@Kookas It's actually perfectly save in this type (don't know about all types, although I would be surprised if there are unsafe ones). No touchable moving parts at all. I work in industrial safety and can say that I would love it if most of our clients had machines that were this well designed & maintained.
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Awesome video! I've just been offered a job as an operation maintenance technician working on these. I start in 4 weeks. I can't wait! This has gave me an idea of what to expect! cheers :D
The Wind is free....Converting it to electric is expensive. With over 100.000 turbines on line we still wait for the first coal generator to be closed. Billions spent with little in return.
Ah yep, a windturbine with its brakes releasing.. not fun to be near at all! :) My brother builds windmills for a living and its not fun at all to be near them when they release their brakes.
Great video, thanks for sharing. I did'nt have patience to check all the comments, could you please tell me who's playing the music the name of the song? Kind regards. :-)
Thanks for posting this video! Wind turbines generally produce electricity at speeds of 8mph or more. Wind turbines come in different sizes and are used in both small and large-scale applications. Pacific Crest Transformers manufactures transformers for the wind energy sector. It includes Grounding transformers with harsh duty requirements, Wind Turbine Step-Up Transformers, Collector Step-Up Transformers, and Dynamic VAR Compensation Systems Transformers.
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I thought wind was great until I read the problems they have. Erratic power output means base load conventional power must be maintained to compensate. The more turbines you have the bigger the headache to power mgrs. The best ones only produce 1/3rd of the time and output 20% of rating. The bird kill issue is big as is the 2700 gallon oil consumption in the gear boxes let alone the steal (iron ore coal) required to construct one. Not such a good deal afterall.
Modern wind turbines use full power conversion, which means they can be used to correct disturbances in the grid. Most produce power over 80% of the time, output low power at low wind speeds,the wind is FREE - every MW generated is not produced by gas, oil or coal or some other non-renewable fuel. How is the bird kill issue "big"? 2700 gal oil consumption is nonsense, avg is more like quarts. Takes steel & iron to make one. What did you expect? Electricity would make itself for nothing
@Xelastic well im working for SWP in Denmark, and producing 3.6MW mills more than 3x time the size of what you see here, both physical and productivity. and a speed thats at max constantly all year around..
But these im a part of is offshore, to large for onshore purposes.
currently working on a site creating 142x 3.6mw offshore windmills.
@kjg3000 Please rewrite your comment, as it is not very accurate, and nor does it make much sense. Your sentence structure is terrible, and your method of argumentation hurried, not thought through, and very sloppy. Wind power is not reliable and it is certainly not free. It is vastly expensive and unsustainable. It is not renewable, and not reliable. Get out of your Mummy Gaia fantasy and ask yourself what humanity needs as a whole.
@ibykus1981 I don't know if there is any truth to what you say about wind power, but I tend to think that nuclear power would be a much better investment in the long term. The wind doesn't always blow, nor does it ever blow on a schedule. You can't get baseband power from a wind turbine. Perhaps there is a place for wind power, but we need more than that.
Wind turbines pay for themselves in 6-18 months. A nuclear plant never actually makes money, its just that the government subsidizes the construction, pays for waste disposal, and pays for breakdown of old plants and storage. The utility that got all the free money doesn't really have to pay it back.
@rickcain2320 No, they don't. They can't, since the power they produce is so much more expensive than the market rates for electricity that without "incentive" programs that punish people for using cheap energy, nobody would ever buy any of the power generated by these turbines.
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Windmills are a lot of buck for very little bang! This is why they have to be SO big! They're a pain in-the-neck to maintain. A real combustion turbine is MUCH more efficient than any number of these things is.
they are gargantuan.. here is just one and its stats.. NAME: "ZEPHYR" - named April 25, 2001 Manufacturer: N E G Micon Began generating: May 14, 1999 Dedicated: June 24, 1999 Cost: $ 667,000 Power Rating: 750 kilowatts Tower Weight: 55 tons Tower Height: 180 feet Total Height: 263 feet Total Weight: 92 tons Nacelle Weight: 22 tons Blade Weight: 4 tons each Blade Length: 78 feet Rotor Diameter: 156 feet Rotor and Hub Weight: 15 tons Blade Revolution Speed: 22 rpm
Wow, that's amazing! I can't imagine being almost 400 feet in the air with a 200 foot rotor propeller turning right next to me.
This video is probably the closest that I will ever get to experience something like that without actually being there in person. I'm fascinated by wind turbines, and I am always looking to learn more about them.
Thank you for sharing this, and again, it's truly amazing what's inside of these and how large they actually are.
