The Fascinating Process of Installing Billions $ Wind Farms in Middle of the Ocean

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[@kennypool]

In the middle of the ocean,. Please, gimme a break

[@ardeezadeng2791]

Near the ocean??🤣🤣

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

Yes. You have a break now.

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

No. On the Earth's moon.

[@kennypool]

@@ardeezadeng2791 near the shore?

[@ardeezadeng2791]

@@kennypool yeah!! 👍🏻. That's more like it, how on earth did you manage to come up on that? I think you're a genius 😜

[@pierrebanville-yu6tv]

Windmill means these machines are creating flour, the correct term is wind turbines.

[@brianthesnail3815]

Correct. They aren't in the 'middle of the ocean either'. I am heavily involved in building UK wind farms.

[@knrao100]

Thank you for sharing this

[@trexpeditiongotravel]

Like it or not, the work it takes to create such an immense scale of windmills and turbine’s is very impressive!! An engineering marvel!

[@jaycweingardt11]

Would have been nice if that engineering and resources was put to better use.

[@trexpeditiongotravel]

We also agree!

[@pinehawk9600]

Yeah all the oil and coal they used to build this goofy crap, and these will windmills will not produce enough energy to even cover that. One big climate scam

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

👍

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

@@jaycweingardt11 👍

[@davidcarr8405]

Love to see more educational videos about the possible benefits of offshore wind - floating and fixed - but would hope accuracy would improve. The Kincardine project off the coast of Aberdeen uses the Principal Power semi-submersible platform, which has 3 vertical elements above the water surface, with tower attached at one of these vertices, and a connecting pontoon structure beneath the surface. Lots of the footage being reported as from the Kincardine deployment is actually using the Stiesdal TetraSpar, which was deployed off the coast of Norway at a test site.

[@christophershibata6527]

Fascinating Engineering

[@davidodejide2201]

This is great content 👍

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

Minion.

[@mitchellbarnow1709]

14:19 That's a way to cut corners while driving!

[@selametriyadi2062]

Good job 😊

[@ardeezadeng2791]

Nice comment 👍🏻👍🏻

[@lukeoxley7548]

"the first process of construction the blades is designing and making the glassfibre shells." Not fibreglass?

[@purplealice]

Some years ago, somebody thought of using tidal energy to generate electricity for New York City. They put a turbine in the East River (a tidal estuary with some strange currents). The tide immediately destroyed it.

[@realyield]

Tidal has never made it beyond demo projects

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

👍

[@Movieupdated95]

How long can this last in the sea floor? I'm talking about corrosion

[@realyield]

engineered for at least 35 years, there is continuous maintenance and coatings + electrical devices to prevent corrosion

[@wreckincrew2714]

@Bert Wrong! They are good for only a maximum of 25 years without any issues or wear and tear. This is a Global SCAM that is destroying the Oceans and killing untold numbers of Wales and sea life.

[@pinehawk9600]

4years

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

@@pinehawk9600 I don't believe.

[@oaktadopbok665]

Windmills at sea do not turn faster than those on land. The speed is limited to design standards and gear ratios.

[@dcrot9109]

windmills were used to mill grains down on the farm away back a few 100 years ago.......and sometime even after their popularity was dramatically reduced in the 19th and 20th century with the arrival of *steam and electrically* powered machines, *Windmills* were primarily used to mill grains or pump water, and *wind turbines* are used to generate electricity. HELLO

[@glencrandall7051]

I haven't heard anybody mention the danger of ships at sea running into one of these. How are they protected from that?

[@cousineddie7898]

I'm sure these are well Marked in all the navigational charts, as well as plenty of lighting.

[@kam5925]

I would imagine they aren't in the shipping lanes, well lit and marked on navigational charts.

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

Another 👎. I will 🙏for these people.

[@donalbershardt9290]

PRAY For the Ocean Life 🙏🙏

[@pinehawk9600]

​@@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536 over 20 whales DEAD in New Jersey

[@jaislandviewer]

This must be a service and maintenance nightmare 😱.

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

Yes. As yoi are too a nightmare.

