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  • You would think with more modern ones they could design in a failsafe that when the brakes fail, the turbine could turn itself 90 degrees to the wind where it could turn freely but not at excessive speeds until it could be fixed.

  • wow

  • when this baby hits 88mph... you're going to see some serious shit

  • 240p... Yet we meet again.

    once I saw HD movies... then i toke an arrow to the knee...

  • imagine the readings on the windwill it must have benn creating a hell of alot of power

  • Danish windmill STRONG!!!

  • what a shitty design, it should at least have blades that can angle like a helicopter so in high wind it doesn't spin so fast, and low wind it can get more torque.

  • @infinitewobdrahpa it's only happend once..

  • @infinitewobdrahpa It was a brake failure, not the wing design.

  • it just bitch slapped itself

  • This wind turbine thought it could counteract Earth's rotation. It was wrong.

  • 7 people probably depend on the turbine of the wind turbine: D

  • WTF jeg vidste ikk' at de kunne gå så hurtigt. 0_o?

  • Now I'm going to have nitemares about getting hit with exploding windmills.

  • 100000000 de watts

  • Stupid.. should turn it off...

  • @Ne0Que Yeah they tried that.... Brakes didn't work...

  • Well, it probably made alot of power before it colapsed, so it's all okay...

  • This Windturbine collapse was on Life After People: Holiday Hell. :D

  • i remember i saw this on the news

    and btw think about how big a windmill is

    and i live in Denmark it could had hit with that close distances

  • "looks like a storm, should i turn the brakes on?" "holy crap bob, look at all the power turbine #43 is producing, lets see what happens--never mind...."

  • I wonder how much energy it made before it turned itself off permanantly.

  • evry wind mil has got brakes to stop it during af storm they falid her

  • That is hilarious!

  • I remember watching this incident on Danish television. Actually the wind blew so hard that the wings were bended into the mill tower, which is why the tower breaks and falls against the wind.

  • windmills don't just break into pieces like that

  • @thewordofnotch

    So what your saying is that the government planted explosives in it and deliberately blew it up, but waited for a storm to come along and make it look like an accident.....? lol

  • Press 4 to see the explosion.

  • blades picked up resonance vibration that made it blow up

  • Press 4.

  • I'm not a fan.

  • imagine u're in front of it :D

  • DECAPITATION!!!

    

  • anyone tried___ w w w diymagneticmotor com ?

  • and CUT!

  • the feathering failed

  • why didnt it put on the brakes and rotate the blades to the direction of least wind resistance like they normally do in conditions they can't handle? i doubt it was even producing electricity, if it was it would have burnt a fuse or the alternator anyways.

  • Cool!

  • Ok.. that's not a collapse.. that's an explosion and what an explosion it was!!! :)

  • one thing is missing: A bird which is flying in there.

  • this is much more common than people think....

    Question: Why do you think so many wind turbines are stationary, even in high wind areas?

    Answer: Because its really hard to maintain them as the areas they are built on are inaccessable to repair and maintainance machinery. It isnt cost effective to repeair every turbine, which means that at any one time, less than 30% of all turbines in a wind farm are active.

  • Emo wind turbine!

    it destroyed itself!

  • Keep pressing '4' on your keyboard, insane replay action!

  • Vestas said the emergency services, it went as expected: fiberglass in the mill succumbed to the pressure and broke. Wreckage and wing debris were scattered over most of the security area that police had created.

    Vestas had engineers up in the mill this morning, when the turbine's braking system failed and they were scrambling to get out, writes jp.dk

    Vestas is now in the area and are responsible for cleanup in the safety zone, said Falck's (danish emergency department) security manager.

  • A wind turbine from Vestas has exploded and broken in half outside the small village Halling, located between Hadsten and Hornslet in Jutland. Police had established a safety zone of 400 meters, so no one is hurt.

    The mill, which was rampant, and drove in a frantic pace, suddenly exploded into smithereens with a bang. There is now only one third of the mill and back rest are scattered throughout the area, tells TV 2 Østjyllands reporter Donald Livonia, who was on the spot.