I build these things. It is really impressive being up there, sometimes hanging from outside and looking down! I really love my job, it`s the best office in the world and believe me, this is a smal turbine! :D
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We need nukes so we can be free of windmills and solar. I like the lights to come on and for my computer, television and radio to work at night when there's no wind.
rather you than me! the stupid thing is my dad was a steeplejack! he wouldn't thing anything of being up a 400ft tv mast fitting the lightning conductors. once i saw him hanging over the side of the GPO Tower in birmingham, england, on a bosun's chair that was basically a 2ft piece of plank on the end of some rope. none of those genes got through to me at all.
...ammunition? I mean safe for ALL involved. If you mean fuel for nucvlear weapons, "safety" includes any who might be blasted to pieces with it. Still not safe in my book.
The big thing to remember is that wind power isn't supposed to be the one, only, single new 'green' energy source. A bunch of 'green' energy sources need to work together to produce appreciable amounts of 'green' power.
Sorry... Far as I've ever seen, though, the only way to 'make nuclear waste permanently safe' is to encase it in lead and bury it deep in the ground. But eventually, we're going to fill up the safe places we have to store it - possibly before we figure out a use for it.
WOW...that is amazing. I got to stand next to one for the first time in Kansas while it was turning. That was incredible to see and hear. You don't realize how big they are until you stand next to one.
expample there where 4 incidents in a nuclear powerplant in france in 1 month time they had to evacuate the porwerplants becouse of uranium leaks same whith slovenia at one time they had to shut down so many nuclear plants in europe that the hospitals lackt nuclear supstance used for scanning people.
not so save it seems to me.
as for the windmill acidents i didnt know bet i convinced it stil alot less dangerus many of these accidents whil have to do whille
doing maintence and it seems to me working in a powerplant ist that healty to.
To Rcrby525 i would say if your dutch is as good as my english then whel talk otherwise shut up.
anyways i just think its not the way to go green energy is getting better every year becouse of research it has alot of potencial.
To mkarnerfors dont put words in my mouth i didnt say ok. You dont have to be a profesor to know nuclear powerplants whil always be a potencial danger at a certen level.
do you realy believe there gonne say how many people died becouse of chernobyl they always understate these kind of disasters who is there to check on what they say.
And dont forget the effect it has had on the survivers and there childeren and there
we sould concentrate on the green solutions and not go any further whith nuclear or fossil fuels the day we dont longer need them whil be a good day.
and you ask us show me how many have been killed or ingured by using nuclear power why dont you show me how many have been killed by windmills i dont know any numbers on that and i dont think you do eather.
and you talk of means to make nuclear waste safe what ever they
Wind turbines don't produce radiation, so no one has died from wind turbine radiation. The deaths are from falls off the nacelles, getting chewed up in the machinery, being cut in half by chunks of falling ice, fires, or smashed by pieces of the blades when they explode. Search for "Windmill/Wind Turbine Explosion" for a video. When you compare all the deaths of Chernobyl with the amount of power nuclear has produced, it's actually safer than wind. Wind power is so small it's negligible.
The problem with nuclear power is that it only takes one mishap and it's all over, like Chernobyl, but you can always replace and/or fix a wind turbines.
No. The problem is that wind turbines kill a proportionally large number of people when they fail, for the amount of power we get out of them. In other words, if we built enough wind turbines to replace nuclear power plants, more people would be killed by wind turbines than were killed by Chernobyl.
Uhm... maybe you havn't noticed, but we're still here! The total death toll from Chernobyl is expected to be less than 4000. So no, it does *not* "take one mishap and its' all over". If we start counting deaths per kWh, wind power is more dangerous. Adn again: show me how many have been killed, injured or had bad health from nuclear waste.
There are methods to deal with nuclear waste to make it permanently safe. The greens deny this of course because that shoots their case out of the water.
do its stil there they dont solve the problem whith green power you dont have waste in the first place.
i dont wont to sound naieve i know we cant just go from fossil an nuclear power to green in one day bet we have to realize its the way to go fossil fuels whil run out and nuclear stay dangerous whatever they say just look at all the recent incidents in nuclear powerplants mistakes that happen so far only chernobyl went bad bet i dont realy want to wait for another disaster like that.
Chernobyl happened the way it did, and to the magnitude it did, because the Soviet built a type of reactor - the RBMK reactors - that were inherently unsafe and that were shunned by the rest of the world. Noone else allowed them to be built. Why? Because they are the only type in the world that could suffer catastrophic power excursions of the kind that happened in april 26, 1986.
You cannot say that there are other such disasters waiting to happen, because other reactors can *not* do that.
If you are saying that every other reactor in the world is like the Chernobyl reactors, the you are either wrong becaus eyou dno't know what the heck you are talking about, or you are willfully lyign and telling untruths.
