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Thank you very much for your video! I live in Northern Illinois USA (just west of Chicago) and we have hundreds of these wind turbines around my town. Oddly, I always seem to miss them being assembled, so your video is excellent!
I believe a Vestas v82 is 1.65 megawatts but I am sure they have updated this spec to more by now.
As to how long building one of these takes. The erection shown in this video can be done in less than two days under ideal conditions. BUT! It takes a long time to test for and select a good site. It requires at least four weeks to engineer and pour the large and complex base. And it took four weeks for this one to get wired properly to the grid, etc. YMMV
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Yes it does. It is a Norwegian folk dance for stone workers. Yes, I know there s no stone work in erecting a wind turbine but St. Olaf College owns its own limestone quarry so that any new buildings will be surfaced with same stone as the others on campus. We forget that the ability to work stone was very common among the Norwegian immigrants--so it is not SO surprising that a school founded by them would treat stone so seriously.
Not a bad guess, actually. This wind turbine was erected at a Norwegian-Lutheran college with a world-class choral department. Just before the it was put up, the school's Lutheran Chaplain gave a sermon describing how this wind turbine was part of the college's commitment to moral virtue. So the choral music is by the St. Olaf Choir and the rest is as Norwegian as I could find (even though the turbine is Danish.)
its nice to meet people who actually think wind turbines are kewl i work at a factory in the united states were we build turbines they are very inpressize machines and the bird problem is actually solved with many deterants that are designed for that i would say more but it is conflict of interst for me lol
Interesting video. Many consumers are gradually accepting renewable energy sources such as the wind to do their bit for the environment. Building a wind turbine at home is a good step in this direction. Transformer company, Pacific Crest Transformers offers various products and solutions to the wind energy sector.
hes wearing one no construction company would let an employee go up with out one not to mention OSHA would be all over them with well over 30,000 U.S dollars in fines so discomfort or 500K in fines your employers gonna tell you tough shit and toss you a harness
Some dumbass ecoterrorist group wants to either outlaw or sabotage these windmills because some 'endangered' bat species keeps flying into the blades. Sure. Right. They can just go carpool in their gas-guzzling BMW SUVs to the next Al Gore propaganda lecture, those hypocrites.
if there was a major threat to the bat it wouldnt be up. im a northfield native going to school for my A.A.S in wind energy so if any one has any questions feel free to contact me i would love to inform northfield about the power, benefits, and information on wind energy
@SenorSpode I read that the Bats miss the blades easily enough but there is a low pressure region behind the blade that they fly into and it causes their insides to rupture and they bleed out internally due to the rapid pressure drop.
Bugger of a way to die. Maybe they need to put a high frequency wind whistle on the ends of the blades to scare them away like the "Roo Shoo" product in Australia
@curingaging00 Indeed. The message that most environmentalists emit is that they wanted this technology then, but not now; this implies that they do not think their decisions, rhetoric or fervor through, so they are no better than the rest of us they demonize. The other message they send is that they want fuel and energy just as much as we do, but there's no perfect source, so might as well have none of it. What self-defeating ideology. So much for reason and logic.
@curingaging00 Indeed. The message that most environmentalists emit is that they wanted this technology then, but not now; this implies that they do not think their decisions, rhetoric or fervor through, so they are no better than the rest of us they demonize. The other message they send is that they want fuel and energy just as much as we do, but there's no perfect source, so might as well have none of it. What self-defeating ideology. So much for reason and logic.
@curingaging00@curingaging00 Indeed. The message that most environmentalists emit is that they wanted this technology then, but not now; this implies that they don't think their decisions, rhetoric or fervor through, so they are no better than the rest of us they demonize. The other message they send is that they want fuel and energy just as much as we do, but there's no perfect source, so might as well have none of it. What self-defeating ideology. So much for reason and logic.
Thanks for this. Wind energy has great potential and the United States needs to tap this available resource in the right manner. Although at present only 2% of the wind energy is used for the production of electricity, it is targeted to reach 20% in the future. Pacific Crest Transformers offers energy efficient transformers for the wind energy sector.
Good video there! Wind turbines are critical for the generation of electricity. There are many steps to be kept in mind while installing one. Pacific Crest Transformers has good information on wind energy and in particular the role of wind turbines. It has many whitepapers and articles related to wind energy and its role in the U.S. economy.
i remember me and my dad went right up to this turbine on the way to go dirtbiking, its so sweet lol have to say kind of hard to get in to there and find it
absolutely amazing, that dude that was half leaning off the top bit wen they put the blades on it must have had some balls, ya wouldnt catch me up there
Good Lord, what a rotor propeller! It's just amazing at the size of some of these wind turbines. I saw the Wind Farm in Atlantic City, New Jersey just last week and they are very similar to this turbine.
I find these fascinating and am always trying to learn more about these. This is a wonderful video and thank you for sharing.
Scary that's Swedish folk music in the middle of the video, but Minnesota is one of the places where Scandinavians settled in the states. Still weird!
Actually, the music--all of it except for the old hymn sung by the St. Olaf choir--is Norwegian. Ole Bull and Grieg. The folk tune is a reel in honor of the stone breakers that helped build the North and St. Olaf. Interestingly, St. Olaf is possibly the only college in USA that owns it's own limestone quarry. Since the wind turbine itself is a product of Nordic engineering, I thought this appropriate.
Excellent video! Heard St Olaf choir and string musicians live at Wheaton College two or three years ago. This is great music AND promoting the new american dream. :0D
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the millwrights and ironworker crew would go mid-top-nacell-rotor in like 3 hrs max. the base takes the most time for us anyway. 4 a day in sault ste. marie. 80m/1.5 GE x 126
No, I do not have pictures of the site preparation. You are correct in thinking this is important, In truth, I did not know how difficult it was to get the foundation right until I attended a lecture about a year after this was completed. I hope to have the opportunity to make such a video soon.
You must ask Vestas. I am certain they have done extensive studies into the matter. It is a tradeoff between manufacturing costs and efficiency. I don't know the reasons but I'll bet they are VERY sound.
