wow... they are building like 300 of these windmills around Van Wert Co., USA , and building very quickly too. Hope none of them FAIL like this ! Wonder what wind speeds they are rated for?
@aleloooooooooya - Your ignorance is incredible. Statistically, these turbines are 4 times more dangerous to humans than nuclear power. Structural failures can fling the blades up to a mile away from the turbine. Look at this video again, watch where the blades go!
Not to mention when ice builds up on the blades, the turbines fling that too, cutting people in half.
Nuclear power is the cleanest, safest, cheapest form of energy available to us, regardless of what you might think!
@DraconiusKrynar of course is very safe to store tons of radioactive waste under the floor. More safe is when you know that we produce it faster than it degrades.
That awful problem you mention about the wind turbines is of easy solution. I supose this is an old turbine, as Denmark was one of the pioneers with this kind of energy. Otherwise it would have a simple system of blade rotation that regulates the blade reaction to the wind and helps to mantain a safe speed on storms like this.
@DraconiusKrynar Where do you get your statistics? how many people have wind turbines killed? 16 worldwide how many people has the Chernobyl incident killed? UNSCEAR say 63 so far with 6000 cases of thyroid cancer, and that is the most reserved report, you want to read Greenpeace's report, and that's one incident, it kinda dwarf's the 16 from wind energy. Wind, wave, hydro and solar are the cleanest, but your right on the cheapest part, after all that's what matters right? lol
It's like all the lights in the house got really bright then all blew at the same time. judge wapner got really contrasty then flickered off and everything.
These things are built so they can adjust the angle on the blades so they can work at almost any wind speed of shutdown completely if necessary. Something must have malfunctioned internally stopping it from doing so.
i saw this video on Destroyed in Seconds on Discovery Channel and they'd replayed it in Slowmo and then you could see that one of the blades just splinters and a few milisecs later the rest also gave up and 1 propeller struck then the tower itself lol..
I read in my paper about our own runway windmill near Tehachapi, Calif., which closed down a freeway Sun. nite. Apparently the windmill actually blows up, thus the blades & stuff would b flying everywhere. I thought the "propeller" would just detach from the axle & b spinning around, like something out of "Krull."
My dad told me about this today (He works in a windmill company at white waters... Some small company in the southern cali desert). When I saw this video...Wow, this is insane. Now I don't want to try to climb inside a windmill.
Usually they are controlled with computers to adjust the pitch of the blades so that if the wind gets over a certain speed they don't do this. I guess this is one that was not controlled and just is allowed to spin at what the wind is pushing.
Ah, alright. I did a little research and it turns out that these are an older model that are no longer in production. They don't have the pitch controls like the new models that are being built today. Which are actually quite larger than these.
wow... they are building like 300 of these windmills around Van Wert Co., USA , and building very quickly too. Hope none of them FAIL like this ! Wonder what wind speeds they are rated for?
hardrain65 6 months ago
angry nerds. not pretty
spikydipple 8 months ago
It went over 9000...
gorty12345 8 months ago
@aleloooooooooya - Your ignorance is incredible. Statistically, these turbines are 4 times more dangerous to humans than nuclear power. Structural failures can fling the blades up to a mile away from the turbine. Look at this video again, watch where the blades go!
Not to mention when ice builds up on the blades, the turbines fling that too, cutting people in half.
Nuclear power is the cleanest, safest, cheapest form of energy available to us, regardless of what you might think!
DraconiusKrynar 11 months ago
@DraconiusKrynar of course is very safe to store tons of radioactive waste under the floor. More safe is when you know that we produce it faster than it degrades.
That awful problem you mention about the wind turbines is of easy solution. I supose this is an old turbine, as Denmark was one of the pioneers with this kind of energy. Otherwise it would have a simple system of blade rotation that regulates the blade reaction to the wind and helps to mantain a safe speed on storms like this.