Which one is it? Ar eyou ignorant on the subject or are you lying to us? It must be one of these because one cannot say other reactors types, such as PWR's and BWR's, are like the RBMK's.... because that is simply not true.
They are extremely expensive and inefficient - in full operation they produce no more energy than a medium sized truck engine driving a generator, that's why individual wind farms need hundreds of turbines.
wow how do u go up there i would flip out!!!! I would have like a heart atttack!!! I get a lil bit scared on kingda ka which is 458 feet in the air and goes 128 mph but i am securely strapped in how do u go up there and not get like blown off by the high powered winds at that height also
Too cool, this ancient technology is going to give this generation a massive allowance. Cha Ching!! especially when oil just sucks the life outta all of us. Damn that black gold
It depends, if you work for a union - up to over 30 dollars an hour, depends on what state you work in and what union you work for. Non-Union up to 16 dollars an hour.
I heard you guys have higher taxes there though, I live in Canada and they're building shit loads here. We make about 20-25 dollars an hour but our taxes are lower so it balances out.
I wanted to see a bit more of the 'innards'. Too bad it doesn't show much of the INSIDE of a Wind Turbine as the caption cunningly suggests. Perhaps 'View from the Top of a Bleedingly Tall Wind Turbine' might have been more honest!
That actually shows some of the insides. There is not too much to them, it shows some of the generator and inner workings. Really there is not much to them, the nacelle and the pedestal.
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Excuse me for thinking. But if we get thousands (maybe hundreds of millions) of wind turbines up and running all over the planet (especially in windy areas, are we not going to change the weather patterns. I mean, we are moving energy from the atmosphere and converting it to another form of energy. The energy is not destroyed, its simlpy moved. So, if we move billions upon billlions of units of energy from the weather system, don't you think that will change the weather?
They create less wind resistance that say... a brick shaped house, or... a TREE. Weather was never, and will never be a consistant thing, get used to it
That's a retarded concern. Yes, lots of turbines would change the weather, but it will just be the opposite effect of deforestation, so it would help return things to the way they used to be.
I'm more concerned about the prohibitive cost of turbines for the very small amounts of power produced, and their propensity to kill workers and utterly destroy everything nearby when they fail.
They dont destroy everything nearby, They pretty much just shatter. And the wont change the weather, They use the wind plus a small amount of the energy they produce to spin the blades which just move the air past.
I would like to talk about the Texas Corridor and what the authorities are going to do about the "rewilding" of all rural areas - moving all rural people to cities? They are going to "wall off" small towns and virtually make ghost towns so we cannot access our land.
Screw you and your propaganda! I know that windfarms are the best thing since sliced bread. You wont put me off them by making me associate them with jazz music!
How do can we destroy these monsters? I was hoping that a person could destroy the generator by shooting it with a deer rifle, but now it seems like I might be better to use a cutting torch to undermine the tower.
very cool.
leamyelectricinc1 6 months ago
I know that people have died from being caught in the mechanics whilst up there.. aren't you a bit close to the turbine's moving parts? :s
Kookas 1 year ago
@Kookas It's actually perfectly save in this type (don't know about all types, although I would be surprised if there are unsafe ones). No touchable moving parts at all. I work in industrial safety and can say that I would love it if most of our clients had machines that were this well designed & maintained.
pepijnk 11 months ago 3
@pepijnk Man those 1.3 sure look crowded what is the rotor size on them.
roddmadd 11 months ago
@pepijnk Well, the death I heard of was an engineer, so I guess it's only if you open it up that it becomes dangerous.
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Peace, Sam
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omg music sounds like my dentists place!
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Gazthepro 1 year ago
Awesome video! I've just been offered a job as an operation maintenance technician working on these. I start in 4 weeks. I can't wait! This has gave me an idea of what to expect! cheers :D
Gazthepro 1 year ago 2
Nice to see a YouTube video without a rock soundtrack!
misterbonzai08 1 year ago 2
Incredible!!!!!!
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The Wind is free....Converting it to electric is expensive. With over 100.000 turbines on line we still wait for the first coal generator to be closed. Billions spent with little in return.
rextundra 1 year ago
Ah yep, a windturbine with its brakes releasing.. not fun to be near at all! :) My brother builds windmills for a living and its not fun at all to be near them when they release their brakes.
