@mca842418 The same vestas the is laying off 2300 people worldwide? Or fell the 7th in the world the last 2 years? Isle of Wight ringing any bells in your mind? Enercon and Areva/Multibrid are the biggest and best today! Vestas, maybe 20 years ago sure, but so was Nokia...
@HWGuyEG so, can you link me to the cost of a russian nuclear reactor for use in ships as opposed to the cost of the e-126? Also how much does refined uranium cost these days?
@HWGuyEG they are funny looking links. No nucelar chain reaction has ever been carried out with Thorium as fuel. Its a nice idea but it hasnt been achieved yet, so to assert that 'some reactor designs can be converted to use Thorium' is just a pure conjecture.
"No nucelar chain reaction has ever been carried out"
Ya, ok kid.
The Indians have a conventional reactor running off Throium, the Chinese have an experimental LFTR, and the Americans had one operating in OakR-NtlLab... until Regain axed the program.
You know what... Fuck all you assholes that still believe in global warming despite the 2 huge climate gate hacks and the millions al gore is making from this bullshit.
This crap can't succeed without this fucking worthless government loading up on debt and slaughtering our children's economic future. I hope you people don't have children, because they will be living a 3rd world lifestyle thanks to this generation's addiction to going into debt.
@TheMadCrumpet The dream itself is not dead at all, but the realization of it was never alive to begin with. It would be a service to the world if people did not have children as the minor problem of financial debt is largely and directly associated with the issue of overpopulation. Realize that the way of life in America was doomed from the start, and if anyone thought that their children could have it just the same as themselves, they were sadly mistaken, regardless of debt, economy, etc.
6MW my arse. That's theoretical output. Most turbines operate at around 17% efficiency, wind is unreliable and does not deliver when actually needed - they're garbage, only good for the energy companies to get rich from the payouts WE fund. Financially unviable, absolutley no contribution to CO2 emmissions, and NOT ONE fossil fuelled power station will be closed as a result. False economy only supported by armchair environmentalists and landowners.
you failed... Germany is on its way to get energy independent by 2030 from nuclear and fossil energy. Windenergy can deliver constant power if you know how... and you have no idea!
Windpower deliver the electric energy that pumps water in water reservoirs there the energy is stored in form of water and high, avaible if needed by feeding water turbins that can deliver constant power.
Cost free energy no CO2 the only investment are the windmiles and water reservoirs.
@nagmashot I'm sorry, but Germany will be nowhere near that goal in 2030. You will see this for yourself in 2030, and I hope you will understand long before then. The majority of power will still be supplied by coal based powerplants, or in a more surprising twist maybe nuclear power. Germany will not without either of the two, at least not by 2030. And by the way, the water reservoir method makes the process vastly less efficient than it already is. Vastly.
Nope. They are awsome. Better than putting smog in the air and tearing up land to get coal. Once a couple of them are up they will supply enough energy to produce more. And better than flooding land for hydro. And we have enough nuclear now that we don't even know what to do with all the spent rods. We are now paying the nuke plants with tax money to keep the spent rods stored at the power plants. Solar panels only absorbs the red light waves.
@crazy7997 Reinsulation of Commercial and domestic buildings which are leaking so much carbon of a pastime would be a start, Fuel poverty for people is no longer a pipedream.....coupling this with 'waste heat recovery' from industry and usings ame for 'District Heating ' looks on the cards if the will was there to think outside the box..........Reduce Reuse Recycle... when it comes to Enegry....
@teel6060 Well, it can't really be nonsense, because if you look back at the history of the world, the climate has been in a constant state of change.
The problem for man is that we have become too greedy & been burning too much fossil fuel. Industrialisation has increased this burning exponentially, therefore it's this that is affecting the ability of man to survive, the question is. How much longer can we continue polluting for? Climate scientists have already answered that question for us.
Hmmm, when you have your own back yard you might think differently? Wind power is not the way forward, solar yes and tidal yes but wind no - wind power is unreliable and the power can't be stored, the turbines themselves are unreliable and are often out of action, as a result we staill have to rely on power stations. How much CO2 is produced during manufacture and construction, how much concrete is manufactured for construction? The Carbon Trust carried out a survey, they are inefficient!
@TheNite98 Wind Power will always be a part of the energy mix around the world, at the moment it's only around 2%,if the world put a price on pollution, like they should have done back the 1970's that energy mix could be very different today. Every country around the world is investing in wind power, to say that the power can't be stored is a bit like saying coal fired power is stored, both of these power sources usually feed back to a power grid (power lines, then to transformers, to home/work)
this one is about 450ft tall the ones that duke energy wants to put around my house will be 500ft tall............... can't wait to see them!!!!!!!!!!!
I can verify most turbines pay themselves off in less than 2yrs. It's NOT 20 yrs. We did the cost/benefit analysis in an energy class, and the benefit is generally good and profitable as long as the wind turbines are in good wind zones of 14-18mph.
@johnb300m I also did veryfications in college, I grabbed my info not from sales people, but from manufacturers themselves, my class went into this with a blind eye, not knowing what we would find, but we all came to exactly the same numbers, we were all shocked. We went to visit some of the turbines in our area and talked to the people operating them, and our math was again verified. The lowest breakeven point I heard was 8-10 years, but that is from a salesman, which is prolly biased.
@johnb300m Then why do they govt. subsiies to remain in operation? Bring this in for your next show and tell.
1 coal bed methane wellbore - not visible beyond 1/4 mile. Produces BTU equivilent of 10, 4MW (Largest) wind turbines, which are easily visible for 20 miles, have to be backed by hydrocarbon fueled generators for downtime, i.e., no wind, huge maintenance issues, and bird murdering. There is a reason ships don't have sails anymore. Wind Turbine=CMI Collosal Monument to Ignorance.
Wind also has a much higher environmental cost than coal or oil, so while there are some places that it might make sense, it's no where near what we need to replace carbon as fuel source.
@sierracuban - 42% of Spain's energy compares to just a few percentages of American usage. It's like comparing a lawn mower to an F-1 machine.