[@MrCybernick]

Not 100s of years ............... People have been using wind energy for thousands of years By 200 BC, simple wind-powered water pumps were used in China, and windmills with woven-reed blades were grinding grain in Persia and the Middle East.

[@cancanneed8477]

👍🏻

[@kathymcbride2425]

see yer next time x

[@DontEatTheAnimals]

Why still say feet ? 192 out of the world's 195 countries use metric.

[@bicare-i5778]

Why dramatic music???? 🤬

[@david25876]

Not one sentence on how average power they can generate and what percentage it contributes to the demand. Wonder why we never hear those numbers?

[@realyield]

New generation offshore turbines are 15+ MW, each. Cheaper than most form of generation today (cheaper than coal, nuclear, usually nat gas as well)

[@mastabas]

Look it up dude. Too dumb to use Wikipedia?

[@costafortia]

What happens during Hurricanes?

[@realyield]

They're designed for hurricanes in that area of the world, the turbines will go into neutral

[@donalbershardt9290]

The Brake System Fails and they Blow Up Dumping up to 400 Gallons of Oíl.. ON and ON..

[@kmitchell9891]

unlimited energy brah

[@kmitchell9891]

@@donalbershardt9290 only 400 gallons? Come on, I want a deep water horizon sized spill. Doesn't even need a hurricane either!

[@reubennichols644]

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[@derekcrago2197]

Green energy really look at what it takes to put those together how much fossil fuel was being used???🤔

[@kmitchell9891]

I know, they should be using those fossil fuels to build more coal powerplants!

[@user-io9gw1ot1e]

استغفر الله العظيم واتوب اليه

[@RandomerFellow]

We will face a major environmental problem in the future when they have reached the end of their useful life and no one will take care of the scrap.

[@amnesiai]

I knew the oil and gas nuts would be in the comments 🤣

[@petesmith8362]

right along with the green weenies!!🤣

[@thefelper.7181]

Do you dream that those toys are going to generate enough energy to even pay up for their installation? And the "carbon footprint" associated with their manufacturing and installation? You know they won't. By the time they may have produced any sensible amount of energy...they'll need fixing and updating...at the cost of millions and burning a lot of oil. You've been mentally and materially scammed. The rest of us, only materially.

[@MichaelAussie05]

@@thefelper.7181 This exactly well said.

[@santka3739]

amnesiai 👍 There are lot of them already here ☝

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

@@santka3739 👍

[@brendaneveleigh200]

First!

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

Gay. Certainly you are. 💋s to you. In the mouth.

[@ardeezadeng2791]

Almost 🤣🤣

[@edmonblocker3465]

What a stupid idea....I don't have an extension cord that will reach that far,

[@jaycweingardt11]

"but wind is free" ...Until you try and turn it into electricity.....

[@petesmith8362]

Indeed

[@michaelanderson5975]

This is what's killing the whales

[@slickdiggler1197]

No mention of the harm to sea life these windmills are doing. Typical

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

Harm are you to the 🌎.

[@zafariqbal8267]

when you will reveal your face?

[@wearsider]

I like the idea but hate these constructions. The blades to these turbines are made from approx. 6 tons of chemicals, resins and fibre glass. People used to complain of the electric pylons and now there are hundreds and more everyday of the these turbine windparks, what a mess and eyesore. Its all about money which many turbine owners get subsidies for and is taken from your electric bills.

[@user-nh1py6kq2h]

지구를 망치는 일.... 특정 기업 세금 퍼주기....

[@user-io9gw1ot1e]

لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله

[@RickStormT]

I hate AI narration

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

Are you an official hater or a robot?

[@mohamedjarjis233]

Future is wind power source and solor

[@jaycweingardt11]

I cant wait until people realize that wind is inadequate to provide our society with the power that it needs at the price we need it It's just too expensive, kills birds, and the towers and blades have a limited life and are not recyclable. not to mention an eye sore. They are Not "green", not environmentally friendly, not renewable energy, they have become the thing they swore to destroy.

[@petesmith8362]

Your dreaming Bro.!

[@trentvo2736]

No, it is not the future it’s killing hundreds of thousands of birds each year migrating birds these things are shit

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

solar. The future is your dead. Our future.