  • I can tell you all, that this video 100% for real. I'm from Denmark and saw it in the news. It blew up near a small town called Hornslet . The official Danish news-station article translated to English: A wind turbine from Vestas has exploded and broken in half outside the small village Halling, located between Hadsten and Hornslet in Jutland. Police had established a safety zone of 400 meters, so no one is hurt. (continued)

  • @djhertzum I live about 20 min. away from where that happend! and have family in Halling! so yeah take it from me it's 100% true!

  • How are the people in this Danish town coping with the resulting wind spill? Oh, wait, never mind.

  • This to me seems fake because it seems like an explosion went off because it didnt shread

    Also how did the top to the turbine burst like it did...

  • @shortyjk95

    I can't explain any of that, but it most certainly isn't fake. It was all over the news here when it happened. I have never really seen a windmill collapse myself, so I don't know how it's "supposed" to look. ;)

  • Epic failure at 0:17 holy shit!

  • I you have to shut them down when the wind is up. What a fraud. No wonder Energy is getting expensive

  • Did Chuck Norris fart :)

  • what was it made out of? paper?

  • It was programmed to self-destruct!

  • Made In China

  • @BamBooUK ...or not.

  • ohh shit xD

  • lol, it decapitated itself

  • hassan CHOP!

  • Wind: THIS IS SPARTA! 

  • I was just waiting for the propeller to fly off into the air haha

  • This is the great liberal idea?? Not surprising that it fell to pieces!

  • ahhhh okay.... who films windturbines???? O.o

  • green fail again...

  • Look at it close slow it down and you will the tower that supports it causes the destruction it twisted and the blades struck and the blades broke off I could be wrong the blades could have given also but for sure they struck the tower.

  • @Sconiers I think you are correct, the tower bent forward from the pressure and when one blade hit the tower because of this they all disintegrated due to the shock going through the entire prop.

    Its pretty clear that the control system failed since they normally turn INTO the wind and brake rotation when there's a storm.

  • hmmm... brake failure? Do the blades tilt to adjust for high wind? or is braking a function of rotor rpm reaching a critical point before being stopped or slowed? Either way, it was a major malfunction.

  • That was pretty cool you have to admit.

  • They have brakes that will normally stop this type of thing from happening. Unfortunately, the braking system on this one was controlled by a Dell computer, and it died

  • the true believers....the desperate enviromentalists...the greenies who see their carbon credit world crumble in the face of scientific fact....and call the proof blasphemy as if it were a religion.

    look at the junk fail...one after the other>>>>

    this excuse for technology has been hoisted on the power-buying public since 1932 with Absolutely no result. NONE...your power bills increase regardless. land time effort money is wasted on EPIC FAIL.

    they never pay off....EVER

    dream on, greenies

  • @s6u6r6f6 How about invading soveriegn countries and killing a million of the populace - no problem when oils involved.

    How about poluting thousands of rivers and streams and inshore waterways, compromising the water we drink and the food we eat - no problem for oil.

    How about promoting damaging methods of farming in order to sell chemicals made from oil that we dont really need.

    Oil companies also started the prohibition and banned hemp.

    Apart from that oil is great.

  • @hablerz

    *ssssssp* .........paaaaahhhhhhhhh.....

    hemp...it all comes down to hemp for you greenies.

    Oil gets public transportation going so you can take it to your broom and mop job.....the end result of your exposure to public education. Keep at it hablerz...there is a whole gamut of new green taxes, initiatives, fees and penalties coming up for citizens like you.

    its called cap and trade.... See the pinwheel go! Oh its so environmentally friendly!

  • @s6u6r6f6 Dont pigeon hole me you ignoramous , i dont smoke hemp i merely suggest thats its far better to grow a product that produces almost everything oil does and requires no fertilzers or pesticides.

    Tell me what good it does to buy billions of barrels of oil and enrich Saudi Arabia ? what good is it to be totally rellient on a few countries for most of our energy needs?

    Any country thats serious about its economy and national interest really should be self sufficient in energy.

  • @s6u6r6f6 Oil is only our number one fuel because it was manipulated to be so back in the early 20th century by the oil companies.