If wind were
, then the US would be using more of it, and since I've been promoting appropriate tech for the last 30 years, I have a bit of an insight into the subject.
@hesitantxxsight In a perfect world that would be the case, if turbnes didn't need maintnance. Maintaining these things is very expensive, especially if a wind farm is located at sea.
@rickcain2320 No my crazy friend, an average turbine pays for itself in 18-20 years, depending on size, model, etc. The life span of the generator, inverters is around 20 years, depending. So almost as soon as when you start making money off of it, you have to start replacing the generator, inverters, etc. That is why there is a huge contrevercy regarding these things, they rarely pay for themselves. If 18 months was the case everyone would switch over night.
@dmitriboukalov you can repair millions of windmiles for the costs of rebuilding a single nuclear powerplant which is even more expansive than building it..
Nuclear plants are heavily subsidized by taxpayers, and private industry does not have to pay for waste removal and disposal. Its the ultimate corporate socialism.
2:17 onwards: Great comparison between famous buildings and the hight of the windmill. You can easily image the hight. Thx for the vid, wind energy is just awesome :)
@artman40 Actually, I think they shut them down when they need to be inspected, but still at those heights, my non-existent fear of heights would be turned on high. (:
Strawman oil arguments make ZERO sense. Oil has NOTHING to do with producing electricity as a FUEL itself.
Whether we have all the electricity in the world or none at all does not matter at all to the fact that we WILL have to get off oil - for all our manufacturing material needs - one way or the other, as it dwindles. Better sooner. Better to make alternatives recovering hydrocarbons now from trash ASAP.
Let's NOT start a war between the pro-solar and pro-wind people regarding the triviality of aesthetics of solar panels vs turbines.
"How they look" is trivial compared to so many other concerns.
Want to save birds? Outlaw the needless breeding and factory farming of billions of innocent chickens and turkeys each year. A slow death of lifelong confinement in a factory farm is ALWAYS worse than a quick death flying into an object.
@acavideo I have been depressed and tired over human overpopulation my whole life (for the past 40+ years), but pick on coal, gas fracking, nuclear power first, NOT wind farms. (Nice big exclusion zones around Chernobyl, Fukushima - yeah - I know wildlife has thrived again around Chernobyl BECAUSE there are no humans there, but we could simply EXCLUDE people from an area WITHOUT radiating it first if we really wanted to.)
Wikipedia says 1.3% of the world electricity is currently supplied by wind power.
There is NOTHING logical - other than stupidity and selfish refusal to change from a society that produces unnecessary crap like "financial services" and hamburgers (meat = murder) to actual useful production - preventing building 70X the number of wind turbines we already have on earth. Wind turbines = JOBS!
Bullshit: "wind turbines make noise". Continued myth that the pro-coal pro-nuclear conservatards propagate, just like the global-warming-denying conservaturds. I've stood beside them. There is NO sound.
I live next to a waste treatment plant in a gate community. It was the reason our house remained unsold for years before we bought it. Totally unfounded idiotic fears. No smell and no sound and not unsightly.
Hey, shifter: if Denmark has to EXPORT electricity that it produces from wind energy, then that destroys the LIE and MYTH that all the anti-environmental pro-nuclear pro-coal people say that "wind power can't supply enough energy". And, if producing TOO much electricity is a problem caused by wind power, making the grid unstable, then nuclear is ten times WORSE, making an oversupply of electric power.
Am I doing the calculations wrong? The Roscoe farm provides 800MW from 400km^2. The size of the US is 10,000,000 km^2. Thus covering the whole of the US (assuming scalability) with these will result in 20,000 GW. The power consumption of the US is about 30 PWh (x10^15 Wh)... So does that mean if you cover all of the US with these things you'll get about .0001% of the US's power consumption??? Doesn't seem sustainable at all?
@pnnorton Ok figured out where I went wrong... embarassing.. the PWh is in a whole year. At best (assuming full capacity all year) you need about 4000 GW of electricity capacity. So only need to cover about a quarter of the united states. GEEZZ THATS STILL PRETTY BAD.
@shogu666 What about building them offshore like they are doing in the UK, no land be used.
The US can get rid of some of those ugly, polluting oil rigs, and put some wind farms in their place.
Then they can build a nationwide electrified high speed train, BICYCLE and PRT network, all run off human,Tidal, wind and Concentrated solar thermal plants, also get everyone back into a job , no more unemployment benefits, as long as all construction and maintenance is carried out in the US! Solved!
@Keyzon We'll if it wasn't for that 42% renewable you'll be paying out the butt for oil and coal to replace that energy and it would be 2x worse for you guys.. I suspect the first country to go full renewable will have a massive economic advantage.. it then can use that money for other purposes than spending on fuel which is suspect to speculation and disruption..
@GmTruckCarLove REALLY ??? How do you propose we get out of debt ?? Any ideas ??
NO MATTER who we vote for, Republican or Democrat, it is always the SAME SHIT......I have followed every election since 1964 ( Johnson vs Goldwater ) And I wasn't even born in the United States.....How many elections have you been alive for ?? Sierra Cuban, Miami, La Florida, Estados Unidos de América
( God bless Philadelphia freedom....What a sad state of affairs....)
@sierracuban I'm not even talking about elections. I am just saying that the government has better things to put cash into. We need to pay China back or they will get pissed and kick our ass.
@sierracuban The reason we are lacking is we have to many people whining and crying that they don't want them in their back yard. I would take this over burning coal, oil, and natural gas any day.
I love when ppl say how expensive wind and solar is, but rarely is anything said of the fact that we have built the infrastructure of an entire planet on a nonrenewable, source of energy. What of the cost that will be paid in human life when that source runs out?
@samoantravv i think its best to be rational when looking st these things, the real reason why i dont like wind and solar is because they are too expensive. I have no problem with people who like these sources of energy, as long as they dont complain about electricity charges. wind can cost about 3 times as much as nuclear.as is often more dependable. in new orleans the nuclear power plant helped the services operate after katrina.