Cost effectiveness is the answer. When you break down the cost of the additional blades, equipment required to make that happen, and the possible increase in amount of downtime vs the efficiency improvement, 3 blades comes out to be the ideal answer.
I imagine that the weight is an important factor, and also the drag that the wind creates against the blades which pulls laterally on the tall/narrow tower (want to keep that as low as possible)
Also, there's already a problem with the turbines spinning too fast and the force at the ends of the blades causing the blades to rip apart from sheer rotational speed. So they have brakes that actually slow the blades down. Plus, they don't want the generator at the top to overheat by spinning too fast
All of this is (almost) true. The operational rotation of this turbine is 14.4 rpm. The tip speed on the blades must NEVER exceed the speed of sound for all sorts of reasons.
Of course, none of this has anything to do with the choices of blade number.
I think there's also the pressure on the tower. With more blades they would have to make it less high or much heavier. At a certain altitude there's a constant of wind. So more blades cost more.. if it go's to fast the turbine becomes an icecream.
construction crews can erect a turbine in as little as 3 weeks, from the construction and pouring of the foundation to final assembly. another week for mechanical and electrical walk down called commissioning. the longest wait time is the setting of the concrete in the foundation, 35+ trucks
Thanks, I'm from Holland and spoken to Enercon, they needed to know the place 6 months before they start producing 2 MW turbines. I heard they also can build 5 MW turbines, so I asked Vestas what they cost.. but they still did not answered.
Enercon is around 800 thousand euro.
That's excl. the costs of building a road and construction place.
You Americans are all in deep shit, plus there is no costs for export on electricity. So I'm considering oversea.
The more blades you put on the lower the wind speed needs to be to start it but it will spin at a lower rpm than 3 blades can. Much like 2 blades spin faster than 3 but take greater wind speed to start up. And 6 blades that large would be to heavy and create far to much rotational force to be cost effective.
Good point. I HAVE seen these things put up in windy locations but somehow, the wind stopped blowing at critical times. So I asked the crane operator. He claimed that he had waited as long as 12 days for some critical lifts.
There are two VERY important parts of this project not caught on tape.
1) Site preparation. Not only does it require a lot of planning and testing to determine a good wind site, but a very stable and straight foundation must be laid. 6 weeks to 2 years
2) Hookup to the grid. three weeks
The part that was videotaped took 5 days because it was the first wind turbine erected by Boldt Construction. With good weather and doing many erection on the same site, this could be reduced to 1.5-2 days
Amazing video! I am looking to build my first home windmill. I'll study the building process in depth. Then, I will consider commercial wind generated energy distribution.
I'm building my own wind turbine and need to know more about what type of alternator to use. Baring in mind that I'm a student and poor, so if possible could you recommend a cheap alternator.
If you really are a poor student who wants to build windmills, you might want to skip the build-it-yourself stage. What you will discover is that building a wind turbine that works is a LOT harder than it looks.
What you should do is look at a well-run company like Vestas. Find out what kinds of workers they want to hire and change your major to match. Being an expert in wind technology has a bright future. But if you don't know what a solenoid does, you aren't ready for it.
The size of a good wind turbine is not arbitrary. The wind doesn't get clean and reliable until about 100' (30 meters) into the air. The size of the blades is determined by how much energy it requires to run the generator. Blades are about 40 meters long (131 ') so the mast must be about 70 meters (230') high. So this is not about big vs little. There is a optimum size--which is why most good wind turbines are about the same physical size (between 2 and 5 megawatts.)
well the cost of them is. what is the ecnomically feasible size (which one will kill less of the avian species) which cost less to erect to maintain etc. so yess there is a better size. you have to take all the variables into effect. keeping in mind that you also whant people to be able to work on them inherintly putting more people in share of the power structure, & creating need for schools & workers to spread the economic power.
Well, the primary goal is to capture the energy of the wind. Those other goals may be wonderful, but if the wind turbines such thinking produces don't work very well, all those other goals fail too.
As for these turbines killing birds--that lie has been discredited LONG ago. (In fact, the big turbines are MUCH less dangerous to birds because they turn so slowly.) I am sorry you still believe it.
If you think that little wind turbines are better--please build one that actually works.
but they do kill avion species but that aspect it factored into consideration of where to put the turbine if endangered birds are at risk you will not get the ok same with all wild life
i visited a wind farm cell phone in hand with camera, sorry no dead wildlife to photograph, in fact it was not even noisy.
maby the dead ones had rotted months ago? or as i suspect the thirty mile hour winds and high altitude are not natural enviornments for birds to be flying in. not very energy cost effective for the bird species i suspect.. i just cant wait for your response but your not going to get a response.
eltechno, this was more than an "elegant technology" video, it was downright majestic! The shots (and editing) may have lied about the time it took to put the turbine up, but the editing--and ending the "day" in that golden prairie light--were beautiful. The primo music/iconic images of men at work didn't hurt, either!
Thank you for those kind words. On that last day, real work didn't get started until around noon because of all the inspection and repair due to a giant hailstorm. But it was Friday and folks wanted to make up for the delay. So they labored until after dark. MY favorite clip comes at the end where a very large and powerful man is carrying the "sock" used to keep the lower turbine blade from dragging on the ground. He is still moving but obviously VERY tired. It was a LONG day.
I agree-he's exhausted. Two questions: are those blades actually flexing a little, or is that an optical illusion? And how much does one of these behemoths COST?? I suppose that's relative to local energy prices, but I'm curious.
The blade do flex a bit. That is why the nacelle has a nose-up attitude. But mostly it is optics fooling us.
This Vestas v82 cost about $2 million when it was erected. This includes the parts of the construction I captured on video plus the foundation (a BIG project) and the hook-up to the grid. To give you an idea of why everyone now wants to build wind turbines, this Vestas saved St. Olaf College over $300,000 the first year.
I was amazed as to the scale of the turbine. It's huge!
I just have a question, seems $2,000,000.00 is not a lot for a project of this size, but are you sure that it actually saved the school $300,000.00 the first year? If that's the case, then this is a gold mine.
