Wind Generator blows up

[capo2k8]

Gears failed.

[xlr8up]

If you're on an island surrounded by the sea, a better alternative to costly, unsightly wind-farm turbines which produce very little compared to the little-known, highly profitable power derived from kinetic energy of undersea oceanic currents.

Search YouTube for "CETO Wave Power" an you'll see why ruining the landscape is simply not necessary...

Wave action energy is more economical, needs less maintenance, generates power at a fraction of the cost and less a couple of buoys, totally invisible.

[oldfart387]

@xlr8up Very interesting but they need to think through the problems first. Al Gore says one of his stupid remarks and 'wind-power is wonderful', maybe, but impractical. Then he mutters something about ethanol and everyone jumps on the band-wagon. In doing that, cattle breeders don't have enough feed, so grocery store prices sky-rocket!

Check all of the problems ahead of time OR just blow off Gore's 'suggestions'! I DO like your idea though. Very interesting!

[Aluciel286]

wasn't really the "explosion" i was thinking of, kinda just broke apart, still entertaining though

[frank0067]

what idiot built that

[ELECTROHOUSEMADE]

it hit the tree branches....

[ELECTECHNUT]

It's funny, I watched this video twice but I still didn't see any people dying on an oil-platform, or dead sea-life washing up on beaches. I didn't see any nuclear radiation that was going to destroy thousands of lives, and hundreds of miles of land, for thousands of years. I thought if I watched it twice I could see terrorists using oil-money to kill Americans. Hmm, maybe I'll watch it a third time.

[zapityzapzap]

At least it was only one of the smaller ones.

[quirpco]

Chuck Norris must've sneezed nearby.

[HaseltonT]

generators can only create energy in a small window of rpm's most wind turbines need 12-26 mph winds. The windsail receptor has a bigger window, thi is a perfect example why this design is soon to be obsolete.

[kel1981]

And hey presto, it's absolutely fucking wrecked!

[WhiteBoy7tnst]

Wow that thing sounded like a helicopter landing. LOL! and boom goes the dynamite

[Aqwert76]

this is what happens when chuck norris breathes

[saswsz]

way its not have auto highspeed break !!?

[DrMotorDude]

Renewable power is reliable, eh?

[omgomg113]

damm that must make alot of energy ^^

[Moonfighter583]

I rigged up something similar to this in my backyard next to the propane tank. Got a real good deal on some used pallets and some body panels from the salvage yard. Some wood screws and an extension cord to hook it up to our double-wide was the finishing touch. Not quite as hi-tech as the one in the video. But it did the same thing. Still havn't cleaned up the mess.

[MadHatterTruth]

dude if you slow it down in one frame you can see a ufo hit it omg

[lGe0l]

It's not fast mode?

[joeu5431]

did u hear when it was spinning and when it broke HOLY SHIT

[ZaveyBlackWolf]

Dureing that wind storm before the Wind Generator got destoryed, it must have powerd the hole country at that speed.

[o7Malh]

it's from Denmark..

[TheTwistedGypsy]

at 16 seconds you can see the blade take out the tower.....

[77799steve]

@TheTwistedGypsy YES! It looks like the blade broke first, then the generator blew! Is there a way to keep it from generating power during such a wind storm?

[rocknrollohio]

@77799steve A worker disabled the brake on the blade to keep it from turning too fast. expensive mistake

[flexairz]

@77799steve "Is there a way to keep it from generating power during such a wind storm?"

Which defeats the purpose of a wind generator.. and shows that wind generators are not the solution, there must always be a backup.

[Leopoldo888]

Yeah, renewables suck... let's drill, drill, drill.....

[cyberlee007]

What jmh11962 said. Get a clue the rest of you.

[jmh11962]

i love the way every jackass uses this video and claims its theirs. this vid has been around for a looonnngggg time. the feather/brake system malfunctioned before a storm came up, and nature had her way with it. those that are anti-renewable power love this video, god love their black hearts....

[forabuck380]

i would like to know how you knew it was going to blow up.... do you just sit around filming things waiting for them to blow up?