@dunemoonbeam3 in japan the plant was built in the 60's and was not designed to take a earthquake. as the reactor core itself hast exploded and wont. it wont be comparable to Chernobyl
Try again Boy King, Answer me this-Besides water , What is the most abundant liquid on the planet? Political solutions to anything result in Failure-In England they had a Heat wave & No wind (Typical) No power= No A/C ,lota old folks in distress or Dead. If you are the typical ideal for the future- Remember one thing- K.I.S.S. (Wind mills are a toy for the mindless)
100 of these running with 100% power output to match an oldish nuclear plant's output. Thanks but no thanks. Maintaining those all, a freaking 130 meter tall ugly monsters. No no no...
@stynov83 Because a nasty nuclear power plant that took years to build and will ruin the landscape and health of the people and environment is just SO much better. I'll take the tower and some solar arrays any day.
@Deposetheboyking Astounding the stupidity and idiotic strawman arguments that the anti-solar anti-wind anti-conservation pro-nuclear pro-coal propagandists spew: "Wind power won't cure cancer! Wind power won't find missing children!" Just shove that crap back in their faces: every problem that nuclear power like Chernobyl and Fukushima and gas-fracking cause takes away time and energy to cure cancer and find missing children.
Impressive piece of machinery. Hopefully they can get the manufacturing costs down and start mass-producing them. We could sure use them here in the States.
Compare the total installed cost per KW and how much land these turkeys take up against nuclear power and not until then do you realize how foolish wind turbine power as national solution. Wind turbines only run 30-40% of the time but cost 10X more than nuclear power. To expensive and to small as a real solution.
@asuperglide Ummm, except that in the U. S. we have LOTS of land. I've seen fields of these types of turbines in the midwest on long interstate drives. Plenty of space. So for those of you that love to attack anything that is not extraction "technology" for power, your bias is certainly showing. Wind will not do it all, but couple that with solar, geothermal, or many other options that are not fossil fuel derived and you have something that will work for many markets.
Atomic power,? Hippy thinking killed it.Hydro electric.Green Greed hates it. Why do "renewables" get Government grants? COAL and LOTS OF COAL shipped to China and BURNED, and when you remove a wind farm what happens to the FRP ( Fibre reinforced plastics) Hazzardous WASTE....
Neither the ROCs scheme nor FITs are government grants, as such. They're mechanisms to get the free market more renewables orientated. And yes, ultimately the cost is passed onto the consumer, ref my previous post. Governement grants are massive for nuclear power - which is not dead, unfortunately. The UK "Energy Review" in 2006 was designed to resurrect it - usual case of government's "Public Consultation" rubbish. .. and the point is to replace coal, oil, gas, isn't it?
How about the Birds and the Blited view and the noise? Yes wind turbines make noise. With Hydro you have a resurve of head pressure. In England during a heat wave power was needed, But they had No wind.......No power for A/C. Fish Breed in all sorts of water. animals on the shore can drink, Boats still float on the water. Ever try to fly through a wind farm? Mr Meddled If you don't want to use anything knock youself out-But when you use government to force your warped views on others? Fuck off !
There's little capacity for hydro. Nice idea, but no banana. Why shouldn't this generation be responsible for producing the power its lifestyle consumes? If nuclear fusion is commercially viable in 30 years our windfarms can be removed, foundations and all, and return the environment to how it was. You'd prefer to regress the atmosphere @ 3 million years pa, or leave nuclear waste for 100,000 years. You abdicate responsibility for your lifestyle to your great grand children?
UGLY ,WASTE, STUPID IDEA, HydroElectric, Power you can Drink & farm with. Wind farms? cant grow any thing and FRP for construction-That in itself is hazzardous waste.
We have a huge wind farm east of Cheyenne, WY, and many more turbines scattered throughout the area. The turbine parts are built in Northern Colorado and brought up to Cheyenne on trucks. Wind energy is a big deal here because southwestern Wyoming is always windy (and I mean always). Wyoming now produces thousands of megawatts of electricity that is used in several other states. Fossil fuels won't last forever. Wind is free, clean and will last forever. Do your own research. Think for yourself.
@slammer489...just your name, and YOU're calling me dumb ass? Oh my...You idiot, I never said to "replace" farm land with wind mills...I said, just like what they do in France by the way, to place windmills in the middle of farm land, both WORKING TOGETHER. We're surely not going to deforest to put wind mills...Yes of course we need the food AND we need the trees. Me tree hugger, but not stupid...! Me not some kind of red neck imbecile retarded aggressive neanderthal like your kind...Cheers
There are many problems with wind energy, one of them being they don't work all the time and in Denmarks case they have to export all of their energy because the turbines make the grid very unstable. waste of tax payers money.
@sh4p3shifter this is a technology problem, enercon turbines stabilized the german grid, and enercon is the best company of windpower technology, but other companies have defizit of 5 or more years.... sry for my english
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WORLD RECORD: BIGGEST WIND TURBINE
Visit: windturbinecarriedbywheels.weebly.com
ZERO-NOISE from gears and generators since they are sealed underground.
SAVES THE BIRDS AND BATS since slow-moving.
DOES NOT NEED TO OCCUPY A WIDER LANDSCAPE since the turbine can be very tall.
MAY BE LOWER-COST since it may use timber and other cheaper things.
ELUDES HURRICANE FORCE since the blades automatically close.
NO FIRE since well-cooled.
HELPS THE WIND ENERGY COMPANIES since it is FREE FOR ALL.
TheServiceWeb 2 weeks ago
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WORLD RECORD: BIGGEST WIND TURBINE
Visit: windturbinecarriedbywheels.weebly.com
ZERO-NOISE from gears and generators since they're sealed underground.
SAVES THE BIRDS AND BATS since the turbines are slow-moving.
DOES NOT NEED TO OCCUPY A WIDER LANDSCAPE since the turbine can be very tall.
MAY BE LOWER-COST since it can use parts of junked trucks and others.
ELUDES HURRICANE FORCE since the blades automatically close.
HELPS THE WIND ENERGY COMPANIES since it is FREE FOR ALL.
TheServiceWeb 2 weeks ago
I wonder if the wind turbine had warning lights for airplanes.