Also, in comparison, what is the ratio of homes powered by this one turbine (if you know) I'm very interested in this due to the potential of property I have in California that's been preposed for such use. I thank you.
That $2 million is an old figure, remember--ask your local Vestas dealer for more current info.
The St. Olaf figures come straight from the head of plant services at the school. The school had built their own power plant in the 1930s and had installed a 440v 3-phase loop they could now hook into their windmill. So St. Olaf never sells its power--they substitute it for power they would otherwise buy. And that's where they get their figures.
I see the giant wind turbine motors and blades go throw appleton,wisconsin every wed. A whole train full of them. One blade take up a train car and a half. It's pretty amazing how big these things are. I don't know why but they are awe inspiring just to watch something that big move.
I see trucks carrying turbine blades and other wind turbine parts almost every time I travel around Houston on I-10 or I-290. All are headed west or northwest. Quite a few are being installed in the State of Texas.
This took five days. The Boldt Construction guys had never erected a wind turbine before and were being VERY cautious. And then there was the weather--a major hailstorm during construction dropped baseball-sized hail doing extensive damage to every vehicle in the area including the crane. Sorry if the video suggests this all happened in one day.
Is the fiddeling music some Swedish/Scandinavian folk music? Sound like that, and your surname - Larson - sure is a typical Swedish name. Nice to be able to watch this structure get built up.
Yes my ancestors are 7/8 Swedish. But the music is all Norwegian or by the St. Olaf Choir because the school was founded by Norwegian immigrants in the 19th century.
ok, Norwegian and Swedish folk music (neighbour countrys, almost the same language and culture) are in many ways very similar, so that's an answer that confirms my thought. Keep it up!
these turbines are immense, i work for vestas blades uk producing the wood/carbon blades for the v82, seeing and working on the blades everyday you forget just how big they are....but this video has put it back into persective...
They assemble just like the new floor lamp I bought, screw it together, and put in the light! On a more serious note, here in Wisconsin (USA), they've recently installed about 30-40 vestas turbines on the way to somewhere by fond du lac I think, and then there's another 40 or so to the east of that bunch, the whole projects have been completed in as little as 3-4 months.
Just to correct some misinformation. There were 86 wind turbines erected from October 07 to March of 08, in Brownsville, Wisconsin. The 1st one was errected in October and took 16 hours to finish. The last 2 were done in one day.
Looked it up. Horizon operates wind farms. They do NOT, so far as I can tell, manufacture any equipment. M. Hansen and I are talking about folks who make the equipment.
Yea Horizon wind is a windturbine operator, they are owned by a large spanish grid company.. GE is the only american company on the market and many of their subsuppliers are sadly european
Texas is NOT the leader in wind turbine technology. Denmark is. Vestas Wind Systems hold 23% of the market. In second place is Spain with Gamesa taking 12%. Germany (Siemens) is probably third. PERIOD!
and thats just vestas the other danish companies siemens wind power, the world largest blade producer LM glasfiber and the offshore wind park producer A2SEA will soon start production on american soil.. with thousands of US jobs to come
hi.. im telling u that this product is gonna get the american economy back on it´s feet.. the ceo. of vestas recently said in a press conference in denmark that he expected more than 100.000 employes in 2015 (low estimate) they have 18.000 now.. many of them will off course be american because of the huge market.. this is only the beginning to a HUGE industry
I am HAPPY that the Danes are coming with their good jobs. The more wind turbines we build, the better the economy.
However, I am just slightly annoyed that we couldn't have done this ourselves. After all, USA is a country that once went to the moon just to show off our industrial capabilities.
Yea I see what you mean but this tecnology is not fully developed and we need the bright minds of america to further develope this fantastic machine. Vestas is opening a R&D facility next year in Houston and will create 500 US engineering jobs.
U´re right bad priorities from US politicians in the 80´s and 90´s and now GE is lacking 10 years behind don´t know if they can catch up, it´s gonna take alot of money and hard work. the largest they have is sadly an obsolete vestas 1.5 MW
Not just the politicians--also the guys who ran the big companies. The head of GE was called "Neutron Jack" Welch because he destroyed the company and left the buildings standing. The company he left behind is in poor position to compete with a Vestas because 1) Wind turbines are harder to build than they look, and 2) Nordic engineers are some of the best in the world.
I don´t know if our engineers are better.. but u´re right they look simple but are as advanced as aeroplanes and takes at least 10 years to develope. I think it will be like in the airplane industri, with alot of companies capable of producing smaller turbines up to 1.5 MW but only 2 or 3 that can build the mega turbines.. i don´t think we will see them much larger than 4 MW on a larger scale simply because it´s cheaper to build 2 2MW´s instead of one 4 MW
Vestas is currently putting all their money on the 1.65 MW , the 2 MW and the 3 MW and more or less stop production of anything smaller than that except China.. GE lost a lot of precius development time during the Enron period, and i don´t know if it´s to late they definetly need to gain or perhaps buy some knowhow perhaps the german/danish Nordex company? or perhaps Enercon
Nice video. Its the future. The one think I like about your site more then most is that you remove any reply that uses bad language. I have only seen these from 2 or more miles away. Joe in Florida
These turbines are definately not obsolete, lm glasfiber is the worlds largest in making fiberglass blades and for those blades to work they need these turbines
I SERIOUSLY doubt that a vertical-mounted turbine will make anything obsolete. There are good sound reasons why all the serious wind turbine manufacturers use a three-bladed rotor. Let me know when someone has actually built a 2 mw vertical wind turbine that works--THEN we will have a discussion.
i like you eltechno haha i agree 100 % with vertical axis wind turbines or VAWTS there are to many draw backs and design flaws on paper there are a good concept but in actuality not so much interesting fact there are about 10 different companies that produce wind turbines each with about 10 models not one a vawt another fact there is NO commercially produced vawt EVER and for good reasons
Ya they just built like 9 of those up here on the laurention divide. They be pretty sweet, but i think they like quit on them cause they havent been to work in like 2 weeks... What that all about
Amazing o:
aprillovett2 1 month ago
On to the next one....
