Building a Wind Turbine

A video record of the new Vestas v82 wind turbine erected on the St. Olaf campus in Northfield Minnesota

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• Olaf
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[33ahall]

How many megawatts is this turbine? And how long does it take to build one? 

[eltechno]

@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

[Thymonico]

Hey! That second tune has a norwegian fiddle in it! :D

[eltechno]

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.

[FarOutFarSpace]

What is this music? It make me feel like I'm watching a church service for the god of wind. lol

[eltechno]

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.)

[SenorSpode]

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.

[aprillovett2]

Amazing o:

[SenorSpode]

@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]

@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]

@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.

[MultiMrsmiley]

On to the next one....

[graham640]

very good video beautiful music well shoot

[frank2398]

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!