PYCO Wind Turbine Construction Timelapse (short)

This is the short version timelapse of one of the PYCO 1 Megawatt Wind Turbines. The construction of this turbine took place from March 31st 2008 to April 4th 2008 in Lubbock, Texas.

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Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• wind
• turbine
• timelapse
• construction
• green
• power
• generator
• time
• lapse
• crane
• building

[RealationGames]

I was looking for info of what's beneath the ground, specifically how deep does the structure go.

But cool video anyway, thanks. It's amazing how many different videos of anything you can find here.

[tekn0lust]

@RealationGames I think the footer is between 15 and 20 feet deep.

[FROZYO]

What were they using to fasten the pieces? I didn't see it in the video.

[tekn0lust]

@FROZYO The segments are connected by between 50 and 120 very large nut/bolts. They are 5-7 inches long with 2-3 inch nuts.

[t850]

...how big is that mobile crane...

[tekn0lust]

so big that is was brought in on 12 railcars. I took some captures of them disassembling it, unfortunately it rained most of that week and the images did not turn out very well.

I think the crane assembled is over 100 meters tall.

[4saw2]

Even Chernobyl has relatively few directly attributed deaths (about 50), most of which were firefighters who died during building collapse, not radiation exposure. Of those attributed to long term radiation exposure, the number may be closer to 4000.

Of course, if you believe Greenpeace, you'll get numbers more like 500,000. In my experience, these groups are usually wilfully ignorant of reality.

[rasmasyean]

The problem with nuclear is that most people don't want the miniscule chance of getting radiated. They rather have the guaranteed chance of slowly dying by breathing in polution over time.

[TransportationSupply]

Time Lapse is so fun! This video is entertaining to say the least. Construction is an amazing thing.

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[tiolynn1]

loved the video thanks ;-)))

[SmallWindTurbines]

I like the time lapse production, nice.

[ChiefCogaz]

Thanks for posting this video. Its truly incredible how these guys put up such a huge turbine in only 4 days !! Very informative and thanks again.

[towerjd38]

the name of the company is

Wave Wind LLC from Sun prarie Wisconsin the people working on this project were from texas branch