[@dbmn7571]

Nobody "owns" the surface of or the bottom of the ocean. What or who is going to protect the windmills from intentional damage? A fence? 😂

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

God owns.

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

King Charles owns with God.

[@reddawn352]

Yes, a fence would be an excellent idea. I think our government came up with that idea. 🤔😏☺

[@ryoki_dnld]

I believe there is a vessel guard at the site..this is similiar with offshore oil platform..any installments at sea also will marked at the international navigation chart..and i believe also they design to windstormable..iv'e been at offshore oil site for about 20 yrs

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

Be a seaman and you will see the 🌎 with other mind. You must see TV.

[@Kev-C-130]

What a waste money time and effort

[@jaycweingardt11]

I cant wait until people realize that wind is inadequate to provide our society with the power that it needs at the price we need it It's just too expensive, kills birds, and the towers and blades have a limited life and are not recyclable. not to mention an eye sore. They are Not "green", not environmentally friendly, not renewable energy, they have become the thing they swore to destroy.

[@santka3739]

Any proofs? 🤔

[@Kev-C-130]

Ask Elon musk he's not a fan of then they horrible and expensive to run there far better cheaper methods I prefer nuclear power

[@jaycweingardt11]

@@santka3739 we've been investing billions of tax dollars for at least 40 years and wind is still only 9.2% of our energy mix. When nuclear came online in the 50's it only took 20 years to get to 30% of our energy, and we haven't built a nuclear plant in 30 years and still provides us with 19% of our energy.

[@kmitchell9891]

@@jaycweingardt11 Well I don't think it is possible to go 100% nuclear. There is the friction of travel for electricity transportation along lines. The plants need to be close to the people for this to be economically feasible. In the gulf more and more hurricanes will continue to cause more and more damage as ocean surface temps continue to warm up. On the West coast, mainly California, there are the risk of earthquakes and getting Fukushima'd. Hard to build nuclear plants in those areas yet that is where a significant portion of our population is based. If a bunch of wind fans get blown away that doesn't really impact the surrounding environment and population of residents nearly as much as a reactor meltdown.

[@reddawn352]

And how many years will it take before you start making an actual profit once you paid off all the costs and expenses of installation? What about when a big freighter comes through there because the pilots drunk and he cleans up half those Farms? That's one way of spending good money piss poorly and getting a very very minimal return and I'm not even an accountant! JUST SAYING! 🤔🤔

[@bobbyd6680]

You're not an accountant?

[@thefelper.7181]

You are completely right. It is materially and mathematically a scam.

[@santka3739]

flatearther detected ☝😂

[@thefelper.7181]

@@santka3739 No argument- parrot smashed. 😄😂

[@kmitchell9891]

Then the authorities are supposed to fine the company that driver works for the cost of damages. It is the shipping company's responsibility to vet their drivers and not hire drunkees. Its like saying "What happens if some drunk guy drives into an oil rig?" except that would be 1000x more catastrophic and we have been running that risk for the past 60 years. All of the sudden now drunk ship drivers are a problem? Yeah, sounds like the propaganda has you good m'boy.

[@Arthur-ke9vz]

There’s nothing good about this!!! Say no to wind power!!!!!!!!

[@ardeezadeng2791]

Why? 🤔🤔

[@masaharumorimoto4761]

@@ardeezadeng2791 It's a green-wash, the turbines are useless in 15 years, they never make good on their investment.

[@Arthur-ke9vz]

@@ardeezadeng2791 the environment is fine and coal worked well, not to mention employing thousands

[@jaycweingardt11]

@@ardeezadeng2791 I cant wait until people realize that wind is inadequate to provide our society with the power that it needs at the price we need it It's just too expensive, kills birds, and the towers and blades have a limited life and are not recyclable. not to mention an eye sore. They are Not "green", not environmentally friendly, not renewable energy, they have become the thing they swore to destroy.

[@thefelper.7181]

@ardee Zadeng Because it's clear that those turbines won't produce enough energy to compensate even for the one used to install them, ever! Plus the "carbon footprint " from making, installing and fixing them in 3 years. It's absurd, it doesn't make any good to the environment at the end of the day and wastes resources.

[@wisuthcnx6968]

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