    Oils great but sooner or later its going to run out anyway so lets make the change while we can. It would only benefit the economy.

    Btw i dont agree with carbon taxes , or any green taxes , or green fascism its clearly all a scam.

    When you start throwing insults around its because you have no cogent argument to make.

  • @s6u6r6f6and what about the marine Life or that oil disaster in Florida! Oil is f**k up, you a like a caveman, "uk uk.. me brun oil and make fire and heat...uk uk me lik fire" well you know! bruning things is not the ONLY!!!! way too make power a thing Humans only are beginning to lean! and greenies you say!! but have you ever wondered where you food coms from? (no it dosent fall from the sky!)

  • @s6u6r6f6 Im sure we can manage to erect a few windmills when all is said and done.

    I havent even mentioned the plastic pollution that oil created.

  • chuck norris sneezed on it

  • There was a storm. The other windmills shut down due to high winds. This one didn't. They knew it would fail, and it did. It wasn't just "doing it's thing" and failed. It was a unusual event that almost never happens.

  • and in the end...the overpaid officials all drive out to the site of the "accident" and piss away the money in gasoline for their cars to get there in 2 hours that it took this piece of shit turbine three months to save.

    what a circus!

    send in the CLOWNS !

    hey everybody! LOOK AT ALL THE OTHER JUNK GOING TO HELL IN A HANDBASKET FOR YOUR VIEWING PLEASURE! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

  • @s6u6r6f6 Well we have had no trouble planting dozens of oil rigs in the most obscure locations in the world then drilling thousands of feet into the sea floor.

    How about building a 2000 mile long pipeline - again no problem when its for oil.

    How about building dozens of refineries that produce toxic waste that blow up every once in a while.

    How about building the biggest ships, 500 000 tons , to carry oil halfway across the world - again no problem as its for oil.

  • Emo wind turbine

  • I'd say the main failure was in the blade ptch adjustment - the blades went into superfine pitch (the props on the Stratocruiser had a bad habit of doing the same thing). Then the brake which was supposed to prevent an overspeed failed as well.

  • Cohort Manufacturing Ltd - Complete Brakes and Spare Parts.

  • deze moet je dus niet hebben

  • was this on algores wind farm?

  • I don't think collapses is the right word, makes it seem peaceful. Destroyed more like

  • was that the real explosion?

  • @johnairlines8 Yep. Not like the ones you see on the Michael Bay movies.

  • that was well over 300 mps

  • Is there any way to feather those blades? Or heck while were at it, reverse them? Electromagnetic braking is one thing... but why not use the wind itself to stop the rotation?

  • That was probably the actual failure, the blades failed to feather.

  • yeah. lets put these up all over the united states.....good idea greenies, huh?

  • @s6u6r6f6 Yeah, because this is much more dangerous then nuclear power! This accident affected way more people then Chernobyl...! *sarcasm*

  • I hate these ugly things because they slaughter 1000's of Eagles in the spinning blades.

  • @disgustedAmerican1 is that true? why would eagles fly toward a stationary rotating propeller?

  • @disgustedAmerican1

    thousands?

    what's the timescale of that? per year?

    if it's a year, then that's at least 2.7 eagles per day, so you'd baisically have a heap of rotten carcasses after a week or so....

    hmm...something's amiss, perhaps the fact that that doesen't actually happen?

  • You are extrememly retarded if you think that was made out of card board . It is made of fiber glass , metal, and wood . It is made of sterdy products unlike cardboard . THink of it's logic... it wouldn't stand as lond as the one in the video . God . Educationa & epople today !

  • @CheerFlyer98

    "Educationa & epople today!"

    I see the 'education' part worked out well, good luck with that.

    (I know it was only a typo. At least, I hope so...)

  • I think its cardboard

  • that looks like carbon fiber.

  • No its glass fiber.

  • but its glass fiber

  • one things for sure, that baby was producing some serious electricity before it blew up.

  • @mark28map no serious electrical generation is produced by the wind turbine. it takes up too much property to build, too much maintenence to keep going, too many replications using both to equal the simplest 'normal' nuclear oil fired or coal generation.