Mr08ShelbyGt500 2 weeks ago
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bugfreetech 3 weeks ago
These Guys have nothing on Vestas. Vestas is and will always be the world leader in wind energy.
mca842418 1 month ago
@mca842418 beautiful fanboy comment. no substance just mindless ranting.
MySchizoBuddy 3 weeks ago
@mca842418 The same vestas the is laying off 2300 people worldwide? Or fell the 7th in the world the last 2 years? Isle of Wight ringing any bells in your mind? Enercon and Areva/Multibrid are the biggest and best today! Vestas, maybe 20 years ago sure, but so was Nokia...
KBChronicler1 2 weeks ago
Funny to think the Russians have made nuclear reactors for cheaper than that thing.
HWGuyEG 1 month ago
@HWGuyEG yeah chernobyl
trotskydolan 3 weeks ago
@trotskydolan
Derp.
Nuclear powered ships.
HWGuyEG 3 weeks ago
@HWGuyEG so, can you link me to the cost of a russian nuclear reactor for use in ships as opposed to the cost of the e-126? Also how much does refined uranium cost these days?
trotskydolan 1 week ago 2
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Enercon E-126 6MW $68 Million
Russian nuclear subs have reactors between 100 and 300 MW and cost $50-80 million.
That includes the starting fuel supply which lasts 8-25 years depending on the reactor used.
Some reactor designs can be converted to use Thorium, in which case the cost of fuel is $0.
HWGuyEG 1 week ago
@HWGuyEG they are funny looking links. No nucelar chain reaction has ever been carried out with Thorium as fuel. Its a nice idea but it hasnt been achieved yet, so to assert that 'some reactor designs can be converted to use Thorium' is just a pure conjecture.
trotskydolan 6 days ago
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@trotskydolan
"No nucelar chain reaction has ever been carried out"
Ya, ok kid.
The Indians have a conventional reactor running off Throium, the Chinese have an experimental LFTR, and the Americans had one operating in OakR-NtlLab... until Regain axed the program.
HWGuyEG 5 days ago
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Beauties, I am greeting positively curly with wind.
psiodunet 1 month ago
Beauties, I am greeting positively curly with wind.
psiodunet 1 month ago
Beauties, I am greeting positively curly with wind.
psiodunet 1 month ago
I have a phobia of these things. they freak me out big time for some reason.
LadyKizzle1984 1 month ago
Power with next to no wind go to C&F how slow can u go !!!!!
Patjoeegghead222 1 month ago
A remarkable achievement. But what happens when there is no wind? All good systems have back ups. Does this one too?
silentspringreborn 1 month ago
Wow, they should use those things for housing also! That would make it more cost efficient!
bartrouw 1 month ago
I'v climb this tower last year ...its huuuuuuuugggg !!!
stevenmatane 1 month ago
You know what... Fuck all you assholes that still believe in global warming despite the 2 huge climate gate hacks and the millions al gore is making from this bullshit.
This crap can't succeed without this fucking worthless government loading up on debt and slaughtering our children's economic future. I hope you people don't have children, because they will be living a 3rd world lifestyle thanks to this generation's addiction to going into debt.
The American dream is DEAD.
TheMadCrumpet 2 months ago
@TheMadCrumpet The dream itself is not dead at all, but the realization of it was never alive to begin with. It would be a service to the world if people did not have children as the minor problem of financial debt is largely and directly associated with the issue of overpopulation. Realize that the way of life in America was doomed from the start, and if anyone thought that their children could have it just the same as themselves, they were sadly mistaken, regardless of debt, economy, etc.
12OclockLow 1 month ago
Think my neighbors would be mad if i put one of these in my yard...
renardthatch 2 months ago
This will supply the decepticons very well!
Jaket2000 2 months ago
V164 is the largest now :)
By Vestas
Pepyrss 2 months ago
@Pepyrss Maybe it`s the largest, but not the most efficent. The Enercon E-126 has 7,5MW now!!
The V164 by Vestas is not so efficent like the E-126
VestasBurnsWell 2 months ago
Development continue, this is now the biggest:
Vestas V164-7.0 MW
andersint 3 months ago
@andersint
The latest version of the E-126 has 7.5 MW, so Enercon have still the most powerful wind turbine.
adibazi 3 months ago
This most be the ugliest wind turbine ever.
hjsandersen 3 months ago
Looks like most of those U.K. windfarm projects... will be sited where the wind blows....Out at Sea...
malachy1847 3 months ago
6MW my arse. That's theoretical output. Most turbines operate at around 17% efficiency, wind is unreliable and does not deliver when actually needed - they're garbage, only good for the energy companies to get rich from the payouts WE fund. Financially unviable, absolutley no contribution to CO2 emmissions, and NOT ONE fossil fuelled power station will be closed as a result. False economy only supported by armchair environmentalists and landowners.
thankyaverymuch 3 months ago
@thankyaverymuch
you failed... Germany is on its way to get energy independent by 2030 from nuclear and fossil energy. Windenergy can deliver constant power if you know how... and you have no idea!
Windpower deliver the electric energy that pumps water in water reservoirs there the energy is stored in form of water and high, avaible if needed by feeding water turbins that can deliver constant power.
Cost free energy no CO2 the only investment are the windmiles and water reservoirs.
nagmashot 2 months ago
@nagmashot I'm sorry, but Germany will be nowhere near that goal in 2030. You will see this for yourself in 2030, and I hope you will understand long before then. The majority of power will still be supplied by coal based powerplants, or in a more surprising twist maybe nuclear power. Germany will not without either of the two, at least not by 2030. And by the way, the water reservoir method makes the process vastly less efficient than it already is. Vastly.