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indibry 8 months ago
very good video beautiful music well shoot
graham640 8 months ago
Thank you very much for your video! I live in Northern Illinois USA (just west of Chicago) and we have hundreds of these wind turbines around my town. Oddly, I always seem to miss them being assembled, so your video is excellent!
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CarlVanDoren 8 months ago
How many megawatts is this turbine? And how long does it take to build one?
33ahall 9 months ago
@33ahall
I believe a Vestas v82 is 1.65 megawatts but I am sure they have updated this spec to more by now.
As to how long building one of these takes. The erection shown in this video can be done in less than two days under ideal conditions. BUT! It takes a long time to test for and select a good site. It requires at least four weeks to engineer and pour the large and complex base. And it took four weeks for this one to get wired properly to the grid, etc. YMMV
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I think Intel in its Appup store has an application called aPhotoaDay that allows creating such videos with a soundtrack added. awesome.
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Wieliczka2010 9 months ago
nice video, do you know how do they align the sections to put the bolts into the holes?
juan3l3 11 months ago
truly nice
fastlane59 1 year ago
They look like monsters.
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WindPowerKits 1 year ago
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prop23FAIL 1 year ago
A great video with beautiful vocal accompaniment.
10/10
ozzirt 1 year ago
interesting video, i like it
Brammo94 1 year ago
We bring those towers accross on the Badger, it's hard to see how huge they are unless your standing right next to one
hbre78a 1 year ago
Pwer Wind fìgroup made very beautiful Turbine no Vesta!!!!
flybruno93 1 year ago
Thanks for the nice music. Normally videos like this would have hideous rock drums and loud guitars.
zeekwolfe 1 year ago
Hey! That second tune has a norwegian fiddle in it! :D
Thymonico 1 year ago 3
Yes it does. It is a Norwegian folk dance for stone workers. Yes, I know there s no stone work in erecting a wind turbine but St. Olaf College owns its own limestone quarry so that any new buildings will be surfaced with same stone as the others on campus. We forget that the ability to work stone was very common among the Norwegian immigrants--so it is not SO surprising that a school founded by them would treat stone so seriously.
eltechno 1 year ago
how much will be that
gameprohalo 1 year ago
What is this music? It make me feel like I'm watching a church service for the god of wind. lol
FarOutFarSpace 1 year ago 10
Not a bad guess, actually. This wind turbine was erected at a Norwegian-Lutheran college with a world-class choral department. Just before the it was put up, the school's Lutheran Chaplain gave a sermon describing how this wind turbine was part of the college's commitment to moral virtue. So the choral music is by the St. Olaf Choir and the rest is as Norwegian as I could find (even though the turbine is Danish.)
eltechno 1 year ago
its nice to meet people who actually think wind turbines are kewl i work at a factory in the united states were we build turbines they are very inpressize machines and the bird problem is actually solved with many deterants that are designed for that i would say more but it is conflict of interst for me lol
bigshugdorman 1 year ago
Mmmm... Danish.
Purloise38 1 year ago
Interesting video. Many consumers are gradually accepting renewable energy sources such as the wind to do their bit for the environment. Building a wind turbine at home is a good step in this direction. Transformer company, Pacific Crest Transformers offers various products and solutions to the wind energy sector.
pacificcresttrans 1 year ago
where was that guys harnass calling in that tower!!!lol
airforcecraig3793 2 years ago
hes wearing one no construction company would let an employee go up with out one not to mention OSHA would be all over them with well over 30,000 U.S dollars in fines so discomfort or 500K in fines your employers gonna tell you tough shit and toss you a harness
windsmith2010 1 year ago
-agree w/ S.Spode it really is that simple! let them freeze to death in the dark
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BigAl1048 2 years ago
vawt > hawt
leakedfromtv 2 years ago
Some dumbass ecoterrorist group wants to either outlaw or sabotage these windmills because some 'endangered' bat species keeps flying into the blades. Sure. Right. They can just go carpool in their gas-guzzling BMW SUVs to the next Al Gore propaganda lecture, those hypocrites.
SenorSpode 2 years ago 13
@SenorSpode do bats fly at that altitude, i think not
datzfast 2 years ago
Try telling those moron eco-freaks that...in America, there's two things that are cataclysmically dangerous when combined: rhetoric and media.
SenorSpode 2 years ago
if there was a major threat to the bat it wouldnt be up. im a northfield native going to school for my A.A.S in wind energy so if any one has any questions feel free to contact me i would love to inform northfield about the power, benefits, and information on wind energy
windsmith2010 1 year ago
@SenorSpode I read that the Bats miss the blades easily enough but there is a low pressure region behind the blade that they fly into and it causes their insides to rupture and they bleed out internally due to the rapid pressure drop.
Bugger of a way to die. Maybe they need to put a high frequency wind whistle on the ends of the blades to scare them away like the "Roo Shoo" product in Australia
baccus61 1 year ago
@SenorSpode very well said.
Wind isn't perfect but its still much better then coal oil and natural gas eco-wise.
People focus way too much on the side effects of wind energy. There is no form of energy that is "perfect".
Air pollution kills many more 'endangered' species aswell.
curingaging00 4 months ago
@curingaging00 Indeed. The message that most environmentalists emit is that they wanted this technology then, but not now; this implies that they do not think their decisions, rhetoric or fervor through, so they are no better than the rest of us they demonize. The other message they send is that they want fuel and energy just as much as we do, but there's no perfect source, so might as well have none of it. What self-defeating ideology. So much for reason and logic.
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@curingaging00 Indeed. The message that most environmentalists emit is that they wanted this technology then, but not now; this implies that they do not think their decisions, rhetoric or fervor through, so they are no better than the rest of us they demonize. The other message they send is that they want fuel and energy just as much as we do, but there's no perfect source, so might as well have none of it. What self-defeating ideology. So much for reason and logic.