Sanosuke004 1 year ago
That was so cool! Thanks for sharing!!
awassena 1 year ago
Great video, thanks for sharing. I did'nt have patience to check all the comments, could you please tell me who's playing the music the name of the song? Kind regards. :-)
monksanonymous 1 year ago
mhmöchte ja nicht rum nervern aber bin total einsam wer hat lust zu schreibn
RebecaMurphy 1 year ago
Are you seriously running that turbine while up in the nacelle or did you just pitch the blades?
justincerveny 2 years ago
do u know the song name for this video?? i know it sounds random but itd b cool to play this on guitar. or is it not a song?
touchenguow 2 years ago
Thanks for posting this video! Wind turbines generally produce electricity at speeds of 8mph or more. Wind turbines come in different sizes and are used in both small and large-scale applications. Pacific Crest Transformers manufactures transformers for the wind energy sector. It includes Grounding transformers with harsh duty requirements, Wind Turbine Step-Up Transformers, Collector Step-Up Transformers, and Dynamic VAR Compensation Systems Transformers.
pacificcresttrans 2 years ago
Cool!
javaxsqft 2 years ago
Nice nice.. but
I love Siemens 3.6MW <3 <3 <3
You are able to standup inside the nacelle, and the front
hatches open only 1m from the hub.. There is a small service hatch at the hub on the nacelle.
Highly recommended to go check if you have the posibility.
Eqvaliser 2 years ago
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I thought wind was great until I read the problems they have. Erratic power output means base load conventional power must be maintained to compensate. The more turbines you have the bigger the headache to power mgrs. The best ones only produce 1/3rd of the time and output 20% of rating. The bird kill issue is big as is the 2700 gallon oil consumption in the gear boxes let alone the steal (iron ore coal) required to construct one. Not such a good deal afterall.
caribousteaks 2 years ago
Modern wind turbines use full power conversion, which means they can be used to correct disturbances in the grid. Most produce power over 80% of the time, output low power at low wind speeds,the wind is FREE - every MW generated is not produced by gas, oil or coal or some other non-renewable fuel. How is the bird kill issue "big"? 2700 gal oil consumption is nonsense, avg is more like quarts. Takes steel & iron to make one. What did you expect? Electricity would make itself for nothing
kjg3000 2 years ago 15
@kjg3000
The question is : when are we gonna get more of these.... like a LOT more
Xelastic 1 year ago
@Xelastic well im working for SWP in Denmark, and producing 3.6MW mills more than 3x time the size of what you see here, both physical and productivity. and a speed thats at max constantly all year around..
But these im a part of is offshore, to large for onshore purposes.
currently working on a site creating 142x 3.6mw offshore windmills.
Eqvaliser 1 year ago 3
@kjg3000 Please rewrite your comment, as it is not very accurate, and nor does it make much sense. Your sentence structure is terrible, and your method of argumentation hurried, not thought through, and very sloppy. Wind power is not reliable and it is certainly not free. It is vastly expensive and unsustainable. It is not renewable, and not reliable. Get out of your Mummy Gaia fantasy and ask yourself what humanity needs as a whole.
ibykus1981 1 year ago
@ibykus1981 I don't know if there is any truth to what you say about wind power, but I tend to think that nuclear power would be a much better investment in the long term. The wind doesn't always blow, nor does it ever blow on a schedule. You can't get baseband power from a wind turbine. Perhaps there is a place for wind power, but we need more than that.
ccoraxfan 1 year ago
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Wind turbines pay for themselves in 6-18 months. A nuclear plant never actually makes money, its just that the government subsidizes the construction, pays for waste disposal, and pays for breakdown of old plants and storage. The utility that got all the free money doesn't really have to pay it back.
rickcain2320 6 months ago 3
@rickcain2320 No, they don't. They can't, since the power they produce is so much more expensive than the market rates for electricity that without "incentive" programs that punish people for using cheap energy, nobody would ever buy any of the power generated by these turbines.
ccoraxfan 6 months ago
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Windmills are a lot of buck for very little bang! This is why they have to be SO big! They're a pain in-the-neck to maintain. A real combustion turbine is MUCH more efficient than any number of these things is.
red33410 2 years ago
I didnt realise how big they actually are!
Dangerbean 2 years ago 6
phunky98 2 years ago
@phunky98 that's kinda small... nowhere close to gargantuan.
bigdougo 1 year ago
Wow, that's amazing! I can't imagine being almost 400 feet in the air with a 200 foot rotor propeller turning right next to me.
This video is probably the closest that I will ever get to experience something like that without actually being there in person. I'm fascinated by wind turbines, and I am always looking to learn more about them.
Thank you for sharing this, and again, it's truly amazing what's inside of these and how large they actually are.