12OclockLow 1 month ago
★★★★★ brilliant! i got full manual how to build a small version 2KW for home if anybody looking for
makeSOLARPANELS 3 months ago
am i the only one thats loves wind turbines???
dulCISSIMA1 4 months ago
@dulCISSIMA1
Nope. They are awsome. Better than putting smog in the air and tearing up land to get coal. Once a couple of them are up they will supply enough energy to produce more. And better than flooding land for hydro. And we have enough nuclear now that we don't even know what to do with all the spent rods. We are now paying the nuke plants with tax money to keep the spent rods stored at the power plants. Solar panels only absorbs the red light waves.
crazy7997 4 months ago
@crazy7997 Reinsulation of Commercial and domestic buildings which are leaking so much carbon of a pastime would be a start, Fuel poverty for people is no longer a pipedream.....coupling this with 'waste heat recovery' from industry and usings ame for 'District Heating ' looks on the cards if the will was there to think outside the box..........Reduce Reuse Recycle... when it comes to Enegry....
malachy1847 3 months ago
how many homes could one turbine like this power up??
islandboiitsi 4 months ago
@islandboiitsi 4500 ...
zozolelapin 4 months ago
@islandboiitsi if there is no wind..NONE!
zelotbrood 3 months ago
thats one huge turbine
curingaging00 4 months ago
Saddly, what a waste of energy. HHO revolution is needed! Kill the fucking oil companies!
TheTrueJBV3737 4 months ago
Egg-on-a-stick. With propellers. XD
damaged01 5 months ago
Climate change is a bunch of nonsense!
teel6060 5 months ago
@teel6060 Well, it can't really be nonsense, because if you look back at the history of the world, the climate has been in a constant state of change.
The problem for man is that we have become too greedy & been burning too much fossil fuel. Industrialisation has increased this burning exponentially, therefore it's this that is affecting the ability of man to survive, the question is. How much longer can we continue polluting for? Climate scientists have already answered that question for us.
trisk77 5 months ago
Bard are testing turbines at 6,5 MW in Emden now.
leifis73 5 months ago
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"For the price on this windfarm they coulda built a nuclear power plant with 1000 times the output, shame."
Not really, these are €11million a piece, about $16million. The uranium for a rector would probably cost more than this windfarm.
GeorgeFlush322 5 months ago
Very cool
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ThinkStage 5 months ago
Why is it that most of the people in the comments here who argue against wind turbines can't spell worth a damn and yet claim to be college educated?
Wind power has less of an environmental impact than any other source of energy, and that's what it's all about.
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OnenessNow 5 months ago
Holy crap that is one ugly wind turbine!
7100Vegas 6 months ago
it would be funny if one of the blades fell off.
donkeydnd 6 months ago
Hmmm, when you have your own back yard you might think differently? Wind power is not the way forward, solar yes and tidal yes but wind no - wind power is unreliable and the power can't be stored, the turbines themselves are unreliable and are often out of action, as a result we staill have to rely on power stations. How much CO2 is produced during manufacture and construction, how much concrete is manufactured for construction? The Carbon Trust carried out a survey, they are inefficient!
TheNite98 6 months ago
@TheNite98 every construction of any power-plant produces CO2 !
at least this wind-plant does not during operation!
henry2071 5 months ago
@TheNite98 Wind Power will always be a part of the energy mix around the world, at the moment it's only around 2%,if the world put a price on pollution, like they should have done back the 1970's that energy mix could be very different today. Every country around the world is investing in wind power, to say that the power can't be stored is a bit like saying coal fired power is stored, both of these power sources usually feed back to a power grid (power lines, then to transformers, to home/work)
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this one is about 450ft tall the ones that duke energy wants to put around my house will be 500ft tall............... can't wait to see them!!!!!!!!!!!
farmsquidly 6 months ago
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farmsquidly 6 months ago
best windmill porn yet!
THATW3IRDKID 7 months ago 12
bad idea to show those next to the pyramids !! wind energy is great, but those turbines are really ugly !
pizzagorgonzola 7 months ago
I can verify most turbines pay themselves off in less than 2yrs. It's NOT 20 yrs. We did the cost/benefit analysis in an energy class, and the benefit is generally good and profitable as long as the wind turbines are in good wind zones of 14-18mph.
johnb300m 7 months ago
@johnb300m I also did veryfications in college, I grabbed my info not from sales people, but from manufacturers themselves, my class went into this with a blind eye, not knowing what we would find, but we all came to exactly the same numbers, we were all shocked. We went to visit some of the turbines in our area and talked to the people operating them, and our math was again verified. The lowest breakeven point I heard was 8-10 years, but that is from a salesman, which is prolly biased.
dmitriboukalov 7 months ago
@johnb300m Then why do they govt. subsiies to remain in operation? Bring this in for your next show and tell.
1 coal bed methane wellbore - not visible beyond 1/4 mile. Produces BTU equivilent of 10, 4MW (Largest) wind turbines, which are easily visible for 20 miles, have to be backed by hydrocarbon fueled generators for downtime, i.e., no wind, huge maintenance issues, and bird murdering. There is a reason ships don't have sails anymore. Wind Turbine=CMI Collosal Monument to Ignorance.
KMateri13 4 months ago
Wind also has a much higher environmental cost than coal or oil, so while there are some places that it might make sense, it's no where near what we need to replace carbon as fuel source.
chazzone 7 months ago
@sierracuban - 42% of Spain's energy compares to just a few percentages of American usage. It's like comparing a lawn mower to an F-1 machine.
If wind were
, then the US would be using more of it, and since I've been promoting appropriate tech for the last 30 years, I have a bit of an insight into the subject.
chazzone 7 months ago
what do we now do with the battery when the battery reaches it's end life cycle? Is the Earth stuck with it for a billion yrs?
quinnk01 7 months ago
For the price on this windfarm they coulda built a nuclear power plant with 1000 times the output, shame.
dmitriboukalov 7 months ago
@dmitriboukalov but it cost more adding up over the years to have a power plant
hesitantxxsight 7 months ago
@hesitantxxsight In a perfect world that would be the case, if turbnes didn't need maintnance. Maintaining these things is very expensive, especially if a wind farm is located at sea.
dmitriboukalov 7 months ago
@dmitriboukalov oooo ur right nvm
hesitantxxsight 7 months ago
@dmitriboukalov
Everything needs maintenance. The average turbine pays for itself in 18 months, from that point on its pure gravy.
rickcain2320 7 months ago
@rickcain2320 No my crazy friend, an average turbine pays for itself in 18-20 years, depending on size, model, etc. The life span of the generator, inverters is around 20 years, depending. So almost as soon as when you start making money off of it, you have to start replacing the generator, inverters, etc. That is why there is a huge contrevercy regarding these things, they rarely pay for themselves. If 18 months was the case everyone would switch over night.
dmitriboukalov 7 months ago
@dmitriboukalov you can repair millions of windmiles for the costs of rebuilding a single nuclear powerplant which is even more expansive than building it..
nagmashot 2 months ago
@nagmashot Agreed, and still with a total output of 1/100th of a nuclear power plant. In the meanwhile lets work on our Engrish.
dmitriboukalov 2 months ago
@dmitriboukalov
Nuclear plants are heavily subsidized by taxpayers, and private industry does not have to pay for waste removal and disposal. Its the ultimate corporate socialism.
rickcain2320 7 months ago
What a way to polute the beauty of a countryside.
raceman73200 7 months ago
A true tower of power.
