10 Wind Turbine Failures Caught On Camera
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Published 2023-05-26
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All Comments (21)
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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!
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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.
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10:50 --- oh the sweet sweet irony EIGHT HUNDRED GALLONS OF OIL in a wind turbine!! HAHHAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!
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Imagine all the fails that weren't caught on camera 😂
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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.
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India should also try to be a world leader in holding its rivers clean
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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°
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I love seeing them self distruct.
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Wonder just how many AREN'T caught on Camera ?
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Do politicians still get kick back $ if wind mill fails?
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What about the acres of fiberglass blades that can't be reused, or recycled?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Really makes you think why you've never seen such an accident on TV...
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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.
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I had never realized how gigantic these things are ! SCARY !
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Imagine all the fails that weren't caught on camera . I had never realized how gigantic these things are ! SCARY !.
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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.
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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.