Ecm51 2 years ago 8
Glad you like it :-)
pepijnk 2 years ago
@Ecm51
I build these things. It is really impressive being up there, sometimes hanging from outside and looking down! I really love my job, it`s the best office in the world and believe me, this is a smal turbine! :D
vecorsmeister 1 year ago
I climb them everyday
ramborhoa 2 years ago
whats the pay like
DirtyPee 2 years ago
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only $20 an hour
ramborhoa 2 years ago
I'm not climbing that ladder. Hell no.
piper4seeformerly 2 years ago
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pussyfaggots afraid of heights and everything else we need windmills and solar so we can be free from raghead oil
FractAlkemist 2 years ago
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We need nukes so we can be free of windmills and solar. I like the lights to come on and for my computer, television and radio to work at night when there's no wind.
upajos 2 years ago
I really hate to stay under windmills. It's so scary.
Mehslipknot 2 years ago
i am scared of heights and the shot at around 1.12 made the bottom of my feet tingle!
BARNAPE 2 years ago 8
Me too.
canadaeast 2 years ago
i have bin in higher towers, mobile connection tower 79m!!!!
tritonmole 2 years ago
rather you than me! the stupid thing is my dad was a steeplejack! he wouldn't thing anything of being up a 400ft tv mast fitting the lightning conductors. once i saw him hanging over the side of the GPO Tower in birmingham, england, on a bosun's chair that was basically a 2ft piece of plank on the end of some rope. none of those genes got through to me at all.
BARNAPE 2 years ago
@BARNAPE me too FUCKING SCARED OF HEIGHTS!
kevinfire50 1 year ago
where would you find a tech school or college that had wind energy as a program?
KageKirby 2 years ago
Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma City Campus ...
99jviper 2 years ago
Not sure where you are from but there is a program offered through Iowa Lakes Community Colege and Lake Region State College. Midwestern schools.
TheMoezilla 2 years ago
...ammunition? I mean safe for ALL involved. If you mean fuel for nucvlear weapons, "safety" includes any who might be blasted to pieces with it. Still not safe in my book.
JonasClark 2 years ago 3
What is the pay scale for a technician that does this? Looking in to a school for it.
CRAZYLARO 2 years ago
Pay scale ? Pay depends on a lot of different things.
TheLiptonGroup 2 years ago
Like?
CRAZYLARO 2 years ago
The big thing to remember is that wind power isn't supposed to be the one, only, single new 'green' energy source. A bunch of 'green' energy sources need to work together to produce appreciable amounts of 'green' power.
Sorry... Far as I've ever seen, though, the only way to 'make nuclear waste permanently safe' is to encase it in lead and bury it deep in the ground. But eventually, we're going to fill up the safe places we have to store it - possibly before we figure out a use for it.
JonasClark 2 years ago
Ammunition?
robthereckless 2 years ago
Yes EXACTLY. Nuclear power is NOT a long term global option, finally someone who sees reason.
We are going to need Wind, Solar, Wave, AND Geothermal energy to pull through and coordinate them to give the world energy.
Spartan2552 2 years ago 2
Very good bit of video.
Something that we dont get to see every day.
petermines 2 years ago
WOW...that is amazing. I got to stand next to one for the first time in Kansas while it was turning. That was incredible to see and hear. You don't realize how big they are until you stand next to one.
Dan6204 2 years ago 4
I saw a blade being carried near the highway. it's huge.
greengrendel 2 years ago
Yea I have to. I travel a lot on my job and see them often. I'm amazed at how they assemble one of these windmills.
Dan6204 2 years ago
How do they do it? I've always wondered.
greengrendel 2 years ago
Jazz ...Nice!
MikeHuntagape 3 years ago 2
that is one incredible view.... although i'd be terrified to be up there myself.
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The US uses 3.3 terriwatts of power. How many terriwatts of power could I buy for $819 billlion?
JohnLloydScharf 3 years ago
Holland hup holland
heerlenlive 3 years ago
mr rogers is cool
BLUECHET 3 years ago
Yeah that is some pretty sweet elevator music .
reminds me of Mr. Rogers . lol
wattwareking 3 years ago
ooo yeeaa
SilentEcho8 3 years ago
In Sweden, we call this "Bingo-lotto music".
kamratframjandet 3 years ago
just det =P
TheNoobsWay 3 years ago
it might not be of the same proportions of chernobyl bet dangerus non the less for
raptordna 3 years ago
expample there where 4 incidents in a nuclear powerplant in france in 1 month time they had to evacuate the porwerplants becouse of uranium leaks same whith slovenia at one time they had to shut down so many nuclear plants in europe that the hospitals lackt nuclear supstance used for scanning people.
not so save it seems to me.
as for the windmill acidents i didnt know bet i convinced it stil alot less dangerus many of these accidents whil have to do whille
raptordna 3 years ago
doing maintence and it seems to me working in a powerplant ist that healty to.