ROCKSOLID19 7 months ago 11
2:17 onwards: Great comparison between famous buildings and the hight of the windmill. You can easily image the hight. Thx for the vid, wind energy is just awesome :)
Berkeloid 7 months ago
I feel sorry for those technicians who have to inspect the turbines up close while those turbines are spinning.
artman40 8 months ago
@artman40 Actually, I think they shut them down when they need to be inspected, but still at those heights, my non-existent fear of heights would be turned on high. (:
TheIntrinsic 8 months ago
I wonder if they impede the movement of the atmosphere, causing extreme weather.
ToddBoyle 8 months ago
I wonder what would happen if this turbine would be colored blue instead.
artman40 8 months ago
Strawman oil arguments make ZERO sense. Oil has NOTHING to do with producing electricity as a FUEL itself.
Whether we have all the electricity in the world or none at all does not matter at all to the fact that we WILL have to get off oil - for all our manufacturing material needs - one way or the other, as it dwindles. Better sooner. Better to make alternatives recovering hydrocarbons now from trash ASAP.
mphello 8 months ago
Let's NOT start a war between the pro-solar and pro-wind people regarding the triviality of aesthetics of solar panels vs turbines.
"How they look" is trivial compared to so many other concerns.
Want to save birds? Outlaw the needless breeding and factory farming of billions of innocent chickens and turkeys each year. A slow death of lifelong confinement in a factory farm is ALWAYS worse than a quick death flying into an object.
mphello 8 months ago
@acavideo I have been depressed and tired over human overpopulation my whole life (for the past 40+ years), but pick on coal, gas fracking, nuclear power first, NOT wind farms. (Nice big exclusion zones around Chernobyl, Fukushima - yeah - I know wildlife has thrived again around Chernobyl BECAUSE there are no humans there, but we could simply EXCLUDE people from an area WITHOUT radiating it first if we really wanted to.)
mphello 8 months ago
Wikipedia says 1.3% of the world electricity is currently supplied by wind power.
There is NOTHING logical - other than stupidity and selfish refusal to change from a society that produces unnecessary crap like "financial services" and hamburgers (meat = murder) to actual useful production - preventing building 70X the number of wind turbines we already have on earth. Wind turbines = JOBS!
mphello 8 months ago
Bullshit: "wind turbines make noise". Continued myth that the pro-coal pro-nuclear conservatards propagate, just like the global-warming-denying conservaturds. I've stood beside them. There is NO sound.
I live next to a waste treatment plant in a gate community. It was the reason our house remained unsold for years before we bought it. Totally unfounded idiotic fears. No smell and no sound and not unsightly.
Smell comes from the landfill 2 miles away.
mphello 8 months ago
Hey, shifter: if Denmark has to EXPORT electricity that it produces from wind energy, then that destroys the LIE and MYTH that all the anti-environmental pro-nuclear pro-coal people say that "wind power can't supply enough energy". And, if producing TOO much electricity is a problem caused by wind power, making the grid unstable, then nuclear is ten times WORSE, making an oversupply of electric power.
mphello 8 months ago
Am I doing the calculations wrong? The Roscoe farm provides 800MW from 400km^2. The size of the US is 10,000,000 km^2. Thus covering the whole of the US (assuming scalability) with these will result in 20,000 GW. The power consumption of the US is about 30 PWh (x10^15 Wh)... So does that mean if you cover all of the US with these things you'll get about .0001% of the US's power consumption??? Doesn't seem sustainable at all?
pnnorton 8 months ago
@pnnorton Ok figured out where I went wrong... embarassing.. the PWh is in a whole year. At best (assuming full capacity all year) you need about 4000 GW of electricity capacity. So only need to cover about a quarter of the united states. GEEZZ THATS STILL PRETTY BAD.
pnnorton 8 months ago
@pnnorton It is silly to asume that people would build only wind farms. Theres plenty of other clean sources of energy.
shogu666 8 months ago
@shogu666 What about building them offshore like they are doing in the UK, no land be used.
The US can get rid of some of those ugly, polluting oil rigs, and put some wind farms in their place.
Then they can build a nationwide electrified high speed train, BICYCLE and PRT network, all run off human,Tidal, wind and Concentrated solar thermal plants, also get everyone back into a job , no more unemployment benefits, as long as all construction and maintenance is carried out in the US! Solved!
trisk77 5 months ago
wow when i first saw this i culd not belive ma eyes
glitchbro61 8 months ago
THATS THE SAME HIGHT AS THE LONDON EYE!!!!!!!
Kittykool789 8 months ago
they dont go 270 mph and most new towers have climb assest or elevators
ethan55278 8 months ago
They dont go 270 mph, and most new towers have climb assest or elevators
ethan55278 8 months ago
Spain now gets 42% of its power from renewable energy.....Shame on U.S.
The United States should be kicking butt, but we are not.......
sierracuban 9 months ago 26
@sierracuban yeah, Spain has something good! We have no money to eat with this f**cking crisis but we got the 42% of this renewable power! haha
Keyzon 8 months ago
@Keyzon We'll if it wasn't for that 42% renewable you'll be paying out the butt for oil and coal to replace that energy and it would be 2x worse for you guys.. I suspect the first country to go full renewable will have a massive economic advantage.. it then can use that money for other purposes than spending on fuel which is suspect to speculation and disruption..
ddnguyen278 8 months ago
@ddnguyen278 Yaaap, you're totally right!! :)
Keyzon 8 months ago
@sierracuban We have better things to think about. Lets get out of all this debt or we will have no need for power.
