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  • Thanks for showing, sadly I had the volume on full blast and bang...

  • @555Lood555 your speaker blew?

  • Why did you have to add that sound affect?

  • The noise is not the noise of the wind mill

  • Cool Thanks for showing it

  • close to my home are standing one of the largest windmills in the world, they are standing in germany near the Eemshaven. Search on internet.

  • To see what anti-windies are really like, see my 'Wind Nimby Rant' film.

  • wow these things are awsome they burn blow up kill flying animals waste space create risky jobs for people to die in create law suites and create energy that i will waste playing video games :]

  • @julioamezaga Its better than coal that give men black lung and blows up when minning it poisons the water around the mines has the companies minning it bully and lie to people so when they suie the companies they loose they don't get what they should destroys the ecosystem and eats up mountins so i'd say we are all and all better with turbins so you can play videogames

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  • it is powering more than 10 thousand houses.

  • wind turbine farm i passed one in texas they weren't that big but there was over 80 dotting the hillsides.

  • the noise here is of your low cost camcorder that has microphone whistle. Put some foam over the microphone to block the noise.

  • sounds like you looped the sound on this vid.

  • This is a GE 1.5 MW and it is only loud if you are inside it while it is running. I know, because I commission them. It is 287 feet tall and the blades are 90 feet long. They are never installed directly next to a residence so when people say they are, ask for a pic! DB at bottom of tower is less than 35db! So, how can it travel and increase? Some people are just RETARDED!

  • OMG! thats in sweetwater! I have a video on my account of the same area of wind turbines!

  • That lady needs a serious doctor or to sleep next to a coal plant or a natural gas one I think they should force her to.

  • We are soon getting a wind farm in my county. I am very excited about it. I hope the construction will start soon. Of course, we do have some idiots protesting the farm.

  • I am not extremely good at Identifying the Turbine by looking at it yet, but I think this might be a Bonus turbine they are huge. we have a 450Kilowatt in our shop and it took 3 Fork lifts to get it there. The Mechanic crew is rebuilding the gearbox and I am rewireing the Control box. This way we update all of the outdated Analog controls and put in a New digital PLC interface to control the power equipment. These are usually 3 phase and range anywhere from 400V to 600V AC Up to 150' Tall

  • @redyoshi1985 Definitly not a bonus turbine. They have cylindrical Nacelles. It is an Enron unit that was purchased by General Electric after Enron went under. There are hundreds of them west of Abilene in Texas. That clanging noise is from the doors seen on th rotor. they fall open as it turns toward the ground then slam shut at the top. Sometimes they fall off.

  • That door thing just doesn't seem safe.. as tall as it is.. Could you imagine a head shot after one of those doors falls off.. OMG

  • @redyoshi1985 not a bonus. they were bought by Siemens and have "cigar" nacelles. this looks like an Enron, which is now GE.

  • wow over 30 feet try over 100 feet and 100 feet is for the small windmills

  • updated

  • have you been under one of these?

    pretty scary...

  • it doesn't look very big from far away, but if you get closer and climb on it, then its very big.

  • nice camera!

  • Why only 3 blades? Wouldn't 4 or more blades be more effective?

  • because it can only hold four. look at the circumfrence in the center, it cant support a 3rd blade

  • nope

  • Probably, but the fourth (or even fifth) wing would lower the efficiency per wing.

    While they can continue increasing the size if the wings as needed, they won't start adding more blades. Currently the longest wings that I know of are around 60m long (~180 ft) giving that generation a 120m (~360 ft) diameter. If I recall those are for 4-5MW turbines.

  • you would think....but more blades mean more weight. Too much weight up top will make it unstable and liable to fall over in high winds.

  • I now realize where all this wind is coming from. It's these Giant Fans going up everywhere!! I bet it's these commie-alqada terrorists! They turn these fans on "High" and blow up some wind storms, tornados and hurricanes. Now that America has a muslim "green" president....he gonna blow the USA clean off the Earth!!!!

  • i dont know why this is voted thumbs-down. it's hilarious.