[Cyonk]

@forabuck380

Like jmh11962 said, IT's brake system was malfungtioned. So the company's tgought it's wised to filmed this to showed to insurance company. But some 'pro oil' guy took this and make bad statement about it.

[Underhill182]

Is it just me or did it break in 5 places at once?

[2180TomWoolley]

a sad laugh out loud. it's made of feathers

[coltsimmons]

fatality

[crackedoutclown]

SWEET!!!

[yougonnamind]

that was some shit!

[TriClydesdale]

Look... this IS OUR FUTURE. The teleprompter reader president said so. So suck it up and don't use any electricity when the wind isn't blowing over 5mph.

[bjhorton2005]

I have seen this on T.V. the safety brake failed, and the tower was pushed to it's limits. The actual fault was the torsion twisted the tower.

[tvicena]

over run caused the failure..the tower held untill after the turbine became unbalanced

[texasdustfart]

The green these wind turbines produce is money. As a resident of west Texas I see every day the money generated by the emplacement, maintainence, and revenue generated these things bring in. Bonus is our electric bill just lowered. This is one failing, there are thousands that do not fail and make money. meanwhile we save the petrol to run our tanks and planes.

[SHMUJEW]

There is more than enough oil to be found in the contiguous USA to provide energy for many years, unfortunately the green fascists do not want any exploration done and wish to tax the middle class out of existence to further their dictatorial Aims

[CMwangss]

Dude, a fuckin windmill blew up, get over it.

[Underhill182]

Stick fan in ground. Let wind do the work.

[CTOL1]

Marcellus Jacobs, quite THE pioneer of wind generators used Stika Spruce for his blades, straight grained, he covered them in an aluminum and pitch paint, of course his versions had automatic counter weighted feathering propeller blades,. Some of his units are still running save for some replacement brushes made from a dual carbon stack to knock down R.F noise. His machines were the conventional DC type but had high output at low speeds. Brakes on units do not take the load off the blades

[jrmyamnda]

I think one of the blades actually hit the tower. The blades 'flex' when the wind hits them. Combine that with excessive wind and failed brakes, and... boom!

[AnthraxByEmail]

take that hippies!!!

[breebabe235]

say the special on this the breaks that keep from excerting speed malfunctioned

[78349748]

It broke

[itsCATURAY]

omg what happened to it? overload?

[BigFishingShop]

Gives new meaning to blowing in the wind lol ha ha ha

uh... never mind.

[DeanC993]

why cant vestas or ge make somemthing that will stop the thing from going to fast?

[elkvis]

They put governor units on these things that vary the pitch of the blades according to wind speed, but as I understand it, the governor on this windmill failed and allowed the rotor to spin out of control.

[DeanC993]

o, thanks for the info

[quaffer22]

Stop being cheap. Make 'em last...

Use Steel !! Or Aluminum, fgs.

[dboren1966]

steel is too heavy, and aluminum is not strong enough. fiberglass is the cheapest of a very limited number of substances that are light and strong enough too make the blades possible. what elkvis said about the generator is true. the brakes most likely failed and the rotor lock(which grips the gears on the brake) was most likely stripped and that resulted in the uncontrollable speed. also when the wind gets above 15 or 20 m/s the generator shuts down and wont spin. but im no expert...

[Sdumn]

:) nice hahaha

that isnt cheap...

[peckerwood70]

When the breaks go out on these things this is what happens. The brakes will keep them under a certain RPM so they don't come apart.

[argenteum]

It was *clearly* a controlled demolition.

Inside job!

[baalaagaa]

Jews did wind turbine

[g00dsir555]

well it produced a shitload of power at least

[stefpatras]

@g00dsir555 lol, but its not like that, max speed isn't equal to max power gain ;)

[livai007]

wtf !!

[Alanozitch]

The braking system on the generator failed causing it to spin too fast.

[mowtown23]

Oh shit!

[SROSELLI]

that looked pretty dangerous.

just hope that nobody was hurt

[Comochingas]

How would Vladimir Putin handle this situation?