SenorSpode 4 months ago
@curingaging00 @curingaging00 Indeed. The message that most environmentalists emit is that they wanted this technology then, but not now; this implies that they don't think their decisions, rhetoric or fervor through, so they are no better than the rest of us they demonize. The other message they send is that they want fuel and energy just as much as we do, but there's no perfect source, so might as well have none of it. What self-defeating ideology. So much for reason and logic.
SenorSpode 4 months ago
Thanks for this. Wind energy has great potential and the United States needs to tap this available resource in the right manner. Although at present only 2% of the wind energy is used for the production of electricity, it is targeted to reach 20% in the future. Pacific Crest Transformers offers energy efficient transformers for the wind energy sector.
pacificcresttrans 2 years ago
I love the music too
Azoicum 2 years ago
Good video there! Wind turbines are critical for the generation of electricity. There are many steps to be kept in mind while installing one. Pacific Crest Transformers has good information on wind energy and in particular the role of wind turbines. It has many whitepapers and articles related to wind energy and its role in the U.S. economy.
pacificcresttrans 2 years ago
Wooooooooooooooooooow
arctictothpast1 2 years ago
I really believe in the renewable resource stream and hope that more people and companies jump on the wagon and leave oil and coal behind.
mike99944 2 years ago
there already are
arctictothpast1 2 years ago
i remember me and my dad went right up to this turbine on the way to go dirtbiking, its so sweet lol have to say kind of hard to get in to there and find it
jaguars004 2 years ago
Excellent crane work, got yourself an awesome team there!
PsychoticusRex 2 years ago
all in a days work my friend.
cassandraruth 2 years ago
absolutely amazing, that dude that was half leaning off the top bit wen they put the blades on it must have had some balls, ya wouldnt catch me up there
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abmod01 2 years ago
Good Lord, what a rotor propeller! It's just amazing at the size of some of these wind turbines. I saw the Wind Farm in Atlantic City, New Jersey just last week and they are very similar to this turbine.
I find these fascinating and am always trying to learn more about these. This is a wonderful video and thank you for sharing.
Ecm51 2 years ago
Superb!
Kntryhart 2 years ago
Great Vid.
Did you see the numbers on the blades as most of the 40m ones for the V82 came from the Isle of Wight (England).
But alas not much longer, the Blades are now produced in America and Vestas Blades UK is being shut down, we moulded the last one yesterday.
TenormanDoowop 2 years ago
Great video! I'd love to stack one of these turbines. Again, nice camera work!
ElectrasolAdvanced 2 years ago
which turbine is that turbines
quisum 2 years ago
A Vestas v82.
eltechno 2 years ago
Scary that's Swedish folk music in the middle of the video, but Minnesota is one of the places where Scandinavians settled in the states. Still weird!
Jabulon666 2 years ago
Actually, the music--all of it except for the old hymn sung by the St. Olaf choir--is Norwegian. Ole Bull and Grieg. The folk tune is a reel in honor of the stone breakers that helped build the North and St. Olaf. Interestingly, St. Olaf is possibly the only college in USA that owns it's own limestone quarry. Since the wind turbine itself is a product of Nordic engineering, I thought this appropriate.
eltechno 2 years ago
does anyone the capacity of the crane in action =?
vincyballer1 2 years ago
The crane is question is a Manitowoc 2250 with a capacity of 300 tons.
epistte 2 years ago
The crane must be sized to life the generator / nacelle--which is always the heaviest part.
eltechno 2 years ago
Thank you, inspiring (from someone who builds them.)
cheelio01 2 years ago
Vestas! Best wind turbines in the world!
thormj 2 years ago
Amazing!!
mvlty 2 years ago
Good Lord.......That thing is HUGE....
ssargman 2 years ago
Excellent video! Heard St Olaf choir and string musicians live at Wheaton College two or three years ago. This is great music AND promoting the new american dream. :0D
jazz61021 2 years ago
Amazing! Thanks for sharing this video.
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ogami3D 2 years ago
* * * * * STARS HQ movie !
zebramol 2 years ago
that could take 7 years to take lol!
: D
jackfwoodward 2 years ago
imagine getting your hand like crushed underneath a section of it as the crane lowered it down
infernodood3 2 years ago
thank you for the show, now i know what to expect when the work comes my way....
highrateleft 2 years ago
true but to assemble it only takes like twelve hours base mid top nacell then the hub and blades
hustleandsnow 2 years ago
the millwrights and ironworker crew would go mid-top-nacell-rotor in like 3 hrs max. the base takes the most time for us anyway. 4 a day in sault ste. marie. 80m/1.5 GE x 126
motoxxx4u 2 years ago
How long does the contruction take? This seemed like it was a day but wasn't sure? Thanks
trevMac4 2 years ago
im an ironworker and i have built them it take about 12 hours to a whole windmill
hustleandsnow 2 years ago
Maybe 12 hours to hang and assemble the main components but much longer to commission.
BigPimpinAssCurt 2 years ago
nice music. i think its amazing how they could make this .
xoohellolovely 2 years ago
very awesome. :D
YULitle 2 years ago
great job and great video-- thank you :)
1740274 2 years ago
Outstanding video! Very difficult to find videos like this, probably the only such one on the entire YouTube.
It would be 100% is the site development is also included. Do you have such a video?
RehmanAbubakr 2 years ago
Thank you for the kind words!
No, I do not have pictures of the site preparation. You are correct in thinking this is important, In truth, I did not know how difficult it was to get the foundation right until I attended a lecture about a year after this was completed. I hope to have the opportunity to make such a video soon.
eltechno 2 years ago
:) You're welcome.
Hoping to see more of your videos. Good luck. Tc.
RehmanAbubakr 2 years ago
I glad my hometown getting world biggest wing turbine plant from vestas, and nation biggest solar field!
Pueblo Colorado
jbb3design 2 years ago
Attracting a great employer during THIS economy is quite an accomplishment. Congrats Pueblo!
eltechno 2 years ago
love the music perfect
JATC520 2 years ago
fuck all that technical shit, this has always facinated me though, cant believe the fucking size of em
BillyArnoldFunSite 2 years ago
çok güzel tebrikler. Very good , thank you
urfahatbakim 3 years ago
Why are there only three blades? wouldn't more blades say, 4 or 5 catch more wind and revover more power?
