Danish wind turbine explosion slowed down

Not my footage, i just slowed it down. Enjoy!
The braking mechanism that limits the speed of the wind turbine broke during a storm in Denmark. This was the outcome. 02/22-2008.

http://jp.dk/uknews/article1277616.ece

Bonus info:

-The tower of the mill was 60m high
-Wind speed was probably around 30 m/s
-You can see a truck at the base of the mill, but nobody was hurt. The mill had been evacuated 400m in each direction.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• environment
• wind
• power
• windmill
• explosion
• turbine
• slowed
• down
• accident
• denmark
• danish
• german

[mi3pwns]

rawr!

[fergus247]

holy shit, i knew it was godzilla... maybe if you slow it down even further we will now only hear its ROAR but also see it !!

[duknilch]

Made in China!

[asianthor]

Yeah, out of all the other turbines the camera just happen to be pointing on this one when it the "accident" occured.

[DeathQuickClan]

@RerailMe fail in the turbine.

[DeathQuickClan]

@042576705 made in denmark

[042576705]

ha ha ha ,MADE IN China !!!!!!!!!!

[sledhill]

coal power forever. the smoke's pretty

[AGrandt]

@98whiteGSX100 You may be thinking about a different turbine, and I just checked the Danish news sites, no one were injured in this incident. The people working on the turbine when it failed got out in a hurry, and got away safely.

The story is that the turbine actually were spinning for quite some time, while the wind speed were increasing, until it finally failed.

[98whiteGSX100]

@AGrandt well as much as i dont want to say the crew left.. 1 guy made it out 1 guy almost made it out but survived and the 3rd died.. i work in these towers..