To Rcrby525 i would say if your dutch is as good as my english then whel talk otherwise shut up.
anyways i just think its not the way to go green energy is getting better every year becouse of research it has alot of potencial.
To mkarnerfors dont put words in my mouth i didnt say ok. You dont have to be a profesor to know nuclear powerplants whil always be a potencial danger at a certen level.
raptordna 3 years ago
do you realy believe there gonne say how many people died becouse of chernobyl they always understate these kind of disasters who is there to check on what they say.
And dont forget the effect it has had on the survivers and there childeren and there
raptordna 3 years ago
would help is your could spell worth shit and punctuate your sentances, and injured doesn't have a "g" in it.
Rcrby525 3 years ago
childeren.
And the area is stil not suited to live in.
we sould concentrate on the green solutions and not go any further whith nuclear or fossil fuels the day we dont longer need them whil be a good day.
and you ask us show me how many have been killed or ingured by using nuclear power why dont you show me how many have been killed by windmills i dont know any numbers on that and i dont think you do eather.
and you talk of means to make nuclear waste safe what ever they
raptordna 3 years ago
Google search for "Summary of Wind Turbine Accident data".
They've recorded about 49 accidents per year, with 57 resulting in fatalities.
Yes, this is nothing compared to Chernobyl, but the energy produced by wind is proportionally tiny, too. When taken together, wind is a killer.
jigglesnap 3 years ago
Wind turbines produce so little energy that they're actually more dangerous than Chernobyl, when you compare deaths per watt-hour produced.
jigglesnap 3 years ago
but how many people have died from wind turbine radiation?
NZKartsport 3 years ago
Wind turbines don't produce radiation, so no one has died from wind turbine radiation. The deaths are from falls off the nacelles, getting chewed up in the machinery, being cut in half by chunks of falling ice, fires, or smashed by pieces of the blades when they explode. Search for "Windmill/Wind Turbine Explosion" for a video. When you compare all the deaths of Chernobyl with the amount of power nuclear has produced, it's actually safer than wind. Wind power is so small it's negligible.
jigglesnap 3 years ago 2
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You also have to consider the effect of the dumped nuclear waste.
NZKartsport 3 years ago
Show me someone who's been harmed by nuclear waste.
jigglesnap 3 years ago
The problem with nuclear power is that it only takes one mishap and it's all over, like Chernobyl, but you can always replace and/or fix a wind turbines.
yogibear698 3 years ago
No. The problem is that wind turbines kill a proportionally large number of people when they fail, for the amount of power we get out of them. In other words, if we built enough wind turbines to replace nuclear power plants, more people would be killed by wind turbines than were killed by Chernobyl.
jigglesnap 3 years ago
Uhm... maybe you havn't noticed, but we're still here! The total death toll from Chernobyl is expected to be less than 4000. So no, it does *not* "take one mishap and its' all over". If we start counting deaths per kWh, wind power is more dangerous. Adn again: show me how many have been killed, injured or had bad health from nuclear waste.
There are methods to deal with nuclear waste to make it permanently safe. The greens deny this of course because that shoots their case out of the water.
mkarnerfors 3 years ago
do its stil there they dont solve the problem whith green power you dont have waste in the first place.
i dont wont to sound naieve i know we cant just go from fossil an nuclear power to green in one day bet we have to realize its the way to go fossil fuels whil run out and nuclear stay dangerous whatever they say just look at all the recent incidents in nuclear powerplants mistakes that happen so far only chernobyl went bad bet i dont realy want to wait for another disaster like that.
raptordna 3 years ago
Chernobyl happened the way it did, and to the magnitude it did, because the Soviet built a type of reactor - the RBMK reactors - that were inherently unsafe and that were shunned by the rest of the world. Noone else allowed them to be built. Why? Because they are the only type in the world that could suffer catastrophic power excursions of the kind that happened in april 26, 1986.
You cannot say that there are other such disasters waiting to happen, because other reactors can *not* do that.
mkarnerfors 3 years ago
If you are saying that every other reactor in the world is like the Chernobyl reactors, the you are either wrong becaus eyou dno't know what the heck you are talking about, or you are willfully lyign and telling untruths.
Which one is it? Ar eyou ignorant on the subject or are you lying to us? It must be one of these because one cannot say other reactors types, such as PWR's and BWR's, are like the RBMK's.... because that is simply not true.
So which is it: Lie or lack of knowledge?
mkarnerfors 3 years ago
he was being sarcastic.
Rcrby525 3 years ago
Props on the music choice.
Davenergy 3 years ago
They are extremely expensive and inefficient - in full operation they produce no more energy than a medium sized truck engine driving a generator, that's why individual wind farms need hundreds of turbines.