    Wind turbines have been around since the days of the rural electrification agency in the 30's without much technological improvement besides size. Its inefficent pipe dream that makes greenies feel good.

    this video explains it all.

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  • @s6u6r6f6 so false i don't even know where to begin.

  • @ben22285

    o please you bleeding heart greenie...

    please begin! begin!

    start where your power bills have been decreased ...and go from there.

    EPIC FAIL.

    EPIC WASTE OF YOUR MISERABLE EUROs

    EPIC PIPE DREAM

    please...I really want to hear it....no realyy, I do!

    you fucking clown

  • @s6u6r6f6 How old are you my little troll? You sound like an angry little troll indeed, like you have a personal vendetta against wind. Did you have a death in the family caused by the migraine headaches turbines supposedly produce? Or maybe you just watch a little too much Glenn Beck or Sean Hannity like so many other sad, unfortunate little trolls in this country? Sigh...

  • @ben22285

    "so false i don't even know where to begin."

    Begin Ben Begin!.

    explain how the land has been saved by putting up 200 towers and connecting them to an electrical grid.

    begin where solar and wind generation has reduced your power bill.

    begin perhaps with the rebuttal of wind generation taking more maintenance and costing more to deliver than any other power generation source.

    explain failures that you can see >>>>>>>>

    Buffet, John Deer...everybody is jumping off this green dream

  • @s6u6r6f6 oh yeah, I see you actually are a Glenn Beck fan just as I assumed. Look up the video "Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" Rally - Interviews With Participants." Were you one of those people?!?!

  • @ben22285 yes ben explain to s6u6r6f6, because putting fuel generated electricity to an electrical grid has been keeping the prices clearly down.

    Denmark is SOOO jumping off eolic power. putting a machine in the sun and that machine produces electricity!!!!!!! how is that good??the right thing to do is to buy and import large amount of a thing that makes that machine produce electricity,that is way cheaper. luckily there are people like srfr6rf6f6rf6fr6rf6rf6rf6rf6rf­6rfrf6 to explain us that

  • @jh5kl

    stay in Denmark, prince.

    ....putting a machine in the sun !

    ....and that machine produces electricity !

    What a noble piece of work is a greenie. In comport and revelence: how like a god! Whereupon presented with a dream...how tightly he holds it. How desperately he defends it...

    even at its most worthless.

    keeping his eolic powder clearly down in its prices.

    What ho! Is thereby Denmark the envy of the world !

    ..............................­.........

  • @s6u6r6f6 and you said nothing. just: greenies are bad (actually greenies are good for your health, brocoli etc...

    you princess.

  • @s6u6r6f6 Ýou get cost eficiencys from scalling up, small wind farms here and there dont really help the grid that much and cost alot to maintain ect. A large farm of 100 turbines offshore would be far more efficient with regards to constant power production and ease of maintainence.

    Accidents at oil refineries happen every day plus there are many hidden costs that the government i.e you and i have to pay for.

  • @hablerz

    multiply the probability of failure....even if that failure is 5 percent.....times 100.

    its still Maintenance hog with a short lifespan.

    then put the whole grid in THE NORTH SEA. hell of a stable place to put an electrical generation station....in the North Sea....hey, no maintenance problems there, huh?

    Easy to get to, calm environment, oh just a fucking IDEAL location, huh?

    what are you people THINKING

  • @mark28map 1.21 gigawatts!

  • @mark28map I wanted to post a comment just like that

  • @mark28map It was sped up

  • @mark28map no it wasnt. windmills are designed to run as effective as possible, thats why they have breaks.

  • @mark28map not if its brake failed, then it would just short circuit

  • It is not a fake. I have a friend that works for a company setting

    up and maintaining windturbines. He told me, that this

    happens when the large disk break does not work. As you can

    see, it is a very important part.

    Given the slow rpm they usually operate at, it is a miracle

    that the thing didn´t break earlier.

  • sure, it spins fast, but when you think about the fact that these rotor blades are 60+ meters long? HOLY SHIIIT!

