Inside a wind turbine

http://overfishing.org (go and have a look to read about fish and water). Inside a wind turbine, windmill and shots from a Siemens 1.3MW (megawatt) turbine.

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[Kookas]

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

[pepijnk]

@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.

[Ecm51]

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.

[pepijnk]

Glad you like it :-)

[kjg3000]

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

[leamyelectricinc1]

very cool.

[ccoraxfan]

@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.

[rickcain2320]

@ccoraxfan

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.

[Kookas]

@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.

[roddmadd]

@pepijnk Man those 1.3 sure look crowded what is the rotor size on them.

[ccoraxfan]

@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.

[SmallWindTurbines]

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Peace, Sam