Turitea 3 years ago
yeah so lets just pump more shit into the air how bout it?!
teenangst1318 3 years ago
Windmills make up their cost in 9-18 months, from that point on its all gravy.
monkeyman1140 3 years ago
More like 9-18 years!
HansThunderbolt 3 years ago
Sorry, but you don´t have any idea of the technique and the windenergy plants.
There will be a lot of ways to know better and to learn about. Try and you will be surprised.
readyforseed 3 years ago
howd u get up there???
itsbrad212 3 years ago
American Airlines, duh!
TSXboy26 3 years ago
rotflmao!!!
itsbrad212 3 years ago
You put on your Dutch clogs, smoke some endo and fly all your way up. It's the getting down that does the damage.
jwbeek 3 years ago
thats up there
246452 3 years ago
sweet video, the music reminded me of "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood".
boredmud 3 years ago
lmao, w is nothing, if u thought W, yes, tahats Watts. m is mili, M is MEGA.
Correct it will be 1.3MW.
Sixta16 3 years ago
we still use those kind of wind turbines? I thought we use those white cooler looking ones now.
montanahartz2008 3 years ago
i never knew they were so big and i dint know they were hollow either, bloody hell
dooneproductions 3 years ago 3
could you imagine slipping getting down.... ouch
supermick83 3 years ago
q grandee
saracantante 3 years ago
a company that makes those is building a plant in the city i live in!
shopper711928 3 years ago
guess it's pat metheny with Brad Meldau on piano?
MeinErsterFilm 3 years ago
wow. nice vid and nice music
michweck 3 years ago
the music sucks!
haykagame 3 years ago
holy shit at 1:10
diegodaudt 3 years ago
This is really awesome, thanks so much for sharing this.
HardDriver3950 3 years ago
Excellent video, better music!
Iberanarca 3 years ago
HAHA amagin it started raining hahahah GAME OVER
richy1yoker 3 years ago
You cant go on it if there is wind? xD
Feetjuhh 3 years ago
lol wanna bet, they make us go out there no matter what, works gotta get done. you are at least strapped for safety =)
jas17on 3 years ago
voltage generated is 690v, stepped up to 33Kv by a seperate transformer. Well it is here in the UK anyways
pla666 3 years ago 2
have u ever worked on the siemens 2.3's?
bbll120 3 years ago
I'm thinking the Song of Storms haha. I bet no one will get that.
RFB480 3 years ago 3
Go around, go around...
xlqex 3 years ago 3
A v ^ A v ^
xlqex 3 years ago 2
lol yeah exactly!
RFB480 3 years ago
Hah! They should employ Link to stand infront of a wind-turbine farm and play the Song of Storms every 5 minutes ^_^
Sapient192 3 years ago 2
lol
RFB480 3 years ago
I would like to know the Voltage; and I am guessing 3 phase; And it looked like cable tray? Anyway can anyone tell me the Voltage?
joemc111 3 years ago
Great vid thanks... Who care what you make per hour!! You get to do that job! That should be enough!
dabart 3 years ago 2
great! build some more 4 ever...dont wait to the oil is gone!
88pinokio88 3 years ago 2
oh wait nvm u guys were like workers
oh ok
ttcaptain201 3 years ago
wow how do u go up there i would flip out!!!! I would have like a heart atttack!!! I get a lil bit scared on kingda ka which is 458 feet in the air and goes 128 mph but i am securely strapped in how do u go up there and not get like blown off by the high powered winds at that height also
ttcaptain201 3 years ago 3
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computer animation
megaVotze 3 years ago
haha must take a while to get up, right?
broclops 3 years ago
Too cool, this ancient technology is going to give this generation a massive allowance. Cha Ching!! especially when oil just sucks the life outta all of us. Damn that black gold
encryptedsignal 3 years ago 6
It must be so scary being that high up! I'd never climb a windmill!
IlStudioso 3 years ago
This shot braught me a delightful warm calm and peaceful feeling.
btw I love windmills, have to get one, but the music... wow, it is really awesome!
8u5hm4574h 3 years ago 2
hi there... do you know about the white lee projeckt? im working there right now... it's a big one.... :-D
atvdk 3 years ago
Who's the guitarist? John Ambercrombie? Just a guess.
PoetryHound 3 years ago
iam unloading these in canada are they the siemens looks the same inside i hated having to hock up the cell to load ijn that tight spot lol
shithead2k7 3 years ago
What kind of salary do the wind mill technicians get? Any one out there know?