  • Like seeing a helicopter rotor touch the floor!

  • ... just 15 times as long :S

  • @gjaddajg

    The rotor tips were well beyond the sound of speed!

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  • No.... The wind is not very strong here. Here what it happens:

    Wind was up to 100kmph (60mph). If you wach frame by frame, you will see that in 0:16, you have the one rotor blade break appart. Because it was very fast rotation, the rest of rotor was very unbalanced. The centripetal force made second blade hit the pole. Third blade was ruined by inertion from stopping after hit. And the pole colapsed due to impact from blade coused overweight. Solution: Make good brakes in the future! :D

  • Wind speed was not a big factor hear, brake failure was the deciding factor, wind appears to be in the 50 to 60 knot range here, nothing special

  • WOAH lol that will produce a load of energy

  • trop fragile y as un problême de fabrication

  • I have seen so many people complain about wind turbines being un fix for use. 1 thing pople need to look at it how many are breaking vs. how many are not

  • "Yay, we're getting so much free energy!" *BOOM!*

  • What were the wind speeds when this happened?

  • 390 mph al LEAST!

  • I don't think so guy. The only winds that reach speeds over 300 mph over land are tornados. If you ever saw a super cell developing a tornado, you can see cloud developing rapid rotation. Or you might see a disc shaped cloud turning rapidly before a tornado descends. The clouds in this video are not moving that fast. The most powerful hurricane recorded, Hurricane Rita came close to 300 mph over warm waters. Neither of those types of conditions are given here. Probably wind was < 150 mph

  • We don't have tornados in Denmark..

  • So, I'll bet that you neither ever have winds that even get close to 300 mph.

    But what I really want to know is, why did this wind mill fail. The manufacturers must have had engineers who did a failure analysis.

  • Who was the manufacterer?

  • It was not an experiment.

    It reached about 1000 km/h... that's what I've been told

  • This happened in Denmark, the brakes did not work. It has been shown on discoverys "freaky accidents" program.

  • well...thats gonna take alot of duct tape to fix

  • People... it was an accident, not some kind of a test! I think it was the brakes that didn't work well.

  • i bet they got a shit load of power those last minutes :P

  • Not at all.

  • It stops producing energy when wind reaches 20 meter/sec.

    That's what I've been told.

  • rew

  • I think it was an experiment.

  • im pretty sure your right, they probably had to test for like max speed numbers, thats also why they filmed.

  • i don't think so. and if it was, it was a very expen$ive one.

  • it wasnt

  • That could have been deadly

  • They weren't feathering blades by the looks of it. Nothing to reduce the drag or to stop the thing from moving in that situation.

  • It´s not fake, it wars under repire and then the brake failure, it wars not supposed to gernarate power at this time.

  • Ok, it's fake, it's not fake...So who knows what the hell happened? If it was going that fast, it probably was not engaged to the dynamo (which provides resistance). Clutch failure? Electrical failure of the generator?

  • i wonder how many Kw it generated just before the breakdown :O

  • Det ser sygt ud. Den måde den kolapser på.

  • its not fake, i live near it. Århus

  • It isn't fake.

  • No it isn't fake. I live in denmark and this video has been in the news

  • DUDE! FRICKIN' SWEET!!! :D

  • Quando tuo figlio creperà di tumore per le nanopolveri prodotte da un termovalorizzatore,

    forse apprezzerai meglio le qualità di un generatore eolico.

  • where is it on fyn or jylland or sjæland hvor er det henne fyn eller jyland eller sjæland

  • Tæt ved Hornslet mellem Randers og Århus.

  • Holy shit @_@

  • why are they?

  • They actually need less cost in energy terms to build and maintain them than coal plants, per unit of power generated. Do you think coal and oil power stations don't need constant maintenance and have a finite life span? Not even taking into account the thousands of tonnes of fuel they get through.

  • geothermal baby geothermal

  • xD Lol that was FUNNY!

  • If you blinked, you will have missed the UFO crashing into the blades of the turbine!

  • It blowed up REAL good...

  • 0:16 :D:D