GmTruckCarLove 7 months ago
@GmTruckCarLove REALLY ??? How do you propose we get out of debt ?? Any ideas ??
NO MATTER who we vote for, Republican or Democrat, it is always the SAME SHIT......I have followed every election since 1964 ( Johnson vs Goldwater ) And I wasn't even born in the United States.....How many elections have you been alive for ?? Sierra Cuban, Miami, La Florida, Estados Unidos de América
( God bless Philadelphia freedom....What a sad state of affairs....)
sierracuban 7 months ago
@sierracuban I'm not even talking about elections. I am just saying that the government has better things to put cash into. We need to pay China back or they will get pissed and kick our ass.
GmTruckCarLove 7 months ago
@sierracuban Thats because your entire economy is based on the black gold!
E13Greengategoon 7 months ago
@sierracuban The reason we are lacking is we have to many people whining and crying that they don't want them in their back yard. I would take this over burning coal, oil, and natural gas any day.
Blown98regal 6 months ago
@sierracuban
Yep. 75% of France's power grid is nuclear. shame on the US.
sylvan47070 6 months ago
@sierracuban That's because the u.s rather dig for coal and burn up oil to get it's energy
jessec71 5 months ago
@sierracuban
try 12%, actually.
wayfarin 5 months ago
@sierracuban they produce about 22 gigs from wind which is very substantial however its only 10%.
adolfarrakahane 4 months ago
@sierracuban you wouldn't want to live near one though...
kewlfonz 4 months ago
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@sierracuban you wouldn't want to live near one though...
kewlfonz 4 months ago
@sierracuban the us spend there money on weapons/war/army and black projects in places like area 51
islandboiitsi 4 months ago
We need MOREEE of these !!
VladKimakovsky 9 months ago
those tips of the windmills go about 270 miles an hour
AnArrogantFrog 9 months ago
Since Fukushima, I'd rather live near these windmills than a nuclear power station.
chuckbradley1 9 months ago
Imagine climbing up for the maintenance job lol, and then having to go back down
gchannelg 9 months ago
it would be cool to build one and live inside it....you would get free electric and dont have to pay rent lol
galatasaray710 9 months ago 29
@galatasaray710 You would go crazy from the infrasound.
venancefortunat 8 months ago
@galatasaray710 You would go crazy from the infrasonic vibrations.
venancefortunat 8 months ago
@galatasaray710 be sure you wont be able to sleep anymore! trust me even if it seems silent, day bay day the sound can be very annoying!
SaGruenwdt 8 months ago
@galatasaray710
Only if I had a hump and was allowed to ring the bell!
rickcain2320 7 months ago
@galatasaray710 LOL
bobbj77 5 months ago
@galatasaray710 It would beat living in a shoe.
SuperDickweed 4 months ago
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i want to hang on one of the rotor blades
HEADPLATZER 9 months ago
Vestas is gonna build bigger ones. offshore
RichnerDK 10 months ago
@RichnerDK amazing just buitifull
TheMtaTeam 9 months ago
this fricken thing looks scary
vgaboy 10 months ago
I love when ppl say how expensive wind and solar is, but rarely is anything said of the fact that we have built the infrastructure of an entire planet on a nonrenewable, source of energy. What of the cost that will be paid in human life when that source runs out?
bnewton81 10 months ago
@bnewton81 Finaly someone with a brain that realizes why we need wind farms
56058498 9 months ago
No, you don't control climate change. Climate change, if it even exists, is controlled by Mr. Sun.
TheHireTheBetter 10 months ago
We're going to need millions of these things.
ripcord1022 10 months ago
yeah one thosand seven hundred homes for that monstrosty isnt worh it, im just going to say one word nuclear
dunemoonbeam3 10 months ago
@dunemoonbeam3 one word japan!
samoantravv 10 months ago
@samoantravv i think its best to be rational when looking st these things, the real reason why i dont like wind and solar is because they are too expensive. I have no problem with people who like these sources of energy, as long as they dont complain about electricity charges. wind can cost about 3 times as much as nuclear.as is often more dependable. in new orleans the nuclear power plant helped the services operate after katrina.
dunemoonbeam3 10 months ago
@dunemoonbeam3 in japan the plant was built in the 60's and was not designed to take a earthquake. as the reactor core itself hast exploded and wont. it wont be comparable to Chernobyl
dunemoonbeam3 10 months ago
With slight modifications, it can deliver up to 7,5 MW.
22fret 10 months ago
What is the optimal RPM for this to get the maximum power out of it?
punchthedog 10 months ago
looksd like a lighthouse up close till u get to the top lol
CoolHeal20 10 months ago
very cool this video
pedroant13 10 months ago
Try again Boy King, Answer me this-Besides water , What is the most abundant liquid on the planet? Political solutions to anything result in Failure-In England they had a Heat wave & No wind (Typical) No power= No A/C ,lota old folks in distress or Dead. If you are the typical ideal for the future- Remember one thing- K.I.S.S. (Wind mills are a toy for the mindless)
hillberg100 10 months ago
Each tower should have 20 apartments. Everyone will want to live in a wind generator.
PatrikMacGoohan 10 months ago
100 of these running with 100% power output to match an oldish nuclear plant's output. Thanks but no thanks. Maintaining those all, a freaking 130 meter tall ugly monsters. No no no...
stynov83 10 months ago
@stynov83 Because a nasty nuclear power plant that took years to build and will ruin the landscape and health of the people and environment is just SO much better. I'll take the tower and some solar arrays any day.