1unitedfan 3 years ago
It depends, if you work for a union - up to over 30 dollars an hour, depends on what state you work in and what union you work for. Non-Union up to 16 dollars an hour.
michaelamberskinner 3 years ago 2
Hey, In Denmark we get paid about 40-45 dollars a hour.
Dinahf 3 years ago
I heard you guys have higher taxes there though, I live in Canada and they're building shit loads here. We make about 20-25 dollars an hour but our taxes are lower so it balances out.
1unitedfan 3 years ago
I think you are right, i was in Colorade this spring and everything was mutch cheaper compared to Denmark.
We pay about 50% taxes...
Dinahf 3 years ago
im making like 18 dollars an hour right now and 70 dollars for gas each day
puppetcj 3 years ago
but instead we get more for our tax money :) so maybe we get more..
swelime 3 years ago 3
Amazing! I'd always wondered what the view from the top of a wind turbine is like! WOW!
KellySaunders5 3 years ago 5
I wanted to see a bit more of the 'innards'. Too bad it doesn't show much of the INSIDE of a Wind Turbine as the caption cunningly suggests. Perhaps 'View from the Top of a Bleedingly Tall Wind Turbine' might have been more honest!
X8T8X 3 years ago 2
haha
ndnboy321 3 years ago
That actually shows some of the insides. There is not too much to them, it shows some of the generator and inner workings. Really there is not much to them, the nacelle and the pedestal.
Twinkier1 3 years ago 4
its simple, there is a motor that generates power.
soxfan647 3 years ago
Umm, what? There's an alternator or generator blades, tower and a lot of cables. No motor, unless you mean the directional pointer.
techforumz 3 years ago 2
That windmill really gets blown!
compton3c 3 years ago
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unsightly and dangerous. other wind turbines are bettr.
makapuubodysurfing1 3 years ago
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Excuse me for thinking. But if we get thousands (maybe hundreds of millions) of wind turbines up and running all over the planet (especially in windy areas, are we not going to change the weather patterns. I mean, we are moving energy from the atmosphere and converting it to another form of energy. The energy is not destroyed, its simlpy moved. So, if we move billions upon billlions of units of energy from the weather system, don't you think that will change the weather?
Steveelox 4 years ago
.. did u put this comment on every video you could find about windmills :P
and i didnt give u the thumbs down
yaycookies1518 3 years ago 2
the wind can be consumed in one corner of the earth and due to high and low pressures and other forces the eatrh itself will generate wind.
fukitruki 3 years ago 2
They create less wind resistance that say... a brick shaped house, or... a TREE. Weather was never, and will never be a consistant thing, get used to it
Tomdabananaman 3 years ago
That's a retarded concern. Yes, lots of turbines would change the weather, but it will just be the opposite effect of deforestation, so it would help return things to the way they used to be.
I'm more concerned about the prohibitive cost of turbines for the very small amounts of power produced, and their propensity to kill workers and utterly destroy everything nearby when they fail.
jigglesnap 3 years ago
They dont destroy everything nearby, They pretty much just shatter. And the wont change the weather, They use the wind plus a small amount of the energy they produce to spin the blades which just move the air past.
NZKartsport 3 years ago
This feels like I'm watching Picture-Picture on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
mhirtes12 4 years ago
Du hast die Lucken falsch zu gemacht... erst 1, dann 2! ;-)
FroschDerKermit 4 years ago
I would like to talk about the Texas Corridor and what the authorities are going to do about the "rewilding" of all rural areas - moving all rural people to cities? They are going to "wall off" small towns and virtually make ghost towns so we cannot access our land.
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Alex Jones endgame part 6
calmemaggie 4 years ago
Alex Jones is a moron.
Summer6611 1 year ago
OMG dont look down!!! xD
Hejzwej 4 years ago 2
Judging by the poor spelling of those who oppose wind power, I'm guessing you haven't a clue what you are talking about.
Typical nimbys.
windpowerrocks 4 years ago 3
Screw you and your propaganda! I know that windfarms are the best thing since sliced bread. You wont put me off them by making me associate them with jazz music!
FREEDOMMMMmmmmm....
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How do can we destroy these monsters? I was hoping that a person could destroy the generator by shooting it with a deer rifle, but now it seems like I might be better to use a cutting torch to undermine the tower.
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excellent plan!
curlingblackly 4 years ago
siemens-
using history to solve future problems
justgotbackfromnam 4 years ago
PS. winergy gearboxes are teh sux
iLLNiSS 4 years ago
Does anyone know if they have brakes on these to stop them or do they just vary the pitch?
MilesB1975 4 years ago
there are brakes as well as pins in the brake disc for when your working inside the blades/hub
iLLNiSS 4 years ago 2
jazz music and wind turbine : excellent ideea
givanus28 4 years ago 5