[gthreek]

He would just cross his arms and tell the wind to slow down.

[Trendkillertrendy]

omfg lol

[CVRealMan]

P-H-A-I-L!

[SROSELLI]

those windmills aren,t meant to spin that fast

[CVRealMan]

no i know but its still funny, and you would think that there is some fail safe brake system, no?

[daviclond]

yes if only there was one that had been constantly mentioned on this page.......

[kingdomboost]

A vid by dborup shows an excellent slow mo. Search under "Vestas win fail".

[ed061]

"Coming to a neighbourhood near you"..... I feel safer already...

[natemoore]

Good ole safe nuclear power.

[alohasonns]

That thing must have been powering Al Gores home. It just couldn't turn fast enough to keep up with the Gore household demand!

[unobombers]

wow really nice

[techforumz]

The thing is they all break at the same time. It was probably not a collision. It looks like the alternator locked up while the tower was at very high speeds. Must've been a surge, cuz every one of those powers about a thousand houses. That much power suddenly stopping will for sure cause a temporary lack of power. (AKA: brownout)

[TRoss240]

right, or a blade went back and hit the stalk, hence it snapping off at blade length. if the thing locked up, more than likely the inside would have twisted and the blades wouldnt have fallen of.  i say collision

[Weatherlawyer]

Looked like it exploded at the hub. The braking mechanism rather than shedding a prong. Or it was shot.

[mrcuddles100]

jesus christ now we have conspiracy theories about wind turbines

[cdltpx]

That was an incredible video I have never seen anything like that. Knowing how much effort goes into one of those I feel for you.

[Nojgrossnickler]

This is disgusting. There are so many better designs. Makes me think they wanted them to fail in the first place.

[aflacduky]

well there went 230,000$

[ChristianRonin]

this video is unsettling XD

my father works on windturbines exactly like these in the US...

He told me about this and wow... I am glad no one was in there when this happened...

[janvantonder]

That sucks... But by comparison Chernobyl sucked more.

[hayesy316]

The wind turbine was being run by an inept Communist government too?

[HenrikOlsen]

Not so much a matter of getting things wrong, instead a matter of bad timing for getting two mechanical faults at the same time as unusually high winds.

The mechanism for turning the top had failed as well as the main brake, which is why they knew it would fail badly in the high wind and where ready with a camera.

[Weatherlawyer]

Ah, I was wondering why the camera was ready and centred.

I wonder how many are just lucky they haven't blown yet. We'll never know.

[webkinzluver11]

They knew it was going to blow up because they couldnt turn it off, so they decided to catch it on camera, i would be too freaked out to stand by it!!

[subach]

The Gore isn't going to happy about this...

[SSparks555]

You can clearly see one of the blades hitting the tower, which caused the failure. Far too much wind for the design, I think. If it had a variable prop. it should have adjusted to the high winds. Even with the damage, it looks salvagable. Im sure the generator survived, its just a matter of replacing the rest of the assembly.

[mousepotato64]

"its just a matter of replacing the rest of the assembly."

And just who is supposed to pay for the replacement? That's the question.

And actually if you can stop the vid at precisely the right moment, you will see a blade deteriorating at about 11o'clock then coming around and hitting the tower. The truth is there is a lot of demand for wind power right now and there will be lot's of shoddy workmanship and poor design in anything that generates money.. I mean power, w/e same thing.

[vicmeuk]

I think the blades brake had failed on this turbine resulting the Turbine to spiral into a dangerous level of speed!

[1stnorthernlight]

Seemed to be overspeeding eh? Noticed that the engineers van was already there so there is a 90% chance it was finger trouble. In high winds the blades need to be put into coarse pitch (edge on to the wind). There was once a yachties model called Windbugger. In a squall a blade flew off and going at about 200mph went straight through a sailors chest killing him. They don't make this brand anymore. All machinery can be dangerous.

[lewisreford]

omg! thats just tuff luk! bet that was expencive to fix!

[vicmeuk]

You been filming out my backdoor again ben? lol