Deposetheboyking 10 months ago
@Deposetheboyking
Watch this video.
watch?v=7nSB1SdVHqQ&feature=player_embedded
Still worshipping your wind power god?
the5thCount 10 months ago
@Deposetheboyking Astounding the stupidity and idiotic strawman arguments that the anti-solar anti-wind anti-conservation pro-nuclear pro-coal propagandists spew: "Wind power won't cure cancer! Wind power won't find missing children!" Just shove that crap back in their faces: every problem that nuclear power like Chernobyl and Fukushima and gas-fracking cause takes away time and energy to cure cancer and find missing children.
mphello 8 months ago
Impressive piece of machinery. Hopefully they can get the manufacturing costs down and start mass-producing them. We could sure use them here in the States.
Groundkisser 10 months ago 2
Compare the total installed cost per KW and how much land these turkeys take up against nuclear power and not until then do you realize how foolish wind turbine power as national solution. Wind turbines only run 30-40% of the time but cost 10X more than nuclear power. To expensive and to small as a real solution.
asuperglide 11 months ago
@asuperglide I'd rather one of these blow up than a Nuclear power station.
superjezz 11 months ago
@superjezz i just hope it blows up anyway, im sure theyre not desinged to withstand an earthquake
dunemoonbeam3 10 months ago
@asuperglide Ummm, except that in the U. S. we have LOTS of land. I've seen fields of these types of turbines in the midwest on long interstate drives. Plenty of space. So for those of you that love to attack anything that is not extraction "technology" for power, your bias is certainly showing. Wind will not do it all, but couple that with solar, geothermal, or many other options that are not fossil fuel derived and you have something that will work for many markets.
Deposetheboyking 10 months ago
Atomic power,? Hippy thinking killed it.Hydro electric.Green Greed hates it. Why do "renewables" get Government grants? COAL and LOTS OF COAL shipped to China and BURNED, and when you remove a wind farm what happens to the FRP ( Fibre reinforced plastics) Hazzardous WASTE....
hillberg100 11 months ago
@hillberg100
Neither the ROCs scheme nor FITs are government grants, as such. They're mechanisms to get the free market more renewables orientated. And yes, ultimately the cost is passed onto the consumer, ref my previous post. Governement grants are massive for nuclear power - which is not dead, unfortunately. The UK "Energy Review" in 2006 was designed to resurrect it - usual case of government's "Public Consultation" rubbish. .. and the point is to replace coal, oil, gas, isn't it?
leovideolog 11 months ago
@hillberg100 How do you like your job working for the extraction industries?
Deposetheboyking 10 months ago
The World's Largest Wind Turbine is located in Magdeburg-Rothensee in eastern Germany. Rated power: 7500 kW! (February 12, 2011)
tierfilmer 11 months ago
@tierfilmer,
i work at enercon in magdeburg/rothensee and i stood under the wind turbine directly, it is extreme huge!
ReneStahmann 3 weeks ago
How about the Birds and the Blited view and the noise? Yes wind turbines make noise. With Hydro you have a resurve of head pressure. In England during a heat wave power was needed, But they had No wind.......No power for A/C. Fish Breed in all sorts of water. animals on the shore can drink, Boats still float on the water. Ever try to fly through a wind farm? Mr Meddled If you don't want to use anything knock youself out-But when you use government to force your warped views on others? Fuck off !
hillberg100 11 months ago
@hillberg100
There's little capacity for hydro. Nice idea, but no banana. Why shouldn't this generation be responsible for producing the power its lifestyle consumes? If nuclear fusion is commercially viable in 30 years our windfarms can be removed, foundations and all, and return the environment to how it was. You'd prefer to regress the atmosphere @ 3 million years pa, or leave nuclear waste for 100,000 years. You abdicate responsibility for your lifestyle to your great grand children?
leovideolog 11 months ago
Wow. They're HUGE! How much did one of them cost? I think I saw these at Windturbines(dot)net last time. :)
thewindturbines 1 year ago
A magnificent machine for sure, but I'd rather have a nuclear power plant in _my_ backyard.
cuhlik 1 year ago
How much one of them things cost?
tjmady 1 year ago
Who has to live near it? It will produce adverse health effects from low frequency noise
libbywheatley 1 year ago
i think it's racist that all wind turbines are white
falafel2 1 year ago 2
@falafel2 i think its racist how naturaly black girls are never considered hot
dunemoonbeam3 10 months ago
UGLY ,WASTE, STUPID IDEA, HydroElectric, Power you can Drink & farm with. Wind farms? cant grow any thing and FRP for construction-That in itself is hazzardous waste.
hillberg100 1 year ago
what is the minimum wind speed required to make this work at, say, 30% of capacity?
ehvee1 1 year ago
@ehvee1
Google E126 Enercon power curve.
Robiemaan 1 year ago
Some banks of capacitors should help remove some of the dips in wind speed.lol
mcwolfus 1 year ago
We have a huge wind farm east of Cheyenne, WY, and many more turbines scattered throughout the area. The turbine parts are built in Northern Colorado and brought up to Cheyenne on trucks. Wind energy is a big deal here because southwestern Wyoming is always windy (and I mean always). Wyoming now produces thousands of megawatts of electricity that is used in several other states. Fossil fuels won't last forever. Wind is free, clean and will last forever. Do your own research. Think for yourself.
elektrobank55 1 year ago 2
@slammer489...just your name, and YOU're calling me dumb ass? Oh my...You idiot, I never said to "replace" farm land with wind mills...I said, just like what they do in France by the way, to place windmills in the middle of farm land, both WORKING TOGETHER. We're surely not going to deforest to put wind mills...Yes of course we need the food AND we need the trees. Me tree hugger, but not stupid...! Me not some kind of red neck imbecile retarded aggressive neanderthal like your kind...Cheers
christopherbeau 1 year ago
@WATBerlin c02 is great for plants. c02 is not bad.
sh4p3shifter 1 year ago
There are many problems with wind energy, one of them being they don't work all the time and in Denmarks case they have to export all of their energy because the turbines make the grid very unstable. waste of tax payers money.
sh4p3shifter 1 year ago
@sh4p3shifter this is a technology problem, enercon turbines stabilized the german grid, and enercon is the best company of windpower technology, but other companies have defizit of 5 or more years.... sry for my english
Frackerl 1 year ago
i bet i could make a hell of an smoothie with that!
cowsrock94 1 year ago
Absolutely incredib