ManuelBetten 3 years ago
You must ask Vestas. I am certain they have done extensive studies into the matter. It is a tradeoff between manufacturing costs and efficiency. I don't know the reasons but I'll bet they are VERY sound.
eltechno 3 years ago
Cost effectiveness is the answer. When you break down the cost of the additional blades, equipment required to make that happen, and the possible increase in amount of downtime vs the efficiency improvement, 3 blades comes out to be the ideal answer.
dangerdeej 3 years ago
I imagine that the weight is an important factor, and also the drag that the wind creates against the blades which pulls laterally on the tall/narrow tower (want to keep that as low as possible)
Also, there's already a problem with the turbines spinning too fast and the force at the ends of the blades causing the blades to rip apart from sheer rotational speed. So they have brakes that actually slow the blades down. Plus, they don't want the generator at the top to overheat by spinning too fast
chaz76vette 3 years ago
All of this is (almost) true. The operational rotation of this turbine is 14.4 rpm. The tip speed on the blades must NEVER exceed the speed of sound for all sorts of reasons.
Of course, none of this has anything to do with the choices of blade number.
eltechno 3 years ago
I think there's also the pressure on the tower. With more blades they would have to make it less high or much heavier. At a certain altitude there's a constant of wind. So more blades cost more.. if it go's to fast the turbine becomes an icecream.
How many day's did it take to place that turbine?
Brulluhman 2 years ago
construction crews can erect a turbine in as little as 3 weeks, from the construction and pouring of the foundation to final assembly. another week for mechanical and electrical walk down called commissioning. the longest wait time is the setting of the concrete in the foundation, 35+ trucks
darkpheonix262 2 years ago
Thanks, I'm from Holland and spoken to Enercon, they needed to know the place 6 months before they start producing 2 MW turbines. I heard they also can build 5 MW turbines, so I asked Vestas what they cost.. but they still did not answered.
Enercon is around 800 thousand euro.
That's excl. the costs of building a road and construction place.
You Americans are all in deep shit, plus there is no costs for export on electricity. So I'm considering oversea.
Brulluhman 2 years ago
yeah honestly like rims! im' sure they tested it out like that and so on. more blades means more money and its will be more heavy.
LuxuriousLuxembourg 3 years ago
The more blades you put on the lower the wind speed needs to be to start it but it will spin at a lower rpm than 3 blades can. Much like 2 blades spin faster than 3 but take greater wind speed to start up. And 6 blades that large would be to heavy and create far to much rotational force to be cost effective.
smkuhner 3 years ago
plus with blades that big, and through the use of pitch control, you only need enough blades to get the thing turning anyway...
GrizzlTooth 2 years ago
more more more
build more
highferret 3 years ago
Incredible footage, and great editing!
Do they assemble the propellers on site? Because wouldn't they be too wide to transport?
angrychinesedriver 3 years ago 2
Yes they do. And no, that part was not included in the video--I forget why.
eltechno 3 years ago
WHAT ABOUT THE NOISE ..?
Reqrezentin 3 years ago
The v82 is very quiet. It is almost impossible to hear unless you are within 100 meters.
eltechno 3 years ago
I wouldnt like it if I had to set up one of those buggers in a windy location! Wait isnt that the point?
ChrisPCrunchy 3 years ago
Good point. I HAVE seen these things put up in windy locations but somehow, the wind stopped blowing at critical times. So I asked the crane operator. He claimed that he had waited as long as 12 days for some critical lifts.
eltechno 3 years ago
how long does it take to set up wind turbines i need to know for a project?
sciencenerdzz22444 3 years ago
There are two VERY important parts of this project not caught on tape.
1) Site preparation. Not only does it require a lot of planning and testing to determine a good wind site, but a very stable and straight foundation must be laid. 6 weeks to 2 years
2) Hookup to the grid. three weeks
The part that was videotaped took 5 days because it was the first wind turbine erected by Boldt Construction. With good weather and doing many erection on the same site, this could be reduced to 1.5-2 days
eltechno 3 years ago
yes,its cool...
arcashas 3 years ago
very cool
TimTSR 3 years ago
Amazing video! I am looking to build my first home windmill. I'll study the building process in depth. Then, I will consider commercial wind generated energy distribution.
neoithan 3 years ago
Hi,
I'm building my own wind turbine and need to know more about what type of alternator to use. Baring in mind that I'm a student and poor, so if possible could you recommend a cheap alternator.
Would a solenoid work to generate a voltage?
Thanks for any tips!
JamboyStu 3 years ago
Look on e-bay for a Wind Turbine Alternator Generator or go to a junk yard and get an upgrade kit for it.
A solenoid is not going to work.
HiTekVagabond 3 years ago
If you really are a poor student who wants to build windmills, you might want to skip the build-it-yourself stage. What you will discover is that building a wind turbine that works is a LOT harder than it looks.
What you should do is look at a well-run company like Vestas. Find out what kinds of workers they want to hire and change your major to match. Being an expert in wind technology has a bright future. But if you don't know what a solenoid does, you aren't ready for it.
eltechno 3 years ago
Why don't aren't we just filling up the american plains with these things?!?!
patio87 3 years ago 5
some environmentalists think that birds would get killed by them.
I wish we'd all use at least one of these in our houses though. I'm designing a wind turbine at the moment for domestic use.
JamboyStu 3 years ago
well birds and other flying things are killed but they take that into concideration when zoning turbines
windsmith2010 1 year ago
Thanks for posting. I enjoyed your video. They sure look huge when up close like that. Looks like it was a very long day!