DayB89 8 months ago
@DraconiusKrynar Where do you get your statistics? how many people have wind turbines killed? 16 worldwide how many people has the Chernobyl incident killed? UNSCEAR say 63 so far with 6000 cases of thyroid cancer, and that is the most reserved report, you want to read Greenpeace's report, and that's one incident, it kinda dwarf's the 16 from wind energy. Wind, wave, hydro and solar are the cleanest, but your right on the cheapest part, after all that's what matters right? lol
akaAlexthekid 8 months ago
Carbon fiber is strong my ass
Notespompon 1 year ago
Dunno why but I sat laughing my head off at this XXD
TheOblivionGirl 1 year ago
AHAHHAHA DAM! that shit went crazy.
zepedamanuel15 1 year ago
is it denmark? im from there and havent heard about it in the news but denmark had a big storm in '07 not '08
1234PBM 1 year ago
ROFL
Donut117 1 year ago
FASTER!!! MORE POWER....Wind power ftw! :D
handibror1 1 year ago
It's like all the lights in the house got really bright then all blew at the same time. judge wapner got really contrasty then flickered off and everything.
sbeer6er 1 year ago
@sbeer6er lol, probably did happen lol
SWAairlinePilot 1 year ago
These things are built so they can adjust the angle on the blades so they can work at almost any wind speed of shutdown completely if necessary. Something must have malfunctioned internally stopping it from doing so.
wrangle2angle 1 year ago
@wrangle2angle Hey i am from denmark myself this was far from me. in the news they said that there was a malfunction in the brakes.
HollywoodDK 1 year ago
thats why they should be shut off when a storm occurs; at least they do that around here.
hasemithut 2 years ago
Another reason why these things shouldn't be near to houses.
newagemisfit 2 years ago
i saw this video on Destroyed in Seconds on Discovery Channel and they'd replayed it in Slowmo and then you could see that one of the blades just splinters and a few milisecs later the rest also gave up and 1 propeller struck then the tower itself lol..
Hertgers 2 years ago 2
@Hertgers lol I saw this video on Life After People on History Channel too. This particular wind turbine must be very famous
TanksSkool 1 year ago
I read in my paper about our own runway windmill near Tehachapi, Calif., which closed down a freeway Sun. nite. Apparently the windmill actually blows up, thus the blades & stuff would b flying everywhere. I thought the "propeller" would just detach from the axle & b spinning around, like something out of "Krull."
thefaboloussob 2 years ago
My dad told me about this today (He works in a windmill company at white waters... Some small company in the southern cali desert). When I saw this video...Wow, this is insane. Now I don't want to try to climb inside a windmill.
DrSirDrawsALot 4 years ago 2
That happend in denmark
danishtreat 4 years ago
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um.. ya that was me i got really mad and my energy turned in to wind and broke it.... ha i lie
blacksoilder10 4 years ago
Wow!!!!
Psychedalien 4 years ago
someone must have played the "song of storms"
LOL
shawnchon117 4 years ago
Those windmills are huge! I'm surprised it hasn't been tested for these kinds of situations.
robotai89 4 years ago
Usually they are controlled with computers to adjust the pitch of the blades so that if the wind gets over a certain speed they don't do this. I guess this is one that was not controlled and just is allowed to spin at what the wind is pushing.
Cjaiceman 4 years ago
Ah, alright. I did a little research and it turns out that these are an older model that are no longer in production. They don't have the pitch controls like the new models that are being built today. Which are actually quite larger than these.
robotai89 4 years ago
I thought it was a braking system...
KellySaunders5 3 years ago
I spose the pitch of the blades is also a braking system.
Ipwn3dI0 3 years ago
It could be, I suppose.
KellySaunders5 3 years ago
did soemthing hit it? or was it just too much wind?
m1sterh0tsauc3 4 years ago
the wind pushed hard enough to flex the blade and a blade struck the tower.... and the rest is SWEEET!!!
landcruiserlarry 4 years ago
haha i agree
m1sterh0tsauc3 4 years ago
Oh SNAP! That would suck to be anywhere near that!
Cjaiceman 4 years ago
awesome power
kaermose 4 years ago