the cheapest form of energy, South Australia has vast reserves of uranium and the south Australian government refuses to use nuclear power. South Australia was the first jurisdiction in the world to get 100% baseload power from renewables such as wind and solar, Australia also has the highest solar irradiation in the world

[@SlowSTEN]

@@blake9358 that doesn't mean I'm wrong, it just means Australia does it bass ackwards, like they always have.

[@666t]

No nukes, solar includes wind ,water and geothermal as it caused by the sun

[@blake9358]

The turbine blades only last between 15-20 years, which makes them too expensive to generate electricity

[@666t]

Why the hate, 20 years use then rebuild

[@doxielain2231]

That's 20 years of no co2, no heavy metals from coal gasses. Like the guy said in the 90's, you need to add in the externalities to your costs.

[@dnomyarnostaw]

Sorry, where are your figures ? Have you costed the replacement costs of cavitation damage to Hydro Electric water vanes, or the vanes in Gas Turbines ? The LM2500 costs ~ 30 MW, around 11.2 million $us, and 4% maintenance costs per year is nearly 1/2 million $us per year. It has about 150,000 hours life span, or 18 years. Wind Turbines 14 mw, costs around 10 mill, and maintenance is about $US50,000 per year Extremely competitive.

[@murraycrichton2001]

And you re use coal how??

[@donkey1271]

They are not too expensive to produce energy by any means. Everything has a service life, that isn't a reason to not go for it.

[@josklos2798]

as a former employee of the wind energy industry i can tell you it is all a bunch of lies

[@mikehunt8968]

Yup, an endless stream of con jobs/scams to prevent us plebs from having freedom!

[@welditmick]

Anyone with any sense knows that. Sadly, it appears it is in short supply!!!

[@josklos2798]

@Funky Monk cost of building + maintenance > energy produced . short life with loads of problems mostly cooling of the gearbox . once a gearbox or prop failes it is a complete write off

[@SlowSTEN]

​@@josklos2798 And the fact it's is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS both to operate and live next to, especially if the braking system fails in heavy winds

[@phunkster93]

@@SlowSTEN How often do you hear of people being killed by wind turbines? That's right... NEVER. You think they are dangerous, yet there is no evidence to suggest this.

[@Back2TheBike]

Power trip? They take more power to manufacture than they generate in a lifetime. It's not wind that causes them to make money but scandalous levies on energy bills.

[@infinitelyexplosive4131]

it obviously doesn't take 100s of GWh to make a simple turbine blade, what a joke

[@jonasb911]

Honestly thats total BS. A modern windturbine breaks even with the production energy between 3 months (very good place at the coast) and roughly a year (less windy place deep on land). This doesn't factor in total lifecyle cost, but energetic cost of recycling/disposal is less than production. Giving a lifetime between 15 to 25 years it's absolutely bonkers to say that you don't get the production energy.

[@weAreNotAloneHere]

You would never think we had free energy and because of our ignorance we’ve went down this route. Mind boggling