Regalcourt101 3 years ago 2
what's better one large one or thousands of smaller ones???
circusboy90210 3 years ago
The size of a good wind turbine is not arbitrary. The wind doesn't get clean and reliable until about 100' (30 meters) into the air. The size of the blades is determined by how much energy it requires to run the generator. Blades are about 40 meters long (131 ') so the mast must be about 70 meters (230') high. So this is not about big vs little. There is a optimum size--which is why most good wind turbines are about the same physical size (between 2 and 5 megawatts.)
eltechno 3 years ago
well the cost of them is. what is the ecnomically feasible size (which one will kill less of the avian species) which cost less to erect to maintain etc. so yess there is a better size. you have to take all the variables into effect. keeping in mind that you also whant people to be able to work on them inherintly putting more people in share of the power structure, & creating need for schools & workers to spread the economic power.
circusboy90210 3 years ago
Well, the primary goal is to capture the energy of the wind. Those other goals may be wonderful, but if the wind turbines such thinking produces don't work very well, all those other goals fail too.
As for these turbines killing birds--that lie has been discredited LONG ago. (In fact, the big turbines are MUCH less dangerous to birds because they turn so slowly.) I am sorry you still believe it.
If you think that little wind turbines are better--please build one that actually works.
eltechno 3 years ago
but they do kill avion species but that aspect it factored into consideration of where to put the turbine if endangered birds are at risk you will not get the ok same with all wild life
windsmith2010 1 year ago
i visited a wind farm cell phone in hand with camera, sorry no dead wildlife to photograph, in fact it was not even noisy.
maby the dead ones had rotted months ago? or as i suspect the thirty mile hour winds and high altitude are not natural enviornments for birds to be flying in. not very energy cost effective for the bird species i suspect.. i just cant wait for your response but your not going to get a response.
datzfast 1 year ago
this depends on how large and how small, the location, and the brand of turbine
windsmith2010 1 year ago
eltechno, this was more than an "elegant technology" video, it was downright majestic! The shots (and editing) may have lied about the time it took to put the turbine up, but the editing--and ending the "day" in that golden prairie light--were beautiful. The primo music/iconic images of men at work didn't hurt, either!
marginallymental 3 years ago
Thank you for those kind words. On that last day, real work didn't get started until around noon because of all the inspection and repair due to a giant hailstorm. But it was Friday and folks wanted to make up for the delay. So they labored until after dark. MY favorite clip comes at the end where a very large and powerful man is carrying the "sock" used to keep the lower turbine blade from dragging on the ground. He is still moving but obviously VERY tired. It was a LONG day.
eltechno 3 years ago
I agree-he's exhausted. Two questions: are those blades actually flexing a little, or is that an optical illusion? And how much does one of these behemoths COST?? I suppose that's relative to local energy prices, but I'm curious.
marginallymental 3 years ago
The blade do flex a bit. That is why the nacelle has a nose-up attitude. But mostly it is optics fooling us.
This Vestas v82 cost about $2 million when it was erected. This includes the parts of the construction I captured on video plus the foundation (a BIG project) and the hook-up to the grid. To give you an idea of why everyone now wants to build wind turbines, this Vestas saved St. Olaf College over $300,000 the first year.
eltechno 3 years ago
I was amazed as to the scale of the turbine. It's huge!
I just have a question, seems $2,000,000.00 is not a lot for a project of this size, but are you sure that it actually saved the school $300,000.00 the first year? If that's the case, then this is a gold mine.
Also, in comparison, what is the ratio of homes powered by this one turbine (if you know) I'm very interested in this due to the potential of property I have in California that's been preposed for such use. I thank you.
timmunozlasvegas 3 years ago
That $2 million is an old figure, remember--ask your local Vestas dealer for more current info.
The St. Olaf figures come straight from the head of plant services at the school. The school had built their own power plant in the 1930s and had installed a 440v 3-phase loop they could now hook into their windmill. So St. Olaf never sells its power--they substitute it for power they would otherwise buy. And that's where they get their figures.
St. Olaf LOVES its wind turbine.
eltechno 3 years ago
I see the giant wind turbine motors and blades go throw appleton,wisconsin every wed. A whole train full of them. One blade take up a train car and a half. It's pretty amazing how big these things are. I don't know why but they are awe inspiring just to watch something that big move.
tool1661 3 years ago
I see trucks carrying turbine blades and other wind turbine parts almost every time I travel around Houston on I-10 or I-290. All are headed west or northwest. Quite a few are being installed in the State of Texas.
rollswrangler 3 years ago
Ahah, T Boone Pickens
warchild81 3 years ago
looked like a 1 day project. awesome.
iamalmosteighteen 3 years ago
This took five days. The Boldt Construction guys had never erected a wind turbine before and were being VERY cautious. And then there was the weather--a major hailstorm during construction dropped baseball-sized hail doing extensive damage to every vehicle in the area including the crane. Sorry if the video suggests this all happened in one day.
eltechno 3 years ago
Is the fiddeling music some Swedish/Scandinavian folk music? Sound like that, and your surname - Larson - sure is a typical Swedish name. Nice to be able to watch this structure get built up.
emiljessen 3 years ago
Yes my ancestors are 7/8 Swedish. But the music is all Norwegian or by the St. Olaf Choir because the school was founded by Norwegian immigrants in the 19th century.
eltechno 3 years ago
ok, Norwegian and Swedish folk music (neighbour countrys, almost the same language and culture) are in many ways very similar, so that's an answer that confirms my thought. Keep it up!
emiljessen 3 years ago
these turbines are immense, i work for vestas blades uk producing the wood/carbon blades for the v82, seeing and working on the blades everyday you forget just how big they are....but this video has put it back into persective...
391ant391 3 years ago 4
They assemble just like the new floor lamp I bought, screw it together, and put in the light! On a more serious note, here in Wisconsin (USA), they've recently installed about 30-40 vestas turbines on the way to somewhere by fond du lac I think, and then there's another 40 or so to the east of that bunch, the whole projects have been completed in as little as 3-4 months.
airbuscrazy 3 years ago
Just to correct some misinformation. There were 86 wind turbines erected from October 07 to March of 08, in Brownsville, Wisconsin. The 1st one was errected in October and took 16 hours to finish. The last 2 were done in one day.
tsmfam 3 years ago
Ooh I've seen a wind turbine next to the St. Olaf College campus. I wonder if that was it or if they built a new one??
Bradhahn14 3 years ago
This is it. They have another on order (or two) but if you have seen the one they have, this is how it got there.
eltechno 3 years ago
Thank you for that. Very well done.