  • the school i am going at has one of these "TURBINES" its a GE 1.5 Megawatt. the blades are 121 feet long, the "NACELLE" or box as you call it is larger than a single stall garage, quite a bit bigger then your van. and the turbine is 280 feet to the top of the nacelle. just some friendly help

  • man the body is 405 feet tall, the blades are a 110 foot long and the cell of the windmill is 15 feet tall.....u made it seem like it was something you could fit in the back of a pickup

  • Almost.  I worked on that turbine. It's 1.5 megawatts, just over 300 ft tall, and the blades are about 120 ft long.

  • Tell us about your camera? which zoom lens you have ?

  • Its a Canon Powershot S2IS 5.0 Megga pixel its fairly old now but does quite well its has a 12x Optical zoom. Canon makes newer one I believe they have the S5IS out now... still a 12x optical zoom but more megapixels.

  • Best ask Vestas Group IT for one of the new camera then to take more shots with

  • ok your about 200 ft of there man, there 300 ft tall, the blades are 75 ft long so your 100 ft.....dont think thats gonna work

  • Just was told of newer 400 to 500 feet high , 2 MEG. I would appreciate informative comments, thank you.

  • That one hell of a zoom your camera has...

  • I pass 'em heading through Palm Springs. You need to get a car or truck in the frame, at the base of the thing, to really appreciate how big it are.

  • oh gawd...thats high...

    i get goosebumps already and i'm only LOOKING at it. brrrrrrr!!!

    still really cool though

  • thay ar neet

  • i wold not go in side of them thats creapy the blads do have doors on them with bars. CREAPY !!!

  • i saw one of these one night and thay had bunch of them and one windmill looked creepy at night because one of them have 3 cruley blades on it and it gave me goose bumps ...

  • well...they are very strict about allowing "civilians" onto them....i am not exaggerating when i say this but there is about a million ways to die in or on a wind turbine....i'm about to start working on them again for my 5th summer in a row...great paying job for a college guy like me :-D

  • nice wind sound of software!!!

  • thx perfect vid, i wanted to see how much noise it actually makes and how it is in motion

  • Accually they don't make that much noise. What you hear here is the wind... by themselves they are very quiet

  • NOT quiet! According to the EPA 'noise levels above 45dB disturb sleep & most people can't sleep above noise levels of 70 dB.' Typical turbine is 35-45 db at 350m. Cars: 30mph avg 35 db at 100m. Bedrooms at night: 20-30 db. The 'whoop whoop' from wind farms create a low frequency drumming that penetrates walls & rattles window frames a kilometer away, keeping many awake at night. Some readings show 75 decibels at peak. This is about the amount of noise coming from a washing machine at 10m.

  • @metaspherz ,

    You are a retard! This is a GE 1.5 and your numbers are off big time! Dummy!

  • @Chukers Maybe the reason that they are quiet without wind is because without wind they aren't turning. Just kidding. Just kidding. Great video.

  • @Chukers They do, however, make very low vibrational noises, which can cause a multitude of health problems in sensitive issues. You should Google search it. It's really interesting, and very unfortunate for those who have to live close to turbines.

  • those blades are 42.5 meters longs and the towers are 275 feet tall the only way to get into them is to either work for GE owner of the turbine or the company that builds the blades like me

  • My dad lives in Abilene, and we go out to the windfarms there off of 277 everytime we go. How do you get to climb in them? The look like private property and the doors on the towers locked? I'd love to get inside one...

  • I was going to climb the ones south of Sweetwater, but I didn't get to.

  • i am a college student but i climb turbines during the summer...ive climbed the ones in Trent, the ones south of sweetwater, some of the ones by abilene on 277, and the ones north of snyder in Fluvanna...tehy are very tall but it's even a better view from the inside when you look straight up or down....i'll post some videos sometime soon of me on top of one!

  • Those blades are likely 120 feet long, or near that. The tower itself is probably close to 300 feet. (Saw some of these up close when I was in Sweetwater TX... maybe even this one. How close was this to I-20?)

  • If you take S. 14th street ofof abilene heading west that is Hwy 277 it was roughly 30 to 45 minutes from abilene... not for sure... its been a while since I went.

  • Yea they're on 277. If you go to San Angelo from Abilene you'll see em.

  • I would

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