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windpowerrocks 3 years ago
The US is producing wind turbines. Texas is the leader in the industry and there is a Houston based company.
Legionnaire18 3 years ago
Please tell us the name of the company, what kind of turbines they make, and how many they have running.
eltechno 3 years ago
It's called Horizon Wind.
Legionnaire18 3 years ago
Looked it up. Horizon operates wind farms. They do NOT, so far as I can tell, manufacture any equipment. M. Hansen and I are talking about folks who make the equipment.
eltechno 3 years ago
Yea Horizon wind is a windturbine operator, they are owned by a large spanish grid company.. GE is the only american company on the market and many of their subsuppliers are sadly european
benthansen 3 years ago
Texas is NOT the leader in wind turbine technology. Denmark is. Vestas Wind Systems hold 23% of the market. In second place is Spain with Gamesa taking 12%. Germany (Siemens) is probably third. PERIOD!
jackiebaron 3 years ago
and thats just vestas the other danish companies siemens wind power, the world largest blade producer LM glasfiber and the offshore wind park producer A2SEA will soon start production on american soil.. with thousands of US jobs to come
benthansen 3 years ago
hi.. im telling u that this product is gonna get the american economy back on it´s feet.. the ceo. of vestas recently said in a press conference in denmark that he expected more than 100.000 employes in 2015 (low estimate) they have 18.000 now.. many of them will off course be american because of the huge market.. this is only the beginning to a HUGE industry
benthansen 3 years ago
I am HAPPY that the Danes are coming with their good jobs. The more wind turbines we build, the better the economy.
However, I am just slightly annoyed that we couldn't have done this ourselves. After all, USA is a country that once went to the moon just to show off our industrial capabilities.
eltechno 3 years ago
Yea I see what you mean but this tecnology is not fully developed and we need the bright minds of america to further develope this fantastic machine. Vestas is opening a R&D facility next year in Houston and will create 500 US engineering jobs.
U´re right bad priorities from US politicians in the 80´s and 90´s and now GE is lacking 10 years behind don´t know if they can catch up, it´s gonna take alot of money and hard work. the largest they have is sadly an obsolete vestas 1.5 MW
benthansen 3 years ago
Not just the politicians--also the guys who ran the big companies. The head of GE was called "Neutron Jack" Welch because he destroyed the company and left the buildings standing. The company he left behind is in poor position to compete with a Vestas because 1) Wind turbines are harder to build than they look, and 2) Nordic engineers are some of the best in the world.
eltechno 3 years ago
I don´t know if our engineers are better.. but u´re right they look simple but are as advanced as aeroplanes and takes at least 10 years to develope. I think it will be like in the airplane industri, with alot of companies capable of producing smaller turbines up to 1.5 MW but only 2 or 3 that can build the mega turbines.. i don´t think we will see them much larger than 4 MW on a larger scale simply because it´s cheaper to build 2 2MW´s instead of one 4 MW
benthansen 3 years ago
Vestas is currently putting all their money on the 1.65 MW , the 2 MW and the 3 MW and more or less stop production of anything smaller than that except China.. GE lost a lot of precius development time during the Enron period, and i don´t know if it´s to late they definetly need to gain or perhaps buy some knowhow perhaps the german/danish Nordex company? or perhaps Enercon
benthansen 3 years ago
Nice video. Its the future. The one think I like about your site more then most is that you remove any reply that uses bad language. I have only seen these from 2 or more miles away. Joe in Florida
joemc111 3 years ago
you shot this footage? very impressive
just a random question why dont they put solar panels on the structure?
gtochad 3 years ago
Why not? It's area that can't be used for anything else, but the solar panels can be used there. Wind and solar energy ROCK.
TobiasofRhuin 3 years ago
herrcrap get the fuck out of here...you dont understand the value of renewable or clean energy...I suggest you go and take a nap...
bubbaUK 3 years ago
Vertical turbines have drawbacks.
They are low to the ground where the wind is 50% slower.
They are limited in their size.
They are not more efficient.
They require support wires/cables that can more easily break and then it becomes very unstable.
The only advantage they really have is the ease of installation and maintenance.
washparkguy 3 years ago
nice video, good focus
antigravitationskano 3 years ago
These turbines are definately not obsolete, lm glasfiber is the worlds largest in making fiberglass blades and for those blades to work they need these turbines
jeremywoinarowicz 3 years ago
Too bad that turbine is already obsolete vertical mounted turbines are better as they are powered by wind from all directions without pivoting.
blamblabber25 3 years ago
I SERIOUSLY doubt that a vertical-mounted turbine will make anything obsolete. There are good sound reasons why all the serious wind turbine manufacturers use a three-bladed rotor. Let me know when someone has actually built a 2 mw vertical wind turbine that works--THEN we will have a discussion.
eltechno 3 years ago
i like you eltechno haha i agree 100 % with vertical axis wind turbines or VAWTS there are to many draw backs and design flaws on paper there are a good concept but in actuality not so much interesting fact there are about 10 different companies that produce wind turbines each with about 10 models not one a vawt another fact there is NO commercially produced vawt EVER and for good reasons
windsmith2010 1 year ago
That is big. A lot easier to erect than a Nuclear power station. A few more thousand of these dotted around your country and you'll be getting there.
solarday 3 years ago 2
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windpowerrocks 3 years ago
Cool!
KellySaunders5 3 years ago
Ya they just built like 9 of those up here on the laurention divide. They be pretty sweet, but i think they like quit on them cause they havent been to work in like 2 weeks... What that all about
woodyoutwo 3 years ago
There is a BUNCH of work to do between the erection of the structure and going online. This one required about five weeks to get running.
eltechno 3 years ago
I wonder how it is the power of this engine obstetric
mynameisjafar77 3 years ago
yeah this isreally a future we need this stuff in Africa a lot how much will it be to invest on such a thing in Africa it is big deal here
andyjk10 3 years ago
About a quarter million ($) a piece for the lower end (225kW)
techforumz 3 years ago